Volunteering

Adetur has a volunteer program. In this program, you can participate in different activities to help the community to know the different attractions of Costa Rica.

Below we tell you about some people who have participated in these programs and have had good experiences with Adetur.

Pauline Hernandez

Another French student friend was Pauline Hernandez who dedicated many hours teaching French to children and also supporting Adetur when we organized a tour for handicapped children named “Todos podemos viajar” (”We all can travel”).

Candice Michelle

We also had the visit of other French student friends: Candice Michelle and Inés Reutier. Candice, Inés and Pauline organized a book collect to be donated to the Elementary School Escuela República de Colombia.

Candice worked with children from the Elementary School Escuela Republica de Colombia and at the Public Library, but especially with women that are mothers of handicapped children in a program dedicated to very small business management named in Spanish Microempresa Inclusiva.

Inés Reutier

Inés took charge of a Project for teaching Tourism to children, a workshop named Touristic Culture. She also directed French lessons oriented to Golden Age Citizens. Last year, 2020, our great friends Inés and Candice offer the possibility to teach French to children and adults, tourism basics, and also French cooking all online. Children were able to come to the Public Library of Naranjo and adults were gathered within the third age residence Hogar de Ancianos Jose del Olmo.

More friends

When Clara and Zoe arrived in Costa Rica they retook the projects for teaching French and tourism basics, but they were also very important taking part in activities for third age people such as the discussion group “Desde los cafetales” (“From the coffee plantations”) where the gol is to include adult opinions and perspectives in present time reality.

Chloe, Clara y Pascal, were part of several activities at the Escuela Republica de Colombia, the Public Library of Naranjo, but especially with the Asociación de Cuidados Paliativos de Naranjo, taking care (company and quality timeshare) of deep pain patients.

More about Volunteer Program

Don’t get us wrong, but this is not work-work-work. There is time to visit all the wonders of Costa Rica. Our volunteer friends have the chance to explore Costa Rica and we guarantee there are no regrets. They have the chance to go out on weekends to nice places that are within two hour car drive range. They go by themselves, with their Costarican families or with their own families when they plan a trip like that at the end of their working stay.

Living with a Costarican family is a great experience, but traveling with it too is the perfect combination of tight lies. Visiting, exploring, tasting, dancing, spending time, and practicing Spanish are some of the advantages of this project.

We were in France!

This invitation was fantastic! We were able to visit La Rochelle University, Excelia Group in France, and meet our partners right on their spot doing what they love and we love: tourism teaching, tourism planning, tourism investigation. It was the International Day of Tourism the occasion for presenting our project Costa Rica-Humacité and the good results we came to.

Thanks to the support, hard work, and trust of Loreto Ibañez from La Rochelle University we signed a Collaboration Agreement to take care of the Humacité Program in Costa Rica. Students from France will have all detailed organization for making a productive and joyful experience in Costa Rica, preparing themselves for their professional future, and helping others with fewer opportunities in Central America. Thanks to this project and thanks to Mrs. Ibañez, Adetur was recognized by the Instituto Costarricense de Turismo (I.C.T. – Costa Rica Tourism Board), as a Leading Travel Company in Social Tourism with Integrity with a mention in Volunteering.