Pura Vida
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Pura Vida
Costa Rica occupies a privileged spot in the heart of Central America. While its territory of 19,652 square miles touches both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, the country is surprisingly accessible -one can travel from coast to coast in just three hours by car (or 45 minutes by plane).
The Caribbean region of Costa Rica stands out for its variety of aquatic ecosystems and its beautiful white and black sand beaches, providing an ideal setting for activities such as sport fishing, snorkeling, and sun bathing. The Pacific coast con- centrates big tourist centers and its beaches are very popular for surfing, for example Esterillos, Jaco, Hermosa, Boca Barranca. In the Golfito region, near the Marino Ballena National Park, surfing fans can find the famous "long lefthander wave."
Guanacaste Tree
The 2012 World Bank Study for Global Gover- nance Indicators ranks Costa Rica in the second place within Latin America for political stability.
According to The Economist Inte- lligence Unit, San Jose is rankedas the 4th city in Latin Americawith the best quality of life.
I t covers 0.03%of the planet’ssurface and has the privi-lege to be habitat of 5% ofthe world biodiversity with 25% ofits territory protected under differentconservation methods.There are 726 miles of coastline distributed throughout the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Costa Rican beaches are surrounded by forests and have great natural diversity.
Our National Project
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Guaria Morda
Costa Rica has around 25% of the national territory as national parks or natural
reserves. This is the reason why we have strong regulation and activities around
preserving our national resources, but we need more than that.
Every day hundreds of trees are cut, poachers take our animals to sale it in the
black market and part of the population doesn’t take actions to decrease the
environment impact of our social activities.
With this project, AIESEC joins national initiatives and contribute with
international volunteers to improve our environment.
Our Partner
In this project the interns will work in four areas: Finca Loroco will be the first:
working to improve the infrastructure and create awareness about
archaeological sites. The second will be Purisil, here our interns will have
trainings about “green management” and with this knowledge, work with kids.
The third will be Tapantí, a national park, where the interns will work in
signposting and creating infrastructure. And the last one will be concerned with
working in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, on a campaign against the road
running over wildlife and hunting.
Cola Blanca Deer
The multicultural experience give the opportunity to understand better our
world. When you share your culture, traditions and knowledge you are creating
connections between countries and this is the objective of this project: “Create
bounds between countries through experiences”.
In this project the volunteers will have the opportunity to work with different NGOs, making different activities such as:
Yigüirro
Marketing campaigns
Teaching kids about their culture
Improving social projects of the NGOs
Working with disabled people
Helping in nursery homes.
In this moment its clear languages are a key for success in the world. As well, now just English it’s not enough, and just knowing the language neither - it’s necessary to understand the culture. as well. In this moment we can have access to an international environment on the Internet and television but again, it’s insufficient.With this project we will bring international young people to teach languages and culture in Costa Rica.
In this projects volunteers will have the opportunity to develop classes for people interested in learning other languages. With no age restrictions, the challenge will be adapt the class for everyone having in mind there will be different levels: from basic to medium.The languages we will focus on will be English, Portuguese and German.
National Oxcart
Do you want to feel Costa Rica?
ContactsLCVP iGCDP UCRRebeca [email protected]
LCVP iGCDP TECEstefany [email protected]
Esteban [email protected]
iGCDP Manager UNAValeria [email protected]
LCVP iGCDP ULACITDorothy [email protected]
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