Plenty Project

For over a decade, the Parish of Saint Paul has been collecting and recycling return for deposit bottles and cans to support Plenty's work in Barranco Belize. Saint Paul's commitment is $100 per month (2000 recycled containers). This commitment is consistently met through the recycling efforts of parishioners at Saint Paul's, the recycling done by Stafford Street Church in Jamaica Plain, the bottles and cans collected at Bowen Elementary School in Newton and (new this year, but not quite up and running yet) the recycling efforts of students and parents at Newton South High School.

Click here for more information about Plenty's philosophy and mission. Click here for an overview of Plenty's projects in Belize. We trust you will agree with our friends in this organization that if we are all willing to share "There is more than enough to go around. In fact there is PLENTY!"

Before Saint Paul's made the ongoing monthly commitment to help with the school garden project, our focus with Plenty was to support the development of Ecotourism as a sustainable industry in Belize and as a vehicle for North Americans to get better acquainted with our Central American neighbors. Plenty was instrumental in helping the Toledo Ecotourism Association (TEA) in its efforts to develop a way for North Americans to visit Belize in an intimate and ecologically friendly way. Click here for the TEA website. Unlike many tour programs which are owned by American or European ex-patriots or larger corporate interests, the TEA is owned and operated by an association of Mopan, Kek'chi and Garifuna Villages. This association enables the local people of the Toledo District to plan, control and profit directly from ecotourism. Click here for more info about the TEA. The TEA offers a unique tour of Southern Belize. Anyone who wants to visit our school garden project in Barranco, stay in the homes of Toledo District residents, take a guided tour of the Rainforest and come home with a whole new view of this part of the world is invited to contact the TEA through their website.