On December 7th, 2009 a small meeting took place at La Salle University in San Jose, Costa Rica, with the purpose of signing a collaboration agreement between La Salle Distrito de Centroamérica and Earth Charter International. With this agreement, La Salle commits to disseminate and use the Earth Charter in different ways within its educational institutions (primary and secondary schools, universities and higher education centers) in the Central American region. The collaboration agreement was signed by Otto Armas Bonilla, Provincial Inspector; Mirian Vilela, Executive Director of the Initiative and Brother Oscar Azmitia Barranco, Rector of La Salle University, as honor witness.
La Salle Central America and Panama involves 30 educational institutions (schools and universities). We hope this agreement will evolve into a fruitful cooperative educational relationship. 
The La Salle Institution was founded about 300 years ago by St. John Baptist de La Salle and is now established throughout the world. The Brothers give themselves to the education of children, young people and also mature students. Worldwide they are present in 82 countries, (involving 80.000 educators and more than 5.000 Brothers) and have more than 1000 teaching establishments where 1.000.000 students are educated. For more information about this institution see http://www.lasalle.org
