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  • Community Service Day – The Spirit of Volunteering

    Community Service Day – The Spirit of Volunteering

     

    After a great start to the new school year on August 11, this week we continued our tradition of reaching out and sharing our gifts with our first-of-the-year Community Service Day. Our students divided into 9 groups, each one led by a grade 11/12 student and comprising children of all grades, went out to make a difference.ServiceDay3Aug2015smallFrom maintaining trails in the reserve and cleaning at the CASEM women’s co-operative, to doing yardwork for elder members or picking up garbage and recycling downtown, the children and teachers shared their Joy and service and connected to the community in a fun, hands-on way.ServiceDay2Aug2015small

  • Two Heads are Better than One

    Two Heads are Better than One

    Update: We’re pleased to update this post with the happy news that Debbie Galusha later agreed to stay with MFS. She and Rick are now Co-Directors of the school: Debbie focussing on academics, Rick on External Relations. It’s a fantastic fit, building on each director’s strengths. (more…)

  • Season’s Greetings

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    From the mountains of Costa Rica in the middle of the Cloud Forest, we want to celebrate and bring you our most sincere and joyful Season’s Greetings.

    Desde las montañas de Costa Rica en medio del Bosque Nuboso, queremos celebrar y traer a usted nuestro más sinceros y alegres saludos.

    Monteverde Friends School / Escuela de los Amigos de Monteverde

     

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  • Solar panels were installed at MFS

    Thanks to all the people that made possible the installation of solar panels in our school.  Now, we have an installed capacity of 3 Kilowatt with the potential of expanding it to 4 Kilowatt.

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    Please, check here if you want to contribute to our efforts of greening our school.

  • Celebrating the end of the semester

    On December 12th, 2014 our school and community got together to celebrate the end of the first semester.  Each class did a short presentation (a song, drama or story) and we enjoyed having some of our Friends and community members joining us for such joyful celebration.

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