Alternative Spring Break Costa Rica
Are you looking to spend your spring break differently by volunteering for underprivileged communities? Do you dream of travelling to exotic Costa Rica for a once in a lifetime cheap vacation and change your life and for other poor people? Do not waste you time during spring break, this is a perfect opportunity for you and your group to do it differently by taking this trip to Costa Rica travelling and changing the world.
This is an excellent learning experience. More often you will be giving back directly to communities through service learning projects or community service requirements, which combines volunteer experiences with what you learn in the classroom. While volunteering during your spring break the difference you make in the communities is enormous. You will not only be able to learn more about yourself and capabilities but also get to travel with a new perspective and purpose.
IFRE’s Costa Rica alternative spring break programs are highly reviewed and trusted by over 22,000 past volunteers. As a registered non-profit, IFRE is affordable with professional field volunteer support and diverse opportunities for cultural immersion. In addition they have over 200 programs in 20 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America. By joining IFRE you will help poor people to live a happier healthier life, while exploring places of interest around the country.
If you and your group have been dreaming to change lives of communities, animals and for environmental conservation then, this is a perfect opportunity. Contact us today for a rewarding and fulfilling experience that will also appear on your resume for your career endeavors. !
- Benefits of Joining Alternative Spring Break
- Popular alternative spring break programs and destinations
- Skill and Qualifications
- The Start Date(s)
- The Fee
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- How can I apply?
- Why go with IFRE Volunteers?
- How can you go as a group?
Benefits of Alternative Spring Break Costa Rica Volunteering
Some of the benefits of volunteering abroad are discussed below:
Advance Your Talents
If you are a high school or a college student, then this may be your first international trip and experience without your parents or guardians. This opportunity will teach you how to take care of yourself and introduce you to adulthood. You will develop leadership, teamwork, and even new language skills, while you are exploring and volunteering in a new country. These hands-on skills will serve you well in your future and help you achieve your goal.
Expand Your Social Circle
Alternative spring break volunteering program in Costa Rica provides you with an opportunity to develop lifelong relationships with other like-minded people. As a volunteer, you will work in a completely different setting with disadvantaged local people and volunteers from around the world, therefore you can make new friends and might pick up a new language.
Improve Communities
Volunteering does not only enrich you with a lot of valuable skills but also gives you a unique and meaningful opportunity to serve less fortunate people and animals. Your genuine support and care will help these underprivileged people lead a harmonious and healthier life.
Be Social and Better Person
Volunteering overseas lets you dedicate your time and efforts to worthwhile causes & help the community as a whole. In due time, these volunteer programs will make you a better person. Volunteering abroad also supports your mental peace and happiness. The skills like interpersonal skills you gain during your spring break alternative program in Costa Rica to help you be a interactive and positive minded person.
IFRE Best Affordable Alternative Spring Break Costa Rica Programs
Costa Rica Turtle Conservation Volunteer OSA Peninsula, Pacific Coast)
The Osa Peninsula is a rural and gorgeous part of southern pacific coast of Costa Rica. It is renowned as one of the most bio-diverse places in the world filled with massive rainforest, wildlife and marine life. Despite all the beauty, many of these natural wonders are endangered by human encroachment, including the sea turtles. IFRE works with communities for a unique research-based Costa Rica sea turtle volunteer project. While in Costa Rica alternative spring break, you will help scientists carry out in-water research to learn more about sea turtles at all stages of their lives by catching, tagging, and tracking wild turtles.
Volunteer With Turtles in Costa Rica (Caribbean Coast, Pacuare)
Costa Rica beaches are the nesting grounds for four different species of endangered sea turtles, and the perfect place for your abroad adventure! Sea turtles populations are declining and they now endangered. Humans who consider them a delicacy hunt them for their meat and eggs.
When you join this turtle conservation program in Costa Rica, you will work with scientists and reformed former poachers to guard nests, gather data for scientific research, and ensure baby hatchlings make their way out to sea.
