from 823€

Perfect 4.6rating (65)
  • Good Health And Well-Being

Social work internship at a day care center

location
4 - 24 weeks  ·  Age 18 - 50+
rating  Perfect 4.6  · 
  Verified by Volunteer World
  Good response rate

Highlights

  • Do meaningful volunteer work helping young children
  • Gain Spanish skills by living with local families (own room) and work with children
  • Become more passionate about other cultures, languages and countries
  • Get to know the typical tico lifestyle
  • Visit San Jose, on weekends discover the country like: Jaco, Arenal vulcano, caribbean coast, etc.

Especially suitable

Age 18+
Singles
Couples
Groups

About the program

You love children? Help out at a day care center where you can give positive influence to children from low-income families and help in a great city community.

Your mission is to contribute to the child, promote education, ensure a proper physical, emotional, and social development, and assure the beneficiaries, tranquility and satisfaction.  This children’s center has kids between the ages of one month to 6 years. It emerged as a place where the ...

About the program

Your mission is to contribute to the child, promote education, ensure a proper physical, emotional, and social development, and assure the beneficiaries, tranquility and satisfaction.  This children’s center has kids between the ages of one month to 6 years. It emerged as a place where the children of working parents could have a place to be educated, have friends, and feel comfortable. Some of the children come from single parent families who would struggle without the help of the day care center.

Typically, the day care centers are filled with children in the surrounding areas from different backgrounds, ranging from low to middle class. What families are charged depends on household income.
The day care center is located in Santa Barbara de Heredia. It is a nice quiet place with a lovely park and people are very relaxed. With the bus you can get fast to Heredia center, to all bus stations in San Jose to get to the beach.

The following are some of the volunteer’s responsibilities:

  • Taking care of small babies and children
  • Helping with kitchen duties
  • Attending to children
  • Creating activities and entertaining the children with games and songs
  • Teaching Basic English, hygiene, and spiritual values
Holidays:
4 weeks holidays from middle of December till middle of January.

Typical day

Volunteers spend their time taking care of babies and toddlers, usually playing games and reading them books.  Also, volunteers will assist the staff as needed.  The volunteers will work Monday to Friday for at least 4 or 5 hours a day.  At times, the volunteer will work more or less hours, ...

Typical day

Volunteers spend their time taking care of babies and toddlers, usually playing games and reading them books.  Also, volunteers will assist the staff as needed.  The volunteers will work Monday to Friday for at least 4 or 5 hours a day.  At times, the volunteer will work more or less hours, depending on coordinators needs. 

  • 7.00 am breakfast at your host family
  • 8.00 am starting volunteering duties
  • 1.00 pm end volunteer duties
  • afternoon off for activities :)

Free-time activities

During your time with us in Santa Barbara, you can go after your volunteer duties to swimming pools, visit the Heredia or San Jose downtown, go to some shoppings or visit the museums or just relax at the park of the town.
On weekends most our volunteers go to La Fortuna (vulcano) or beach like Jaco, ...

Free-time activities

During your time with us in Santa Barbara, you can go after your volunteer duties to swimming pools, visit the Heredia or San Jose downtown, go to some shoppings or visit the museums or just relax at the park of the town.
On weekends most our volunteers go to La Fortuna (vulcano) or beach like Jaco, Manuel Antonio, Tamarindo on pazific coast or to the caribbean coast like Puerto Viejo or Tortugero. There is a lot to visit in Costa Rica!
La Fortuna: hot springs, vulcano ziplining, hiking, beach towns like Jaco, surfing, water sports, swimming,...

Requirements

Requirements

Minimum Age: 18 years

In order to join the program you need to be at least 18 years old on the program start date. There might be exemptions if you can provide the permission of your legal guardian(s) or if your are accompanied by your parents.

Language Skills

You need to speak English (intermediate level) or Spanish (basic level)

Criminal Background Check

required

Nationality Restrictions

No restrictions. Helping hands from all over the world are welcome.

Time Commitment

Your helping hand will be required on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 07:30 - 14:30

What's Included

What's Included

Services by Jamso Trainee

  • Airport pick-up on arrival
  • Accommodation (host families)
  • 2 tipical Meals (typical food)
  • 12/7 local support network
  • Project placement & onsite supervision
  • Registration fee included

Airport Pickup at Juan Santamaria International Airport

We do provide on any time a pick up from the airport to your host family. Please make sure, that you send us your flight details in time to organize your pick up.

Accommodation

You will stay with a host family who will provide you a single room. Groups and friends do a shared room.
By living in a tico family, you will make 100% culture and language experience. The ticos are very warm hard and friendly people. Our families are in walking distance to the progam or you can take the bus. We do place volunteers always close to each other, that you can make something together.

