Help Escuela Caracol keep costs down by donating goods from our Wish List.
To make a donation of any of the following items (can be second-hand), or to help in any other way, please contact us. We appreciate donations at all times.
Right now we are in need of the following:
Facilities
- Pressurization system to protect water supply for the primary grades ($1,500)
- Build 2 waterless compost bathrooms for the Kindergarten ($800)
- Stove with oven ($700)
- Refurbish 30 classroom desks ($200)
- Modify 3 classrooms to improve acoustics ($500)
- Fence repair ($40/meter)
- Build 2 rooms to provide lodging for visiting teachers and volunteers ($7,000)
- Review of the electrical system (click here to see to technical proposal) ($100/day)
Classrooms
- 10 guitars for music class ($1000)
- Gardening supplies – watering cans, gloves, garden hose, child-size shovels, wheelbarrows, hoes, etc. ($500)
- Handwork supplies for crafts ($500)
- Art supplies ($500)
- 10 desks/seats for kids ($50/set)
- Lyra colored pencils (red, yellow, blue, orange, green, purple, black and brown) – 40 sets in total
- Stockmar watercolor paints, 250 ml containers (especially lemon yellow)
- Projector
- Brang Gallery colored chalk
- Paint brushes (as shown in this link)
- Colored silks for Kindergarten
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Waldorf dolls
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Felting needles
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Wooden toys, especially with moving parts (i.e. windmills, balances, carts, helicopters)
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Pentatonic lyre
Office
- 2 second-hand MacBooks ($600)
- Photocopier ($800)
Others
- Donate your airline miles: help send our teachers to their annual training program in nearby countries