Wildlife & Sea Turtle Conservation Project (Reserva Playa)
Costa Rica is gorgeous with rainforests, rushing rivers, spectacular beaches, and mountains, and is home to a colorful and dizzying array of plants and animals. Despite efforts by the government and many people in Costa Rica trying to protect the natural world, the country is still recovering from decades of previous deforestation.
When you join alternative spring break Costa Rica wildlife conservation program in Costa Rica you will work with scientists and other volunteers to study animals like crocodiles, scarlet macaws, tree boas, and more in their natural habitat. During sea turtle season (at this location, July- January), you can help protect endangered sea turtle eggs from poachers and ensure new hatchlings make their way back to the sea.
Wildlife Sanctuary Project (Natuwa)
Costa Rica is a beautiful country also known as a wildlife lover’s dream. It is home to sloths, monkeys, macaws, toucans, jaguars, pumas, ocelots, frogs, snakes, and so much more. These amazing animals are now endangered due to human encroachment into their natural habitat. Some lose their homes, while others are electrocuted by power lines or hit by cars.
IFRE works with communities at a wildlife sanctuary program in Costa Rica that rescues and rehabilitates animals that have been injured, orphaned, or are victims of the pet trade. When you volunteer at alternative spring break program in Costa Rica you will help provide daily care to the animals, assist in the rescue and release process, plant trees including learning how to respect wildlife.
Working With Underprivileged Children (San Jose, Cortes)
Costa Rica is a stunning country most famous for its beautiful sand white beaches and wildlife. Sadly, there are many children in Costa Rica who are struggling on a daily basis, orphans and poor families who can’t afford childcare. IFRE works with many organizations to help provide support through offering childcare so low-income parents can go to work. During alternative spring break Costa Rica orphanage project, you will be compassionate to children in need, and make a profound difference in their lives
Teaching English Project (San Jose, Cortes)
Although tourism in Costa Rica brings in over 2 billion dollars a year, only about 10% of the population currently speaks English, which they dearly need to communicate with the tourists. With more than a million people living in poverty, this lack of education is preventing hard-working Costa Ricans from improving their financial situation.
IFRE partners with local schools and offers Costa Rican students a much-needed English teaching volunteer program. You will be helping the kids learn conversational English, coming up with fun and engaging activities to get your students excited about their studies, and assisting the local teachers.
Healthcare Project (San Jose, Cortes)
Costa Rica is a world filled with shades of green and the people are very friendly and easygoing. Despite Costa being more developed than most countries in Central America, poor people in rural areas still have limited access to quality medical care, and sometimes lack the education to know how best to manage their health.
When you join alternative spring break Costa Rica medical volunteer program, you will shadow local doctors and medical professionals in their treatment of these patients and gain valuable experience observing real-life medical cases and in how to handle them.
School/Orphanage Construction (San Jose)
Costa Rica is a perfect jumping off point for adventures around the country including beaches, volcanoes, and rainforests. Unfortunately, over a quarter of Costa Ricans live in poverty, with those living in rural areas most heavily affected. People often live in substandard conditions and dilapidated buildings that are in desperate need of renovation and upgrading. In Costa Rica, IFRE has ongoing construction projects to offer communities in need. With local foremen, and our international volunteers join teams building or repairing homes, schools, and orphanages in poor communities in Costa Rica.
Volunteer Vacation Costa Rica
Costa Rica is the perfect place to send your cheap Costa Rica alternative spring break. Although Costa Rica’s people are incredibly warm, friendly, and peaceful, many of them are also desperately poor. Around the holidays, families often don’t have the money to celebrate all of the wonderful Latin traditions usually celebrated and enjoyed at this time of year. You can support families to bring the joy of the holidays to children and elderly people in need. IFRE’s Christmas and New Year’s Costa Rica holiday volunteer program helps communities to fix a childcare center and then volunteer with low-income kids playing games and sports.
Veterinary Medicine Internship (Wildlife Rescue And Rehab Sanctuary)
Costa Rica is a traveler’s paradise, but many locals suffer from poverty, lack of access to reliable healthcare in rural areas, and other social ills. If your passion is wildlife, IFRE in partnership with volunteer organizations offers two-week minimum alternative spring break Costa Rica veterinary medicine internship program. When you join, you will shadow and assist doctors and wildlife professionals in the rescue, rehabilitation, and care of injured wildlife or animals confiscated from the illegal pet trade.
