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Be a Leader in a Meaningful Family Conservation Project 🌿🐒🌍

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The experience

Help protect wildlife and restore nature at Las Ranitas in Costa Rica! 🐒🌿
We’re looking for support to welcome volunteers and help coordinate daily activities within our conservation project.
Your role will be key to ensuring smooth communication between English- and Spanish-speaking volunteers, as the owner of the project only speaks Spanish, and to keeping the project active, harmonious, and impactful for local biodiversity.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 50 Per week

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers and Materials for volunteer activities

Description: It's a small project with few volunteers for the moment so fees are used to pay part of the food.

What you get

1 day off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate Spanish and Intermediate English

Over 25 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We are looking for a volunteer leader to support our family and help coordinate daily life with the volunteers at Las Ranitas, a conservation project located on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast.

Ideally, we’re looking for someone who can stay between 2 and 3 months, but we’re open to different profiles and lengths of stay for the right person.

Our project is set in a unique environment between the river, jungle, canals, and the sea, in a remote and non-touristy area. Our work focuses on reforestation, monkey conservation, and biodiversity protection. There is always meaningful work to do to care for the land and support local wildlife, especially capuchin monkeys.

We offer a genuine volunteering experience centered on slow travel and the Pura Vida lifestyle. We live and work in a sustainable way, in close connection with nature. Sharing our culture, daily life, and knowledge of the local ecosystem is an essential part of the project.

You’ll stay in a simple and comfortable house with shared dorms, and three meals per day are provided.
Las Ranitas is a family-led project, and we welcome people who want to connect, learn, and help protect this unique ecosystem.

Your ability to speak both Spanish and English is essential.

Activities & Shift

We mainly need help to welcome the volunteers and organize their work.
We need help for communication between and english and spanish because the owner of the project only speak spanish.

The leader will help with :
- welcome the volunteers and explain the work and the rules
- make sure everybody feels good
- help volunteers or join them for any activity
- monitoring monkeys
Any activity like yoga would be a big plus.
The main volunteers activities are :
- monitoring monkeys
- reforest and gardening
- help with any farm activity.
They could help with camp maintenance.

Rules

You have to respect the place, the others and the working times.
You are in charge of helping the volunteers to have all the informations and enjoy the best experience.
You have to be very careful with the sea and the jungle.
It is not a party place.

To join us you take a bus to Bataan and then a taxi ride to the place where the boat will be waiting for you (cost 10$).
Boat ride for both entry and exit is 50$.