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For the love of fire

Heat explodes in the mouth: he laughs as understanding dawns over a visitor's face when she recognizes that what she is tasting is a...

For the love of water

It’s a miracle that rivers exist at all. That’s what don Hernán Ramírez Alfaro has to say, with the song of running water behind his...

A day in the life of a master chocolatier

In the early hours of the morning, the noise of an ATV fills the hills of Turrubares and announces that Yorleny Cubillo, the chocolatier...

For the love of the air

Who makes the air we breathe?  Trees, of course. But who keeps the trees from being cut down? Do we recognize those people? Do they...

For the love of the soil

Why do they love the soil? Because it gives them freedom. So many people in this world don’t even have a place to plant...

They are the school

Rebeca. Ariel. Ingrid. Gabriela. Silvia.  Rebeca surrounds herself in flashcards and pens and laminated charts, even if she is the only one who can touch...

‘My advice is to hang on tight’

Costa Rica lost an iconic figure in conservation and rural ecotourism on March 23, when Rafael Gallo Palomo died after a long illness. We...

Those who feed our children

What did you eat for your schoolroom lunches? Chicken and garbanzos on top of white rice in a crowded city school? Spoon-shaped orbs of melon...

When a parent is the teacher

The curtain is drawn back for us, though at the time, it seems quite dull: long, hopeful hours in the classroom before the year...

The power of a teacher’s gaze

What is the most important part of a teacher?  What about her gaze? Bullying starts in silence. In subtleties. It’s glances, murmurs, a passed note, a...
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What to consider when creating a journalism hiring policy

At El Colectivo 506, Costa Rica’s national solutions journalism organization, has decided to create and share our new hiring policy openly in hopes of...
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