from 672€
Local Care for Elderly Persons in Escazu Town
Highlights
- Highly personalized and differentiated service to offer you a unique experience making sure you have the best time of your life.
- This is what differentiate us from the rest of the programs.You can cross check this with our outstanding reviews.
- Volunteer with Costa Rica surrounded by beautiful and unique nature .
- Enjoy your weekends by visiting stunning beaches and improving your surfing skills. Learn this beautiful language by attending Spanish lessons
Especially suitable
About the program
This Elderly Center is a social welfare institution who started with the need of care places for people with disabilities, and have been abandoned.
About the Program
As in most societies around the world, caring for the elderly is left to social welfare institutions when their own families cannot care for them. Many of the elderly care centers support those with disabilities, those who have been abandoned or have mental illness such as ...
Typical day
Some of the activities you will be asked to participate in are:
- Daily attendance to the staff
- Physical therapies
- Psychology workshop
- Medical examination
- Work with the assistants of the center
- Organized games
- Technical training to make handcrafts
- To design, manage and evaluate projects
- Cleansing of rooms
- Washin
Free-time activities
During your free time there are many things that you can do and/or visit.
To name just a few:
- Surf Lessons
- Spanish lessons
- tours by the city of San Jose
- hiking to Volcanos
- Beaches
- National Parks
- rental car for the weekends
- cook lessons
- Walking in the mountains
If you are interested, we can help with ...
Requirements
What's Included
What's NOT included?
Details on arrival
We have volunteers from every country and background possible. Spanish fluency is not necessary and We work 365 days a year, you can arrive any day of the week but we do have a schedule for arrivals. Our Host Family will have its gates open from 6am till 10pm if you arrive after or before this schedule you'll need to wait for the next day or the next opening. We can provide and arrange your transportation to and from the airport with our trusted drivers if you'll like to but it would have an extra cost.
Those volunteers who are arriving overland or are already in Costa Rica will be picked up at a meeting point decided beforehand.
Program fees
Meet your organization
Volunteer Now Costa Rica
Non-profit - founded in 2004
Verified by Volunteer World
Coordinated by
Jenny
About the project
91 reviews · 4.3
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