Alumni Impact

De la mano con el caficultor. Under this slogan – meaning “hand-in-hand with the coffee farmer” – Terence Fuschich (’98, Honduras) has worked to sustainably boost small growers’ crop yields and improve their lives. Terence is a manager at Compañía Hondureña del Café S.A. (COHONDUCAFÉ), a company founded by his family that has commercialized and […]

Within the EARTH community, there are endless warm words to describe the legacy and the indelible mark that professors Pánfilo Tabora and Leslie Villalobos left in the hearts and memories of the graduates who passed through their classrooms. Both were characterized by their eternal smile and enormous humility. We can all agree: Pánfilo and Leslie […]

EARTH is always looking to create new alliances with different entities within and outside of Costa Rica in order to expand its work, bring about greater transformation in rural communities around the world, and give new opportunities to young people who carry with them the promise of becoming leaders of change. In 2021, the participation […]

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David and Daniel Villegas (‘08 & ‘04, Colombia) are brothers, and both are EARTH graduates. In 2011 they launched the Salvaterra Foundation, an organization that develops projects to promote food security in Colombia. Since COVID-19 began impacting their community, they have focused their energy on quickly implementing urban garden projects that can provide access to […]