El Zota Collaboration Campus
Costa Rica
The Refuge Project is partnering with El Zota Biological Research Stationto create a multi group campus. We are bringing together groups with the common goal of supporting international refugees, humanitarian aid workers, humanitarian aid and environmental response groups, and a center for international university students to come and pursue ecological studies and solutions to the climate crisis. This list will grow as we partner with more groups over time as we welcome more like minded people into our combined efforts and campus.
We are partnering with El Zota, a biological field station. Located approximately 6 miles from the Caribbean ocean just south of the Barra del Colorado Wildlife Preserve, El Zota is ecologically diverse, including secondary forest, rivers, and existing infrastructure. There is enough space here for hosting conferences and classes that help create solutions and movement.
The Refuge Project
We are building a site that will be able to fully host all our disaster responder and humanitarian aid worker support programs, as well as our efforts to find further opportunities for respected service for veterans in those fields. We are building both temporary and long term housing for our humanitarian heroes so there is always somewhere for us to go in between our efforts in the field. The current training we have is basic skills in construction, logistics, medical response, and self management in an ongoing crisis. We will expand our curriculum as we partner with more trainers and the demand for those classes increases.
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