Help Give HOPE - Our Needs in Costa Rica

For the various construction and repairs that we do and want to build around the farm, we need various tools. These can be purchased and brought in a suitcase or they can be purchased here, but it is more expensive to buy here. 

The best brand to be durable and find replacement brushes and batteries and things like that, is DeWalt as it is sold and serviced here in Costa Rica. This becomes a big deal when parts wear out and cannot be replaced easily or quickly.

Tools that are on our wish list right now are:

Cordless Drill

Cordless Impact drill

Chop saw

Table saw

Band saw

Our horses and the therapy they provide are the backbone of our project. We are the only Free residential trauma and addiction recovery in the World that is using Natural Horsemandship training methocs and Equine Therapy as a major part of our therapy program.

With your help, we can keep this Free so the homeless and poor can recieve the therapy they so desperatly need. We don’t want to be just your average Free low-end recovery center. We want to the best in the World. You can help us by adopting and sponsoring a specific horse that you choose.

$150 per month will provide all the hay, grass, pasture, grain, minerals and vitamins, vaccines, dewormer and routine veterinary care that our horses need. Please choose one now and support this horse’s needs. 

Click the box on this page to make a monthly donation of $150.

We are really in need of a used 4×4 pick-up truck for work around the farm and many reasons. We can buy hay for about $1.00 per bale cheaper if we pick it up ourselves. We need to pull a trailer to move our horses, cows and other livestock around for various reasons. We are currently buying 800 pounds of animal grains per week and are having to use our passenger van to pick it up or pay a truck to have it delivered. When we have a truck, we will be able to pick up donated torn sacks of animal feed that we can’t pick up in our passenger van. 

We would like it to be a Toyota truck because this is by far the easiest to find repair parts for and also is the strongest for our rough roads in Guanacaste, our province. Vehicles in Costa Rica cost nearly double what they cost in North America. We would like to budget between $20,000 and $25,000 for a used Toyota 4×4 crew cab, manual transmission truck in good mechanical condition.

The used saddles we bought 10 years ago to start our horse tours have worn out and need to be replaced. They will last much longer if they are made of synthetic materials due to the salt water that we ride our horses in. These are also much lighter weight to bring in a suitcase.

Most of our saddles were bought used/pre-owned on Ebay or from Facebook marketplace. The most common brands we like to use are either Wintec or Big Horn.

Most tourists prefer to ride in a western style saddle, but we do have many that actually request or prefer the English type of saddle. We can use any size saddle from childrens’ to large adult size.

If you can find anyone that will donate any type of saddle, I’m sure we can use it if you can get it to Costa Rica. 

For detailed information about buying our farm land click here: About our farm land

Our monthly budget is $8,000 per month (budget available on request). If you divide that amount by the 12 men that we usually have in recovery at one time, it is approximately $650 per month for each man. We would love to find individuals, church groups, organizations or corporations that would be willing to sponsor one man monthly.  Click the box to make a monthly donation.

There are many different types personal items that our men need. Below is a list of items we always can use. Most of our men arrive very thin from drug use or the homeless lifestyle, but we can use all sizes of everything.

• Shirts- T-shirts, tanks and dressier button or polo type shirts for church or job interviews
• Shorts- Casual elastic waist shorts, cargo shorts and dressier type shorts
• Swim trunks
• Socks- sport type, dress socks and calf high to wear with rubber work boots in the rainy season
• Underwear- for daily use stretchy boxer briefs are the most commonly worn or boxers
• Shoes- tennis shoes, men’s sandals or flip flops, dress shoes, steel toed work boots, or a real favorite; cowboy boots. Used shoes are very welcome.
• Work gloves from gardening type to welder’s gloves and heavy duty work gloves
• Deodorant, colognes, toothbrushes, toothpaste, bath soap, shampoo, razors, shaving cream, hair gel, etc.
• Vitamins of any type from multiple vitamins, Vitamin C, B-complex, Vitamin E, magnesium/potassium, melatonin, thiamin, etc.
• Pain and cold/flu medicines of any type. Naproxen sodium, ibuprofen, acetaminophen, Nyquil day and night time, cough drops, zinc throat lozenges, etc.

We are very limited to how many bales of hay we can buy at one time because we don’t have a place to store it to keep it dry. When we can buy in larger quantities, we can get a cheaper price due to the delivery charges. 

We would like to build a solid building with a large roof so that even in blowing/driving rain, we can keep our hay dry. 

We are just about completed with the structure of our new kitchen. Soon we will need commercial style kitchen appliances and equipment to outfit it with. Our idea is to watch for restaurants going out of business and selling their used equipment at a deep discount. Below are some of the items that we will be needing to outfit our kitchen.

• Large Chest freezer
• Overhead stove/oven ventilator
• Gas stove and oven
• Stainless steel food prep tables
• Good kitchen knives and cutting boards
• Stainless steel shelving
• Commercial strength blender
• Deep stainless steel sinks
• Ventilating fans

We have created a safe place to mount a large screen Smart TV to use for our weekly Saturday night movie and to participate in  recovery classes online. 

On rainy Sunday afternoons, when the guys that don’t have family visiting can’t go to the beach, we let them watch wholesome inspiritng movies on Netflix. 

If you go out fishing and have the good fortune to catch more fish than you can eat, our men would be ecstatic to eat fresh fish! If you want to buy food, the most used food items the men eat are:

• white rice
• dry black beans
• coffee
• cooking oil
• sugar
• chicken consommé
• any cooking spices
• spaghetti or pasta of any type
• spaghetti sauce
• canned tuna
• any type of meat, chicken or fish
• any type of fruit
• Kraft macaroni and cheese in box

We love to plant any type of herbs, vegetables, fruits or even ornamental plants in our gardens. Please bring us any type of seeds that you wish and we will be very grateful for them!

Our project is currently funded by horse tours and farm tours. You can help tremendously by helping us buy or find wood for signs, and come and help us paint them. 

We also need people that will go with one or two of our guys and a ladder and cordless drill to hang up signs in varioius strategic places around town. 

Every Tuesday night, rain or shine, we are feeding the homeless in Playas del Coco at 7:15. You are welcome to join us. Please message us for the exact location.

Our monthly budget is $8,000 per month (budget available on request). If you divide that amount by the 12 men that we usually have in recovery at one time, it is approximately $650 per month for each man. We would love to find individuals, church groups, organizations or corporations that would be willing to sponsor one man monthly.  Click the box to make a monthly donation.

We often to need clean up trash on Ocotal beach and surrounding areas that people leave. We would be happy to have your help. 

Or, if you’d like something a little more rugged and adventuresome, you can help us clear our horse trails from low-hanging branches or fallen trees. Our horse trails in the jungle often need regular maintenance.

We are very limited to how many bales of hay we can buy at one time because we don’t have a place to store it to keep it dry. When we can buy in larger quantities, we can get a cheaper price due to the delivery charges. 

We would like to build a solid building with a large roof so that even in blowing/driving rain, we can keep our hay dry. 

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 We have some Square Foot gardens whose wooden frames have rotted and need to be replaced. Help us purchase the wood and put the new boxes together and then paint them. We love to plant any type of herbs, vegetables or fruits in our gardens. If you have some seeds available, bring them and we’ll plant and label the gardens together. 

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