Tomorrow everyone is welcome at the annual Café Navideño which we are going to host here in Salem, Mindo. Among other things, we will be selling typical German christmas cookies which are a rare specialty here in Ecuador. For the last two weeks, the kids have been busy baking with the German volunteers. We really…

The laptops we use for doing homework are very old, in need of repair and urgently need to be replaced. Please help us to raise the funds to buy 3 new laptops!

Our young artists are painting christmas cards with watercolours to be sold at the Christmas bazaar. The young creatives are in the christmas spirit as one idea after another easily flows onto paper. Come along to Christmas bazaar on Friday and admire their wonderful heartistry!  

We want to say a big THANK YOU to all of our wonderful web wizards who helped in the production of this website over the past few weeks. In order of appearance we would like to thank: Concept: Maren Design: Heike WP: Dave & Armands Journalism: Luzia, Rebecca & Sarah HTML/CSS: Frank Translations: Raphael &…

Meet “El Sam – el tucántor” – Sam the singing Toucan! Sam is a Chestnut mandibled Toucan: The chestnut-mandibled toucan or Swainson’s toucan (Ramphastos ambiguus swainsonii) is a subspecies of the yellow-throated toucan which breeds from eastern Honduras to northern Colombia to western Ecuador. Source: WikiPedia Sam is native in Mindo and can often be heard in the tree tops with his friends singing…