Pillars of Hope

{{Short description|Specialty boarding school in Costa Rica}}{{Infobox school

| established = 2004{{cite news |title=Academy Owner Declared Innocent |url=https://ticotimes.net/2007/02/23/academy-owner-declared-innocent |access-date=11 March 2024 |work=The Tico Times {{!}} Costa Rica News {{!}} Travel {{!}} Real Estate |date=23 February 2007}}

| founder = Narvin Lichfield{{cite news |title=Academy Owner Declared Innocent |url=https://ticotimes.net/2007/02/23/academy-owner-declared-innocent |access-date=11 March 2024 |work=The Tico Times {{!}} Costa Rica News {{!}} Travel {{!}} Real Estate |date=23 February 2007}}

| website = https://web.archive.org/web/20050426221407/http://www.pillarsofhope.com/

}}

Pillars of Hope (called Pilares de Esperanza in some advertisements) is a specialty boarding school in Costa Rica, located on the former site of the Academy at Dundee Ranch that was shut down by the Costa Rican government in 2003.[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120915072615/http://caica.org/Tough-Love%20article%2007-06.pdf Tough Love Camp Owner Faces Trial] Leland Baxter-Neal, The Tico Times, July 2006Mark Johnson, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091509/http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=273497 Academy's grip lingers as son, family transform], Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, November 8, 2004. Archived September 29, 2007