Costa Rica 2018

Our Costa Rica students had a fabulous homestay – they built a community kitchen for the community building, created a beautiful garden, painted an out-of-this-world mural and developed deep friendships within their host-families and throughout their community! To celebrate a successful completion of this portion of the program, our students had a big celebration, which […]

Buenos Tardes from Costa Rica!! For this blog post, our Pura Vida team decided that, rather than share about their awesome experiences, they wanted to share about their awesome group mates!  We are excited to read these appreciations about the group members, and are looking forward to hearing about how our students can learn both

Our hard-working students in Costa Rica have made such impressive progress on their service projects in their homestay community this past week! After a fun weekend excursion, they took the time to send us this blog post. We’re looking forward to hearing about and seeing all they accomplish in their next week!   Homestay joy,

Hola from the land of Pura Vida! Our fearless group recently returned from a three-day orientation at the Rainforest Action Center, where they climbed trees, explored and rappelled down waterfalls and swimming holes. They got down and dirty with rainforest wildlife, and learned how to cook traditional Costa Rican meals! They’ve just begun their homestay, and