{"id":7069,"date":"2023-02-13T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=7069"},"modified":"2023-02-12T12:11:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T20:11:40","slug":"love-for-ngos-in-belize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2023\/02\/love-for-ngos-in-belize\/","title":{"rendered":"Love for NGOs in Belize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A montage of four photos, each representing one of the NGOs that is highlighted below. The first photo is of a gift shop, the second is of an adorable puppy, the next is of children in a library, and the last is of a natural spring swimming hole in Belize.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and in honor of love, I’m going to show some love for the NGOs I interacted with or noticed while on my recent two-week trip to Belize. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was not volunteering in Belize; I was vacationing. But when I travel, I always do so with a mind to transire benefaciendo<\/a>: “to travel along while doing good.” So here’s a thread to highlight some awesome NGOs I encountered as a tourist in Belize:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Belize Audubon Society<\/a>. They staffed some of the sanctuaries and parks we visited. And staff was always AWESOME. Note: they have volunteering opportunities! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cayo Animal Welfare Society<\/a>. It’s the Humane Society serving San Ignacio \/ Santa Elena and the Cayo District of Belize. I wrote them about a disturbing incident of dog abuse by the people operating a snack shack at Cahal Pech & they promptly wrote back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maya Center Women’s Group<\/a>. They have a cultural center & gift shop at the entrance of Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary. They are local artisans & by purchasing from them, you help sustain their families. They are lovely to talk to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miss Bertie’s Hopkins Community Library<\/a>. We walked by it every day we were in Hopkins, Belize. But I never went in, because it was either closed or OH so busy & I didn’t want to be a bother. But what an important resource!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please show them some love as well: go like some of their Facebook posts. If you can, make a financial donation to any or all of them! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did these groups get my attention? Because I encountered them while visiting a site and they were particularly helpful, because they had a great presence wherever they were located and that presence jumped out at me when I went by, and\/or because I asked them a question online and they responded. Does YOUR nonprofit or NGO meet all of that criteria, wherever it is in the world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And next time you travel, I hope you will consider keeping in mind transire benefaciendo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and in honor of love, I’m going to show some love for the NGOs I interacted with or noticed while on my recent two-week trip to Belize. I was not volunteering in Belize; I was vacationing. But when I travel, I always do so with a mind to transire benefaciendo: “to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[1147,2258,2259,87,100,2261,166,181,10,2260],"class_list":["post-7069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supporting-people-a-community-a-cause","tag-animals","tag-belize","tag-central-america","tag-children","tag-community","tag-conservation","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-ngos","tag-responsible-tourism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-1Q1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7071,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions\/7071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}