School Project La Gamba

Employees of the Tropical Field Station La Gamba have been involved in local developmental aid projects since many years. The school project, which was started in 2003, aims to foster the education of pupils from La Gamba, one of Costa Rica’s poorest communities.
The Tropical Field Station La Gamba currently supports 16 pupils and 3 students enrolled in a colegio (as of March 2020), a type of school that corresponds to an Austrian BHS with vocational education, or a university.   
It is our goal to enable the local population to gain a solid education and thus attain an increase in life quality. Whilst visiting a colegio is free, parents can only rarely afford the costs for class trips, books, school uniforms etc. A contribution of 50 € per month for ten months of school covers the majority of this expenditure. Only pupils with social needs are sponsored, they must attain a certain grade point average during the funding period and stay in contact with their sponsor parents.    
A sponsorship for students costs 100 € per month, ten times a year.

Interested in taking over a sponsorship?

...just write us an email: tropenstation.botanik@univie.ac.at