Sunday, 1 February 2009

Alpha Nine – Conte Burika – La Carona

And finally, off to Conte Burika near Panama, we have Alpha Nine...

Olivia Andersen
Florentine Bodewes
Joe Bogle
Davis Calvo
Richard Cornwell
Thomas Dickson
William Jaffray
Chloe Jenkins
Ivan Perez
Mark Pluck
Joanna Scott
Verity Smith
Kyran Weir
Project Managers James Burnham and Kirsty, and Medic Helena will be leading Alpha 9 who will be based in La Carona, in the Conte Burika Indigenous Reserve, which is situated on the remote Burika peninsula near the Panamanian border. The community is extremely remote – to get there you have to walk 8-hours along a beach and then up into the hills behind.

The Ngobe (or Guaymi) Indigenous people who live there are subsistence farmers who maintain the cultural traditions of their ancestors. Currently there is secondary school in the indigenous reserve built by Raleigh in 2006. Alpha 9 will be building a Comedor, or dining hall for the school so that school can gain funding from the government to provide free meals for the pupils. .
Posted by Our mission at 15:42

32 comments:

  1. Anonymous1 February 2009 at 16:52

    Hi Joe
    Sounds like you are on an amazing project. Good to see you arrived safely and luggage finally caught up with you! Snowing here - so you are in the right place! This blog is a fantastic way to keep in touch with what you are up to over there.
    Love Mum x

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  2. Anonymous2 February 2009 at 10:20

    Joe

    Hope you enjoyed the fat trek into Conte Burika. Enjoy building the Comedor, I am sure youll love it. Tell me how it goes when you get back to Turrialba!

    Good Luck Mate

    Scott

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  3. Anonymous4 February 2009 at 02:37

    Hi Olivia

    Hope you are having a fantastic time. Thinking of you. Love Gill Rob Emma and Josh

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  4. Jules4 February 2009 at 08:52

    Hey Joe baby!!

    Looks like you got there safe and sound!! Ready to take camp by storm!! Looking forward to your updates to see what you are doing!! I am so jealous - you are gonna have major fun (and hard work of course. Happy walking, just don't get lost, haha.

    The Broons xxxxxx
    Julie, Stephen & Melissa

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  5. Jules4 February 2009 at 08:55

    Hi there Joe!! Looks like you're in for a fabtastic time - I am sooooooooo jealous!! Keep us in the loop with your adventures, I'll just pretend and lead my life through you for a short time, haha. Melissa sends you a huge hug!!

    The Broonsxx

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  6. Unknown4 February 2009 at 12:46

    hahahaha joe you look funny

    missing you lots.

    lauren x

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  7. Unknown4 February 2009 at 12:54

    also to joe...

    you wont get my facebook reply but we all went zip wiring today 800 metress across the jungle was so scary but so fun! you and harry need to do it if you can.

    love you lots and lots and miss you everyday

    big kiss lauren x

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  8. Anonymous4 February 2009 at 14:09

    Hi Kyran You will have set off on your journey by now so not sure when you will get this. We all look forward to checking out the blog each day and have spotted you in a few photo's mostly of you laughing, which is great. Dad has let aunty collette know about the blog so don't be suprised if you start getting messages from your cousins. Have fun. Love you lots Mum and Dad xxxxxx

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  9. Anonymous6 February 2009 at 06:21

    Hi Chloe , you look great on the photo , really lovely to see you . I 'm sure its fab and we're all missing you . Dad keeps asking if you want to stay longer , so let us know ,if you can . Your proper driving licence has come , scary ! Booschy even tried to call you yesterday , then remembered you were'nt there . Take care and lots of love Mum and Dad p.s use sun cream

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  10. Anonymous6 February 2009 at 18:48

    Hey Richie, the website is fantastic. We love the updates and photos and are very impressed with Raleigh's organisation. All well here but extreme temperatures and the smell of bushfires. Melbourne expecting 46 today! We attended the HA Assembly and got your awards. Ivan, Arnab and Ovens asking after you and Mark R sends best wishes - stoked and wants you in forward centres. Registration in hand. Arnab and JT coaching younger teams. Angus made awesome comment at Maria's debate and brought house down. Welcome to sawmilling. look after your back and hands. Much love, Mum & Dad

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  11. Anonymous7 February 2009 at 06:33

    Hi Thomas, hope you're well and having fun. have started half term, going over to edin tonight with 11 friends, should be good. hope your spanish is a bit better than mine. love from everyone here, cuck xxxxxx

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  12. Anonymous7 February 2009 at 11:42

    Hi joe, MUG!
    theo

    ps. ur car is covered in 5 inches of snow.

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  13. Anonymous7 February 2009 at 14:12

    Hi Vee, dad passed on the link - its great to be updated with your adventure and to be able to pass on warmest wishes too. Incredible experience for you, daunting at times no doubt. You have much to share there. Love and prayers, Kath xx

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  14. Anonymous8 February 2009 at 13:11

    rock on kyran! you're the best, keep going! we all hope you do well! You rock

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  15. Anonymous9 February 2009 at 04:53

    Hi Coco evil pog calling sure you have seen the snow here in blighty -for 3 days London stood still and it was like christmas again --no work and to much time in the pub!-Hope the you are enjoying the beans and porridge -lots of love Pog--let us know about flight change a.s.a.p

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  16. Anonymous10 February 2009 at 02:41

    hoi, hier een berichtje vanuit Haren,waar het vannacht heeft gesneeuwd.
    Op de site allemaal lachende foto's, hoop dat je ook hier geniet. we blijven aan je denken.

