Cayo Scoop! The Ecology of Cayo Culture

Daniel Velazquez is making a documentary about the Belize Wildlife Referral Clinic.  He's been on hand to make most of their short videos dealing with specific wildlife cases.  He upload some of the still shots from working on the documentary.  The students obviously had a great time while doing their study abroad here in Cayo.

"Belize Wildlife and referal clinic, hosted its first international wildlife medicine course, this is a part of its sustanable componant of the clinic, in between shooting video i got some stills, this is part of a 30 minute documentary about the careof wildlife and implementation of this center, film is in post production."

Great news for Succotz, and the Institute for Sustainable International Studies.  

"The Institute for Sustainable International Studies (ISIS) has partnered with the village of Succotz in the Cayo district of Belize. This effort provides students with an opportunity to learn while doing volunteer work that supports the needs and goals of the village. The Village Council, two primary schools and a high school, and other village organizations identify projects while ISIS finds student groups and interns to assist with those projects...

As part of their commitment to education, a group within the village has started a library in Succotz. Students with ISIS, from Shenandoah University and the University of Toronto, brought books to donate to the library, reflecting the cultures and literature from their area.

In February, the University of Toronto sent 10 students and a professor who focused their time in Belize on the village of Succotz. After an introduction to Belize, Cayo and Succotz, the students explored the issue of youth and nutrition."

The Institute for Sustainable International Studies answers the question, "Why study abroad in Belize?" 

"Their activities included visits to the Belize Zoo, the Community Baboon Sanctuary, Belize Bird Rescue, Cahal Pech, Caracol and Xuanantunich Maya archaeological sites, and government agencies such as Beltraide, the Belize Tourism Board and the Protected Areas Conservation Trust...The work of students and interns who visit Belize, benefit Belizean organizations and communities in several ways: through the generation of new ideas, by providing time and effort to carry out locally defined projects and by the donation from ISIS of part of their tuition to support the organizations they visited and worked with."