Food & Beverages

You will get 2 typical meals a day at your host family.

Internet Access

Good access at the project site

What's NOT included?

What's NOT included?

Flight Tickets

The nearest airport is Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) in San Jose. We assist you to find cheap flights to Costa Rica. FIND CHEAP FLIGHTS

Travel Insurance

Going abroad is an adventure and it is always best to be prepared. Sudden illness or injury, cancellation or theft - a travel insurance for Costa Rica provides security and is a plus to have. GET A QUOTE

Vaccines

If you are intending to volunteer in Costa Rica you should seek medical advice before starting your social journey. Check your required vaccinations for Costa Rica. VACCINE CHECKER

Details on arrival

Any day you like. We can arrange pick up on any day. Most volunteers do arrive on weekend to start on Monday their program.

Availability
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Program fees

4 weeks (min. stay) 823€
5 weeks 1,005€
6 weeks 1,188€
7 weeks 1,370€
9 weeks 1,735€
11 weeks 2,099€
24 weeks (max. stay) 4,469€
Average fees 196€/week

Program fees

196€ per week 4 - 24 weeks Age 18 - 50+

Payment methods

Visa Master Card Maestro American Express PayPal

NO CREDIT CARD FEES

Duration

4 - 24 weeks

Deposit

The deposit is simply to reserve your volunteer placement. Payments are handled by PayPal, our trusted global payment provider. If you don't have a PayPal account, you can also pay using a credit card.

Final Payment

Your final payment will be agreed with Jamso Trainee during the application process. Common solutions are either via bank transfer or a cash payment at the project site.

Meet your organization

Jamso Trainee

Perfect 4.6 rating (65 reviews)

Agency - founded in 2012

Verified by Volunteer World

  Good response rate

Coordinated by

Angela

Spoken languages: Spanish, English, French, German

About the project

Jamso Trainee do help students finding volunteering projects and internships around the world.

Meet your organization

Jamso Trainee has been placing volunteers around the world for over six years. We're passionate about making a difference in developing communities. Cause we are a smaller agency we stay always in a good communication to our volunteers and to the communites. For us it is important to find the right programm for your stay abroad. Don´t travel just like a tourst!

History: 

Jamso Trainee startet in December 2012 helping in communities in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is since now the county with the most interns, volunteers and travelers. 

Since 2013 Jamso Trainee started working with partners in Ecuador, Peru, South Afrika.

2015 we begin working with our partner Bali and Thailand.

Visiting projects and getting more relationshsips with local charities is a goal of each year. Jamso Trainee don´t increase too fast, because for us it is very important to hold long contacts and stay in a good communication with volunteers and projects.

65 reviews · rating4.6

I'm slowly recovering from the jetlag, but I still have the good energy from the trip indeed. So, to report on this 1 month stay with Roxana's family and the Childrens center of Wendy, I would say that it was an enriching experience both from a language point of view (as there were small moments ...
Jennifer rating5

2023 at Support a Cat and Dog Shelter

***English below*** Während meiner unvergesslichen Zeit in Costa Rica von Mitte Februar bis Anfang April 2023 habe ich in dem Shelter als Volunteer geholfen. Das Tierheim ist ein kleines Shelter, worin im Durschnitt etwa acht Hunde und ca. 25 Katzen untergebracht werden. Die Arbeitseinteilung ...
Francis Clément-Garon rating4.6

2023 at School & Educational Supporter

It was one of the most meaningful experience I have ever done and I think that it made me want to do more volunteering work around the world. This experience will be something that I will remember for the rest of my ...
I loved my time in Santa Barbara in this program. The work was delightful and fulfilling, but it was a private (and bilingual) school, and the children I was teaching weren't the ones who would've needed it the most, I would say. That being said, I feel that I made a significant change and that my ...
Denise Grosse rating5

2023 at Support a Cat and Dog Shelter

Ich war für 4 Wochen in Uvita als Volunteer. Die Arbeit mit den Hunden und Katzen hat mir sehr viel Spaß gemacht. Die Arbeitszeiten sind entweder vormittags von 8-11 Uhr oder nachmittags von 15-17 Uhr, sodass man noch sehr viel Freizeit hat. Die Schicht beginnt mit Gassirunden, anschließend ...
Miriam Wild rating5

2023 at Support a Cat and Dog Shelter

***English below*** Die vier Wochen bei Tierheim in Uvita waren unglaublich schön! Das Arbeiten im Tierheim hat sich gar nicht wirklich nach Arbeit angefühlt, weil neben dem Putzen und Füttern immernoch total viel Zeit zum kuscheln und spielen übrig war. Trotzdem hatte man das Gefühl, mit ...

Location

Americas > Central America > Costa Rica > Santa Barbara de Heredia

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