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  17. Anonymous11 February 2009 at 06:19

    Hello Richie. Just to let you know that although the bushfires in Victoria are the worst ever, with around 200 dead, Sydney is quite OK. We hope the project is going well and that all your group are having a wonderful time.
    Mum & Dad

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  18. Anonymous11 February 2009 at 09:50

    Lieve Floor!! Ik heb je niet meer gesproken helaas maaaar fijn dat je zusje deze site heeft doorgestuurd! HEEEL VEEEL PLEZIER DAAR< ik ben jaloers en ik mis je, maar je hebt het vast superleuk:)! Ik hoop dat je dit te lezen krijgt, anders probeer ik het volgende keer in het engels... Un beso grande!! Elientje

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  19. Anonymous12 February 2009 at 03:15

    Hi Chloe , rally worried you won't get this as last one didn't go through . Anyway still trying ! Miss you loads read blog all the time , new pic of you today ! Looking ggod . Miss you loads and hope you're having the bestest time . bE HAPPY , LOVE YOU ALWAYS MUM XXXX

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  20. Anonymous12 February 2009 at 13:38

    heyy floorie, i hope that you are having a good time there and that everything is fine, i check the blog almost everyday but i havent seen u on the pictures, missing u!!, take care alot, see u soon.
    felipe xxxx

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  21. Jules12 February 2009 at 14:39

    Joe -

    Just think about all those chocolate raisins you are missing - atleast you have the coco, oat & condensed milk balls!! fancy getting a long lie in the other day - talk about life of luxury, haha

    Big thumbs up!!

    The Broons

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  22. Anonymous13 February 2009 at 11:01

    Olivia :)
    Hope you're having a really good time...i miss you lots. and lots.
    xxx

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  23. Anonymous17 February 2009 at 02:08

    Hoi Floor, hoe is het ermee?Ik ben een beetje ziek in de vakantie, nu gaan we niet naar het dolfinarium. Maar met josefien en loek gaat het wel goed. Heb je daar al veel vriendjes en vriendinnetjes? groetjes en een dikke kus van jan xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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  24. Anonymous17 February 2009 at 06:25

    Hi Richard 'Aunty' Honey says hello from the UK & glad to see that you are all having a great time & doing so well. Max sent the info to us so we could get an idea of your experience. Looks like a marvellous idea and cause - wish we had something like that here for us geriatrics - but it would probably be somewhere unpleasant - wet & cold! Good luck for the rest of the posting & we shall be keeping an eye out. All the best from Bev & the gang. PS How is the guitar playing going?

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  25. Anonymous17 February 2009 at 13:52

    hello Jo from us all in Norfolk

    Reading your Blog whilest eating fish pie in front of the aga. Cold and wet outside. Take lots of pictures to show us.

    Tom - Knackered from late night lambing
    Uncle Bill - knacked from day time lambing
    Laura
    Aunty Rachel- exhausted from looking after this lot.
    Granny - feeling sprightly

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  26. Anonymous18 February 2009 at 10:25

    Allerliefste dochter van me!
    Wat ziet het er allemaal fantastisch uit.
    We verheugen ons op zondag dat we eventjes op msn bij kunnen kletsen. Hier vieren we onze non-skivakantie. 1/3 zit er bijna op!
    Heel veel liefs,
    mama

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  27. Anonymous19 February 2009 at 15:18

    He Florentientje,
    Vanuit een koud Nederlandje genieten we van de dagelijkse bijgewerkte webblog van Raleigh.
    Was vast even schrikken met de schorpioenen.Hier alles oke. Liefs mama.

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  28. Anonymous19 February 2009 at 15:27

    Richie Hi
    O'Gimmea and I are delighted to hear you are enjoying yourself and Costa Rica so much - that said, O'Gimmea has done nothing but pester me incessantly about not being able to go with you. I've explaiend that he is just a tad overweight for such an adventure, to which he muttered something like - I wasn't too heavy for him to take me to Bondi. He also said that since he's never been on a horse that travelling by horseback to Conte Burika La Carona was something he'd have enjoyed - I told him he's just far too short for horse riding and that he'd have to go side saddle which he'd find very uncomfortable and he'd probably lose his head. I also suggested that the food in Costa Rica might not be to his taste!! The 5 cent pieces are slowly mounting up in your absence -
    Keep enjoying yourself, know you are missed
    Judi and O'Gimmea

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  29. Anonymous20 February 2009 at 14:43

    Hi Thomas
    I hope you are having a veeery cool time, and hope you are having heaps of fun... bet you are and meeting lots of amazing people too. I'm still on half term which is really nice it was VERY funny this afternoon because we were moving the sheep and they were not happy about it, and kept ramming into angus! thinking of you lots and sending lots of love camelia xxxx

    hey cuz, hope you're having a top time. you're probably an expert harmonica player by now, or maybe not. I can now drink beer legally which is fantastic news. looking forward to big night in the wheatsheaf when you get back... as long as it is before five to 11 obviously.
    x angus

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  30. Anonymous22 February 2009 at 07:34

    Hey joe.

    I hope you got my radio message that I sent out to you the other day.

    If not here - this is my flight number; IB6313. Iberia airlines.
    From Madrid too San Jose: Arrival time in Costa Rica is 16.15pm.
    So should be at arrivals at 5pm.

    Have also booked our first night in SJ. Dom gave me the best place to stay from his travel book. So that is cool.

    See u on Thursday mate.
    Harry.

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  31. Anonymous23 February 2009 at 04:08

    Kyran,

    Glad to see you are working hard! I will be expecting you to come in and tell me all about it when you return to the UK. Maybe you can inspire some of 12JK to do something positive with their time too!

    JK

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  32. Anonymous7 March 2009 at 14:00

    hoi lieve nicht, we zoeden nog een keer naar het bal gaan...Is het daar warm? ik ben van de fiets gevallen.heel veel lieve kusjes van josefienxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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