Community
Our community events offers students the opportunity to participate in hands-on projects, connect with others, and develop valuable skills – all while making a positive impact. These meaningful experiences empower young minds and helps shape future leaders!
Eco Kids Camp
Creating and Nurturing a Legacy
5 Days and Nights of Eco-Learning and Adventure.
The Belize Rainforest Retreat hosts a weeklong Eco Kids Cultural Scholarship Summer Camp for 24 Belizean School children to nurture a conservation legacy and love for nature. During the camp, the children learn about biodiversity, natural resource conservation, the ancient Maya, traditional healing, and the three “R’s” Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.
The program aims to instill memorable values that will impact the way children and teenagers conduct their lives, their relationship with our fragile Earth, and the sustainable development of our future.
Activities include hiking to ancient Maya sites where archeological excavations are performed and horseback riding through Jungle Trails while studying the Medicinal Flora within our 500-acre private Nature Reserve. Songwriting and talent show sessions are also conducted alongside sustainable organic farming techniques and supervised water activities.
Pack A Pound
Vacation with a purpose.
Our Pack A Pound Program invites you to exchange a pound of your luggage items to pack school supplies for our children. These items are then packed and taken to the schools and villages in rural and urban areas.
School Supplies that can be sent include but are not limited to:
- Arts and Crafts Materials
- Colored Pencils
- Exercise Books
- Reading Books
- Pencils
- Pens
Butterflies on the Road
Taking Conservation Education to Schools!
Our environmental Education Outreach program takes environmental education directly to schools and many special events throughout Belize. Our Naturalist Guides take our Blue Morpho, Malachite, and Owl Butterflies to schools in nearby communities to teach the importance of conservation while utilizing the butterflies as ambassadors of our ecosystem.
This unique initiative started in 2004 and has been part of our conservation efforts since 1993 when soil export Charles Wright introduced the winged creatures to the foothills of the Maya Mountains.
