Initiatives In Favour
Of Environment And Culture Receive Awards
(InfoWeb Press) A total of US$20.000 will be
distributed amongst nine Costa Rican
projects which where selected as the winners
of the 10th edition of the Ford Motor
Company´s Conservation and Environment
awards.
The awards ceremony will take place at the
Nacional Automotriz NASA edifice, a branch
company of Ford in Costa Rica. The ceremony
will be graced by the presence of Rita Solís,
Corporate Communications manager for Central
America and the Caribbean, in conjunction
with the Minister of Environment, Energy and
Telecommunications, Mr. Jorge Rodríguez and
Tim Lattimer, appointed by the United States
Embassy in Costa Rica as the person in
charge of environmental concerns; amongst
other special guests.
Rita Solís, Corporate Communications manager
for Central America and the Caribbean for
the Ford Motor Company, stated that “it is a
pleasure for Ford to complete ten years
dedicated to supporting Costa Ricans who are
preoccupied with environmental conservation
and cultural topics. We are proud to state
that our desire to continue with these
initiatives is proportionate to the
increased compromise shown by the population
itself, in hopes of a better future for all,
which is reflected in the 109 projects which
we received for this edition.
Selecting the winning projects was not an
easy task for the jury since participants
demonstrated high levels of practical value,
dedication and originality in their
contribution to environment and culture. The
nine wining projects are categorized as
follows; under the Conservation and
Environmental Education category, the
projects are: Benicio Echeverri Salazar and
his project “ Tire Walls, Economic solutions
for families of limited means”; Víctor Hugo
Montalvo Jiménez, with “ Teaching Children
through play: the environmental problem
which our home, the Earth, faces”; the
Asociación por Rescate Animal de Puntarenas
with its project “ Healthy Animals, Healthy
Environment”; Yaguará, with “Benefits for
local people and the conservation of the
jaguars through better cattle gracing
practices in the Osa Peninsula”; and the
Hagnauer Foundation´s project “Implementing
a disabled person accessible nature trail at
the Centro de Rescate Las Pumas”.
In the Conservation and Cultural Heritage
Education category the jury chose three
winners: the Asociación Artística Ramonense
with the publishing of the book Maderas y
xilografías de Álvaro Acosta Rodríguez; the
Finca Educativa Kan Tan S.C. With their
project “ Rescuing the traditional Brunka
abode”, and the Fundación para la
Conservación y el Desarrollo Chorotega (FUNDECHO)
for their project aimed at searching for
fairness in the work force for teachers of
indigenous languages in conjunction with the
MEP for the reinforcement and dissemination
of the autochthonous languages of Costa
Rica.
In the conservation engineering category the
winner was Fernando Orozco Vargas with his
project, “Designing systems to collect and
make water potable in the region of
Talamanca”.
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