from 1,243€
Beach Conservation Experience
Highlights
- Give back to the local communities by providing them with much needed help.
- Gain Spanish practice by living with a host family and sharing daily life with locals.
- Make memories you'll never forget during your time abroad.
- Learn more about the Latin American ways, customs and habits.
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About the program
Protect paradise & empower communities! Volunteer to clean Costa Rica's stunning beaches and support local conservation efforts. Make a lasting difference! ♻️🌴
Our Beach Conservation volunteer project is located on the extreme southern tip of the Nicoya Peninsula on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast.
This nature reserve was Costa Rica’s first protected area for nature conservation and later became the first official National Park in 1963. Shortly ...
Typical day
The Beach Conservation program begins with a mandatory 2 day orientation session in San Jose, where you receive vital information about your project and trip to the project site.
Working hours vary according to the needs of the project, but you can expect to work 5-7 hours per day, Monday-Friday.
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Free-time activities
Along the beaches, volunteers will find SCUBA, surfing, snorkelling, body boarding, and more or they can do land excursions with hiking, horseback riding or adventure tours and zip-lining that are also easily found. Opportunities to tour other parts of Costa Rica are also available if they want to ...
Requirements
What's Included
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Details on arrival
Projects start every Monday, all year round. Volunteers arrive on Sunday and spend the first couple of days in San José, where they receive the orientation. In San José, they stay in a local Costa Rican family with a shared room and breakfast and dinner included. At the conservation project, they are housed in either a family-stay or dorm-style accommodations where they are provided with three meals a day.
Program fees
Meet your organization
Maximo Nivel
Agency - founded in 2003
Verified by Volunteer World
Coordinated by
Georgie
About the project
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