The Rich Coast Project joined the Hidden Garden for two days of important sessions on local Afro-Caribbean wellness traditions and a tour of local businesses who are acting as knowledge carriers of customary healing practices.
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Rich Coast Project founder and director Katie Beck visited the Institute for International Business at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University to discuss the project's development and impact on the local community.
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After a successful inaugural trip with the Alternative Break Program from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, RCP Director Katie Beck was invited to Bloomington, Indiana, to share the vision of the growing partnership between the Rich Coast Project and would-be-volunteers from the business school.
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Over the past several years, members of the Rich Coast Project team have been collecting historic photographs and oral history interviews from residents of coastal Talamanca. In order to share the fruits of these efforts back with the community, this year we introduced a new endeavor: the South Caribe Roots Archive.
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Santa Clara law student Brittany Delbridge spent her summer as an intern and research assistant with the Rich Coast Project, helping us conduct community outreach, develop important background research, and develop organizational strategies to help us keep moving forward.
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On July 1, 2015, representatives from several of the area's founding families gathered for an evening of community, music, and food.
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We went to Manzanillo to spend the day with the elders of Cahuita and Sixaola districts of Talamanca, Limón, distributing information about the Rich Coast Project and inviting them to participate in upcoming projects.
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Last March we hosted our first group of student volunteers from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, who joined us in Manzanillo for a week of service and learning through the Kelley Institute for Social Impact's Alternative Break Program.
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Representatives of the Rich Coast Project attended the final presentation of the Legal Skills in a Social Context (LSSC) Program's 2014-2015 Social Justice Project.
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