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Germany

5

Such a great week at the community. Christ's program is varied and fun. The experience together with the other volunteers makes the time unforgettable. The volunteers' house is being renovated bit by bit, Christ cares about the well-being of all volunteers and she makes a lot of effort to please everyone. She is a real power woman. Thank you for everything! In Sarapiqui you get a real local experience. Also the freetime activities can be filled with sports classes, chilling by the river or in the bakery. After a week you feel like you know half of the village.

over 1 year ago

Germany

5

I stayed here for 2 weeks and enjoyed my time a lot. The tasks were always different. We painted the volunteer house and murals, replanted trees on a farm, helped teach English, and harvested yuca. Christ taught us the local lifestyle and how to make yuca and platanos empañadas. She also treated us to local restaurants. In our free time she took us to waterfalls and festivals (free) and even zip lining ($30 but sooo worth it). There isn't much to do in the town so after work days we went to the bakery (highly recommend) and the river. Christ cares about us and our wishes, I 100% recommend!

over 1 year ago

Germany

5

Christ is so welcoming and cares deeply about your experience. She took us to the activities we wanted to and showed us around town. The work was fairly easy, I painted a lot. I stayed 2 weeks and I found it was the perfect amount of time, I really got to practice my Spanish as well as work on different activities such as teaching english, planting trees and painting. I definitely recommend going to the free workout classes and the bakery! Overall I had a great time with Christ and learning about the local culture.

over 1 year ago

France

5

What i liked the most in this experience was that Christ takes you to a lot of places to eat different culinary specialites (included in the price you pay to come) and she took us to a local farm. It is great to meet real costaricans! There is a lot of things to do in the area and she will show them to you! Christ the host is very nice, her cooking is delicious and I loved her dogs! The tasks are very easy and fun.

over 1 year ago

France

5

I loved staying with Christ ! The work was not hard at all, the volunteer house was very good. Christ took us to her favorite restaurants and we really experienced the costarican way of life ! Thank you Christ for the amazing time we spent with you !

over 1 year ago

United States

5

I LOVE FCR!!! Christ is the absolute loveliest person you'll ever meet. She has such a beautiful vision for the community. I felt so connected to her and was genuinely sad to leave. She went above and beyond to make us feel safe, connected and happy. She cooked almost every meal, managed the whole program, worked her job and then made sure we had adventures and saw beautiful things during our time off. The 1st project was to fix up the vol house so a lot of the problems discussed in other comments have been fixed. My time here has forever changed me and I'm happy to have a home in Costa Rica!

over 1 year ago

Germany

4

I was the first one to volunteer at this place so I also was the only one. The volunteers have they're own house it's really nice. I am a vegetarians so Christ cooked nice vegetarian food for me everyday. She is a really nice person, she helped me when I had questions and was teaching me some Spanish.

9 months ago

Christ replied

Thanks Kim yes Iam a architect and I work in my own house all the creative part where I have the tools and materials :) We are in a new project like an architect when I finish a project a start a new one and I apreciate your support, in this stage I started the course for the community where I am teaching how to read plans where the volunteer can participate for free.

Puerto Rico

3

It was a great experience, the host was super kind and attentive. She was really flexible about the tasks and she always fulfilled with every food (it was very good). What I improve would be the volunteers house, provide a microwave and a mini fridge, also clean it bit more. I recommend for the host to inform a priori that the volunteers house is not where she lives and it is almost 6 minutes away from her house and you have to walk to her house every time the food is served. The town is very rural and small it is 2 hours away from San José, it is very hot so I recommend sport clothes.

about 1 year ago

Brazil

2

Christ is a nice person, but the project needs Better struture.

over 1 year ago

Christ replied

Thanks Luiz, I agree, that's why the project is about repairing and improving the 2 properties using circular architecture until they become self-sustaining houses. When it is ready I will no longer need volunteers and will be ready for clients who pay for services.
Programs with hotel accommodation and class packages are also available for students and profesionals , with a separate cost for each service.
The project is going quickly taking into account that the volunteers do not always have skills for the tasks in which I am reluctant to waste materials and time such as labeling. I think they have enjoyed the experience more, they have been the ones who have more foundations in design and are more adaptable to working by project.

Pura vida!
Seguimos cuidando el bosque tropical ya llevamos 180 arboles sembrados en reforestacion de un bosque tropical que esta en peligro.

France

4

I had a great time staying at Christ's house! I stayed for 3 weeks but I think 10days or 2 weeks would be perfect to experiment local culture and what Christ's has to learn you. Horquetas is a really small town and you can be bored if you stay for a too long time (even more if you are alone) Christ is a nice host and a good cooker. During my free days I traveled to Limòn and La Fortuna but you have to be aware about the fact that the travel can be long. The house is comfy (but no hot water in the shower: we get used to it but it's good to know 😉). Tasks are easy.

over 1 year ago

Christ replied

Thanks Zoe, I am glad with your job like volunteer here with the basic pack program with introduction to the desing and the spanish for backpackers but now we have available standard pack with spanish intesive personalized course or permaculture course taught by an agricultural engineer.
The premiun program include different types of hosting and the pack of course that you prefer with a tour.
Every pack include basic volunteer program or we can offer the premiun HQ volunteer pack.
Thanks every volunteer for help this program with the basic program also are doing the difference. Profesionals are welcome to the HQ volunteer program too and work together for the change and you can do for longer while you learn spanish for profesionals with international certificate.

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