Extended
travel packages
Women and Social/
Environmental Justice [7 days / 6 nights]
Day
1: Urban women's issues: Visit women's support organizations.
Day
2 Rural women's issues: Travel to a women's agricultural cooperative
in Northern Costa Rica.
Day
3 Visit the Cooperative's farm and forest and discuss activities
women. Discuss Afro-Costa
Rican culture and women's issues.
Day
4 Depart for the Atlantic region: Visit to a rural women's community project.
Day
5 Visit with another
womenÕs group managing an organic banana farm.
Day
6 Visit Kekoldi
Indigenous Reserve and talk with female leaders. Visit to Cahuita National Park.
Day
7 Return to San José
Caribbean
Overview [7 days/ 6 nights]
Day
1 Conventional banana production and associated social and environmental
problems. Visit "Africa",
one of the oldest Caribbean communities.
Day
2 Cahuita: Caribbean culture and community efforts. Cahuita
National Park- Presentation on community park management.
Day
3 Visit organic banana farm and meet with growers.
Women's association with organic farm and medicinal plant garden.
Day
4 Puerto Viejo. Discussion of impacts of tourism and on the culture, the economy,
and the environment. Visit community recycling center and discuss waste management
issues confronting area.
Day
5 Visit Indigenous
Reserve and discuss the community's efforts to preserve their environment
and culture.
Day
6 Visit Gandoca/
Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge-Costa Rican National Park System.
Day
7 Return to San José.
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