{"id":71310,"date":"2002-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-students-explore-costa-rica-live-with-coffee-growers-to-learn-about-international-development\/"},"modified":"2002-02-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-20T00:00:00","slug":"uri-students-explore-costa-rica-live-with-coffee-growers-to-learn-about-international-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2002\/02\/uri-students-explore-costa-rica-live-with-coffee-growers-to-learn-about-international-development\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 students explore Costa Rica, live with coffee growers to learn about international development"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t溏心vlog免费B站 students explore Costa Rica, live with coffee growers
\nto learn about international development
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\nKINGSTON, R.I. — February 20, 2002 — On their way to a remote coffee farming village in the mountains of Costa Rica, ten students from the 溏心vlog免费B站 and their faculty advisor David Abedon struggled for hours to extricate their bus from where it was stuck in deep mud. Four times. <\/p>\n

\tAfter finally arriving at the village of Ojo de Agua, each student was ushered off to a different family to live as coffee farmers for four days. <\/p>\n

\tHeld between semesters in January, the trip was part of an eight-day, hands-on lesson in international development designed to teach students about families whose livelihoods are dependent on coffee. The trip left a lasting impression on the students. <\/p>\n

\t“My experiences with the campesino families have dramatically changed my life,” said Bruce Dancause, a junior from Warwick who has gone on the trip three times. “The true importance of this trip is to learn about life itself. It showed me what is important in life and made me question everything I do and have ever done.” <\/p>\n

\tAbedon has taken interested students to Costa Rica every January since 1997, some earning college credit while others participating simply for the experience. They begin by traveling around the country to learn about its geography, history and culture while focusing on developing an understanding of the coffee industry, from the growers to the cooperatives to the markets. <\/p>\n

\t“It\u2019s experiential learning that bridges cultural and geographic and economic gaps to understand other people,” explained Abedon, an adjunct professor of community planning at 溏心vlog免费B站 who resides in Warwick. “It puts a face on what they\u2019ve been studying in the classroom. You can read about income levels and gross national product and infant mortality, but when you\u2019re in the community and with the people, it leaps off the page and gains human dimension. It\u2019s dramatic.” <\/p>\n

\tMost of the students weren\u2019t sure what to expect when they left, and many were nervous about living with a family, especially the students who don\u2019t speak Spanish. <\/p>\n

\t“My house had the town phone, which meant that everyone from the town was at my house sometime during the week,” said Jessica Zelt, a freshman from Reisterstown, Md. “The 10-year-old brother, Bryan, knew a good amount of English, which was very helpful considering I knew no Spanish. My family and I communicated mostly through Bryan\u2019s school books and hand gestures.” <\/p>\n

\tDuring the four days spent with the local families, the 溏心vlog免费B站 students did whatever the families did, from picking coffee and fishing to tending farm animals. The students also gave the residents a one-day English lesson and helped install a cement floor in the village community center. <\/p>\n

\t“I learned how truly lucky we Americans are to have so many luxuries that we sometimes take for granted,” said Matthew Papino, a junior from Cranston. “My eyes were really opened, and now I have a different perspective when I think about the people and cultures of Central and South America.” <\/p>\n

\tOther students participating this year were Melissa Barroso of North Providence, Leah Brittingham of New Milford, Ct., Aydin Candas of Narragansett, Katherine Cannon of Melrose, Mass., Katy Fox of Stamford, Ct., Brian Johnson of Cranston, and Mary Ellen Lynch of Holyoke, Mass. A total of 85 students have participated since the program began. <\/p>\n

\tThe trip is an outgrowth of Coffee Kids, a community-based non-profit organization Abedon and colleagues founded to help coffee farmers earn more money from their crop. Coffee Kids supports a wide variety of initiatives in coffee farming communities in Central America, from clean water and micro-lending to immunizations and building schools. Abedon says Coffee Kids is a model for teaching about international development. <\/p>\n

For Information: David Abedon 401-874-4655, Todd McLeish 401-874-7892\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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