Lily Moon Sustainability Lodge : Camp Tico
On the grounds of Lily Moon Sustainability Lodge, Camp Tico will serve as Lily Moon’s program for disadvantaged kids. Camp Tico is an eco, socially–conscious inspiration & giggle summer camp for 7 to 17–year–old orphans, at–risk youth and children of the growers and artisans we work with globally. The camp will offer a customized Jardín de la Paz (Peace Garden) curriculum for children 7–11 in age and a Jóvenes Sembrando Juntos (Youth Sowing Together) experiential curriculum for youth 12–17 years–old.
Because we believe that multi–cultural experiences further enrich the social and communications skills of children to help prepare them for their interaction in the global village, Camp Tico will also develop an exchange scholarship partnership with youth from Fort Collins, Longmont & Boulder, Colorado.
Young children and older youth participating in the camp’s six–week summer program will be stepping into a supportive environment; a small student–to–teacher ratio with both Costa Rican teachers and visiting US faculty; and an engaging range of eco– socially–conscious and financial educational workshop tracks such as:
- Beekeeping; goat cheese making; humane pet–hen raising for organic eggs; farmer market training.
- Organic vegetable, medicinal herb and tropical fruit gardening.
- Vegetarian cooking lessons.
- Waste reduction, composting & recycling and their relationship to climate change.
- Planting of native vegetation protect and preserve biodiversity in fauna and flora.
- Leadership; oral & verbal communication; English & Spanish lessons.
- Eco, agricultural and indigenous tour guide mini–apprenticeships.
- Financial skills training for daily living applications and for tomorrow’s budding social & sustainable entrepreneurs.
- Astronomy, environmental, alternative energy, and applied physics instruction with relevant mini–labs.
- Computer & Internet literacy training and tutoring of community adults
- Whole kiddo wellness (humor, self–care, health & nutrition, soccer, fitness, yoga, meditation, Pilates, healing touch and massage).
- One–on–one counseling, anger management and peer-to-peer peaceful conflict resolution classes.
- Community service projects; world philosophies; values; compassion; mindfulness
- Self–expression through art, music, dance, singing, poetry and creative writing.
