History and Mission of SCLC
Founded in the mid-1990s by the Holbrook family and Selva Verde Lodge, the SCLC is today a fully independent US and Costa Rica registered non-profit organization. The SCLC’s mission is to link communities and conservation through education and ecotourism in the Sarapiquí region of Costa Rica’s northern lowlands. The SCLC is run by an executive director and a mix of local and international staff, both salaried and volunteer. An national and international board of directors works to support Costa Rica-based staff.
The SCLC focuses its efforts in four areas — environmental education, community development, conservation, and tourism — in order to help form future environmental leaders, raise the organizational capacity of local communities, promote sustainable land use, and connect tourists to the local community. Our programs serve hundreds of local people and thousands of ecotourists each year. These programs include environmental education, ecotourism activities, English classes, ecology club, community outreach, women’s group, high school scholarship fund, community census, and GIS mapping.
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Seeking Environmental Education Coordinator |
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We are currently seeking an Environmental Education Coordinator and Ecotourism Coordinator to start in January 2010.
For more information go to Environmental Education Program
or Ecotourism Program
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE CONTACT Volunteer Program Coordinator.
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The Sarapiquí Conservation Learning Center is greatly appreciative of all the support it receives from our various donors. The SCLC team would again like to extend a special thank-you out to a few groups in particular who have worked extra hard to provide donations to the Center's programs this year:
The SCLC thanks the Avalon School from Alberta, Canada for their generous donation for a new computer lab and toward sponsoring 2 students for the High School Scholarship program totaling approximately $9000 USD.
In addition, earlier in the year the SCLC was fortunate to have the dedicated group from the Ambassadors for Children donate a considerable amount of funds, time, and effort toward helping to build additional classrooms in the elementary school of Bajos de Chilamate which constitutes one of the 7 target communities in which we work.
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