Hotel La Rosa de America, a Costa Rica Airport Hotel Donates Hundreds of Books to Local Schools

Oct. 22, 2011 - PRLog -- Through the generosity of hundreds of our guests from all over the World, our Costa Rica Airport Hotel is nearing our initial goal of 5,000 books donated to local schools.  Thank you to all who have generously made room in your suitcases for these donations!  

       To have this kind of success in only three and a half years has been a humbling experience for us at Hotel La Rosa and has left many local school Principals amazed at the generosity of people from countries they have only seen on a map!  Though clearly difficult to put a monetary value on these donations, we estimate that the resale value alone in Costa Rica would be in the area of $50,000.00 USD.  Of course, the new book purchase cost for the local school system would be far greater.  

        The great cost of books for Costa Rican Schools means that only the most important books for learning can be purchased.  Novels, picture books etc are very much a secondary concern to having sufficient pens and paper, rulers etc.  Sadly this is resulting in a culture-wide loss of the love of reading.

        With the kind assistance of a local Canadian expat and a local Costa Rican teacher as well as the employees of Hotel La Rosa de America - see http://www.larosadeamerica.com  we have been able to organize, sort into appropriate age groups, source deserving schools, and deliver over 3,500 books so far in English, French and Spanish.  We have also been able to donate large numbers of schools supplies.   Some of the benefit schools, statistics and pictures can be found on our website page devoted to the project.  http://larosadeamerica.com/book-donation-program/   Currently we have approximately 650 further books ready for donation and we are considering donating them directly to the Women's Club of Costa Rica as they have excellent non-profit school programs for Costa Rica Public Schools.

        Again, Hotel La Rosa Ownership and staff wish to thank all the hundreds of La Rosa guests who have participated in this program to date.  We want you to know that your efforts have made a difference in the Alajuela and La Garita communities.   All donated books are stamped as donated by Hotel La Rosa, so that students know and appreciate that people from many foreign countries do care what happens outside their borders.  In the future, we hope to expand the program to include all public schools in Costa Rica, and to team up with a non-profit, charity organization such as the Women's Club of Costa Rica in order to assist with book distribution and to help facilitate this dream.

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