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We offer students the opportunity to do a service learning project while in Cost Rica. If you wish to combine language learning with a volunteer experience, you may take our normal 4-hour-a-day Spanish class in the morning and do a professional internship in the afternoon.
Service learning projects can also be a good way to practice your language and cross-cultural skills. Based on our long experience training Peace Corps Volunteers and other international development workers in Costa Rica, we have many community, organization, and government relationships that can help us plan professional internships. Please let us know about your interests, skills, and how much time you would like to commit, and we can find the perfect organization for your professional internship.
Some service options are:·
- Reforestation and environmental education.
- Social work with street children, teenage/single, mothers, orphans.
- Small business consulting.
- Public health.
- Alcoholics Anonymous or drug prevention.
- Working with the blind.
- ESL in public schools.
- Medicine.
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| A CPH student Interns at a local health clinic |
As soon as we know what kind of experience interests you, we begin working to guarantee that your internship is a successful one.
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“I, along with my wife, Elaine and our two children, Rachel (age 9) and Sarah (age 7), are volunteers here in Costa Rica. We are Habitat for Humanity International. We will be helping less fortunate people to organize themselves and build houses for three years. After about three months of language classes at CPH, I can honestly say I now can carry on a very credible conversation with people who can speak only Spanish. I feel that when a program of learning has an environment that is varied, challenging and fun; it will be successful. Those of us at Habitat, who have learned the language and customs of the Spanish culture at CPH, know that they accomplish this well.” |
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| John
Guillot Habitat for Humanity |
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