Community Outreach

TFI
Tropical Forestry
Initiative

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Forest Restoration

The Preserve

Guanacaste Day

Playing in a waterfall

Dinner with the neighbors

Tres Piedras ("Three Stones") is a pleasant community of about 70 people who live along a road parallel to the River Guabo. It is somewhat isolated due to the poor roads and lack of telephone service, so everyone is a neighbor.

There is a small school, and a community gathering place, which includes a bull ring (for riding, not bullfighting). TFI staff and students have an opportunity to interact with the people of the community in a number of ways. Some of the the things that have been done include:

Teaching English at the school

Practicing Spanish

Teaching restoration and land use

Playing with the kids in the river

Raising tilapia in our pond and helping the neighbors set up their own

Bull riding

Participating in fiestas

Eating snacks at the "Potpouria"

Thinning out trees

Making furniture from the trees

and on and on