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Be a leader in a Sea Turtle Project on Pacific Coast, Costa Rica

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The experience

Help saving endangered Olive Ridley Sea turtle in Costa Rica!

We mainly need help to welcome the volunteers and organize their activities. We need help for communication between and English and Spanish, since the owner of the project only speaks Spanish.

Help us continue to host volunteers and keep our project active!

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

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

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 47 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, and Donation to project

Description: This is a non-profit organization. The project does not receive any subsidies from the state. The fees help: Maintain the camp, house, and ensure the area is pleasant Purchase food for all meals, coffee, and fruits Buy materials for animal care (gloves, bags, hatchery supplies, etc.) Pay the staff working on the project Support the project's growth and operations.

What you get

2 days 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.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

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 would like to find a leader to help us with the volunteers.
We would like this person to stay between 2 and month.
But we can study any perfil.
We are surrounded by nature, in front of the sea.
The beach is 6km long, so we have lot of work taking care of this place and protecting the nesting turtles.
We offer a nice volunteering abroad experience on the Costa Rican pacific coast to get the help we need.
Volunteers can enjoy slow tourism and local pura vida way of life with us.
We live and work on a sustainable way in order to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem.
We like sharing with people, explain our culture, our incredible wildlife.
We offer a nice house with 12 dorms, and 3 meals a day.
Turtles season starts in June and ends in January with the last release of babies.
We are a local family.

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.
We want to be able to do 2 nights patrol to save more turtles.
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 excursions and visits
- do night patrols
Any activity like yoga would be a big plus.
The main volunteers activities are :
- patrol during the night on the 6 Km beach to find turtles nesting
- in the morning locate the eggs in the hatchery
- in the morning or afternoon release baby sea turtles.
They could help with gardening or camp maintenance.
There is lot of free time, so they can leave the camp to visit nearby places (Manuel Antonio, Nauyaca Falls, Dominical...).

Rules

It is a very remote place, non-touristic. There is no shop.
You have to be able to spend time by yourself or with the others volunteers.
There's no wifi but the signal is quite good so you should come with a local Sim card.
You must respect work times, the place, and the others.
To arrive in Tortugas de Isla Damas, you can take a bus in San Jose until Quepos at Tracopa terminal. The cost is about 11 dollars.
Then a transport until the island that we organize for you for 10 dollars (taxi and boat).
We come for you at Quepos bus terminal, so your trip is easy and safe.
We are close to Manuel Antonio.
You can have several free days a month to visit other parts of Costa Rica. The days are decided with the owner of the project to make sure volunteers will be fine.
Enjoy the more you can and have peace and fun!