Gender issues Volunteer Abroad in Costa Rica

Volunteer from 1 week to 3 months in Costa Rica, in meaningful projects that will let you work side-by-side with local people and experience the Costa Rican culture like never before. As an international volunteer with Cross-Cultural Solutions, you're making a positive contribution, by sharing in the goals of a Costa Rican community that warmly welcomes you.

Volunteer with Experiential Learning International in Costa Rica and pick a program from a list of opportunities, including programs in gender equality and women's empowerment, community health, environment conservation efforts, and youth education. Programs require participants to have basic to advanced Spanish language skills. Volunteers are given room and board at homes of host families.

ISV offers a unique combination of volunteer projects and action-packed adventure travel in a fun, safe, educational and well-organized environment. ISV participants make a significant difference in the world by annually contributing over 250,000 hours of volunteer work abroad in the fields of conservation and community development.

Through our partner in Costa Rica, Love Volunteers is seeking volunteers to help local communities. Opportunities are available precisely where the local population’s needs are greatest, your efforts directly impacting on the lives of people affected by poverty. The options include teaching, working with disadvantaged children, as well as medical, environmental and construction work.

Help communities by joining Volunteers For Peace international volunteer placements in Croatia. Participants can experience the unique culture and interact with the locals while staying in the city of Zagreb for two to four weeks. This program is open to motivated and flexible American philanthropists.

InterExchange is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting cross-cultural awareness through work and volunteer exchange programs. For more than 40 years, InterExchange has been connecting young people from all over the world with life-changing international cultural exchange opportunities.

Explore one of the most bio-diverse areas in Latin America, and discover why the national phrase, "Pura Vida", or "Pure Life", is the perfect choice of words to describe life in Costa Rica. Experience of a Lifetime Costa Rica is a vibrant country, renowned for its warm people and very progressive, ecologically-conscience government, but the country still faces a myriad of problems related...

Viva Nicaragua! Center for Social Justice and Cultural Understanding has 2 programs in 2 different locations. Programs are offered in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

Development Focus: Environmental Conservation Activities: In 2013, YCA volunteers will be supporting a turtle conservation program. This project will involve night patrols along the beach; whilst during the day volunteers will be involved in other environmental activities including cleaning the beach of debris, working in the recycling centre, teaching English, and arts and crafts with childr...