You can provide a child with everything they need to begin the school year. Each child will receive a backpack, uniform, strong sturdy shoes, and school supplies (pens, pencils, erasers, pencil crayons, geometry sets, etc.). Children are chosen based on their family situation (financial and otherwise) from poor communities with little resources.
Each child receives their package in January to prepare for the start of school in February. Community outreach (songs, dramas, stories, etc.) takes place twice a year in both January and July.
Costa Rica Kids is a School Sponsorship Program where we provide needy children with uniforms, backpacks, all of the school supplies, and shoes in order for them to be able to attend public school. Every January we sponsor over 1,000 children in 30 communities (Turrialba, Limon and Perez areas) in the central and east parts of Costa Rica. We work alongside the Costa Rica Missions Council visiting these communities to assess the needs of the children and most importantly to provide spiritual care for them and their families. The cost per child is only $125 a year! For information about this ministry or to sponsor a child, please click on the links.