Our thoughts, prayers, and call for action goes out to Costa Rica. A hurricane hit and left many feeling devastated and in need. Community rallies around those impacted and you can help too! Check out https://amigosofcostarica.org/product/help-victims-hurricane-otto-costa-rica/ to support the rebuilding efforts.
Our True Nature friend and Costa Rican native Lindsay shares her first hand account: 
Otto hurricane hits Costa Rica.
This is a sad blog about our country.
We were told we should be ready to head the hurricane, but we never imagined the total definition, what it was meaning.
It rained so hard, it was cold, that was it. No more consequences in our village, but our people in the north of Costa Rica, close from the border of Nicaragua, they had another experience. It was devastating. They lost everything.
The government, the news, the people, they told us we had not permission to go, but many people like us decided not to obey and we went not just to see or to take pictures, we went to help.
We were collecting food and cloth the night before and we also needed to bring tools: Brooms, shovels, pieces of wood and stirs to build something to clean the mud. The night before we saw people swimming on the roads… yes, the roads became rivers when a hill just felt on the main river in town, so a flood as nobody could have expected happened…
Yesterday the mud was in everywhere in that village, located just 2.5 hours away from home. We worked so hard
and we helped as much as possible. The people were so happy to get our cooperation, to receive our donations.
If you have a site to call home, warm blankets, a bed, electricity, pure water and some dry cloth, then you have not reasons to complain… It was the Black Friday in my country. Black and sad because they lost family members, all of their stuff, but I can proudly say they did not loose their hope.
Joshua always asks for a list of supplies he could recommend the volunteers to bring, we are collecting creams, diapers, medicine, soap, shampoo, towels…
We will classify cloth to bring there, beside painting a house in the village.
I am attaching some pictures of the real needs in the district of Upala. You will be safe and happy in our community, helping us to pack happiness and more stuff for us to bring there under your name, bringing hope and love to help them build a new life. A happy life.
