UNITED WORLD COLLEGE FULLFILS THEIR MISION STATEMENT IN PORT LIMON COSTA RICA

Recently, 12 students and two professors from United World College (UWC) visited Port Limon, where they carried out voluntary service in Balvanero Vargas Park and received a warm welcome from the Mayor.

This organization was founded on 1962 based on the ideas of German educator Kurt Hahn. He thought that a lot could be accomplished to overcome hostility conflict in the world if young people from different nations, races and religions could meet to learn from each other.

It is the only global education movement that reunites students at worldwide level, chosen because of their personal merits regardless of race, religion and political views, with the explicit mission to enhance Peace and international understanding. There are twelve United World Universities in the world; the one in Costa Rica was founded in 2007.

Within the Mayor’s internationalist vision, there is an ambitious project to rescue and repair the infrastructure of the centennial Vargas Park as well as to play an active role in the Limon City Port project, funded by the World Bank and Costa Rica’s Government.

Mayor Barboza, recently visited the People´s Republic of China, within the Framework of the established oficial relations between this country and Costa Rica.