Two of the comments on last week’s posts asked about the kids.
Ellen Sporn asked:
“Sounds like you’re developing a plan. Where will the children come from?”
MSK: The children will come from the village of San Francisco de Tortuguero.  San Francisco is a “suburb” of Tortuguero, which is about as remote as you can get. You [...]

For years I have been trying to solve the puzzle of how to have guests who are only spending two or three days at our Lodges effectively help local kids learn English.
I quickly found out that the methodology for teaching was simple enough to learn in a few minutes, but what has had me stymied [...]

Last week’s post, How Travelers Can Help Local People, an Alternative to Conventional Voluntourism, sparked some very strong feelings and provocative comments.
I am going to post 2 of the comments below.
Both of the comments come from people who are new to the blog, Costa Rica Expeditions and our lodges.  So I have now learned that [...]

I want to get your reaction to an idea, but first I need to give you some background.
Voluntourism, travel designed to facilitate guests helping local people by volunteering their time is considered to be one of the biggest growth areas in travel.
A year ago April a post on voluntourism.org suggested that incentive travel is  “potential [...]