Work On A Coffee Farm
Coffee is king in Costa Rica with 28% of the Costa Rican work force involved in the industry. A coffee farm is the ideal location for volunteer working on a sustainable coffee farm. When not grown sustainably, coffee farming can seriously erode the soil it is being grown in, which leads to a lot of further environmental issues. By joining IFRE’s coffee farm volunteer program, you will learn sustainable and ecological practices and work hands-on implementing them including helping rear plants in the nursery, weed, help care for livestock, sow crops, utilize native species, and more.
Indigenous Tribe Promotion
Most of the indigenous population of Costa Rica was decimated by disease brought in by European conquest. Those that survived fell back into the jungles and mountains, trying to avoid slavery and assimilation. Now only 64,000 remain, but those that do are struggling to hold on to their traditional way of life, traditions, culture, and history.
IFRE is dedicated to helping an indigenous tribe made up of less than 800 people maintain their ancient way of life through our Costa Rica spring break alternative indigenous tribe promotion volunteer program. You’ll eat traditional meals, attend tribal ceremonies, and learn about this fascinating Costa Rican way of life while helping preserve it by promoting cultural tourism.
Skills and Qualifications
No skills or qualification are required for spring break alternative volunteer Costa Rica volunteer abroad programs, except for the medical and veterinary volunteer programs, where you will be required to have certain skills and qualifications. Since volunteering is all about sharing your love and passion to improve the lives of those in need, you will need to be kind, loving and compassionate with the situations of the people.
The Start Date(s)
IFRE programs begin every Monday year-round. If you have travel constraints, you can still start your chosen program on any day of the year.
Alternative spring break Costa Rica: The Fee
The program fee starts at $185 that is paid directly to the host family. The fee covers for your accommodation, food and in-country support. In some countries you will be required a one-time registration fee that will cater for all your pre-departure costs. As a non-profit IFRE focuses on affordable, flexible and safe programs to fit right into your budget.
To learn more about the fee for each country please follow this link.
Housing and Food
Where you live depend on your project types and location, you will mostly live in host family and sometime in volunteer house. IFRE makes sure you have a safe, clean and comfortable place to sleep, three healthy local meals a day, and we watch over you closely with our in-country staff of passionate, knowledgeable humanitarians.
Learn more about what kind of accommodation or food is available in Costa Rica.
How can you apply to join?
You will be required to fill out basic information, which includes name, address, contact number, emergency contacts, and affiliated organization for IFRE’s Costa Rica alternative spring break programs. The application is only are available online, and it is a simple and direct application process. If you have any special skills, requirements or any experience be sure to list it so that IFRE allocates you the right program. When you submit your application, IFRE will forward to the offices in the respective country you are seeking to travel and the vetting process will begin immediately.
To apply, please follow the APPLY NOW button at the top of the page.
Why go with IFRE Volunteers?
As a Costa Rica alternative spring break volunteer opportunity provider, IFRE Volunteer is a registered non-profit founded in 2006 in Texas, US. It is distinct from other providers since it focuses on an intimate grassroots approach to its 200 programs worldwide. Since inception IFRE has hosted over 22,000 volunteers in 18 countries in developing countries around three continents.
How can you go as a group?
IFRE carefully selects projects that make it possible for your group to make a real difference while enjoying a safe experience. You’ll also have plenty of time to practice your Spanish (or Portuguese) as you see the sights, go around local areas and mingle with locals. If you and your group want to take a life changing alternative spring break program, please contact us today. We look forward to design a unique program that matches the passion and goals of you and your group.
Conclusion
IFRE offers high quality, safe and affordable alternative spring break Costa Rica program. You may be interested in one or several programs that seem perfect for you and your group- this spring. Making a final decision may not be easy but knowing the best options available for you in Costa Rica is valuable. Choose wisely with no obligation and enjoy your time volunteering in Costa Rica
We would love to hear which Costa Rica volunteer program you selected! Drop us a line or two, in the meantime, Safe travels and enjoy Costa Rica.
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