Program Reviews

I've been a vollunteer in the office and helped to create a new programm to work with groups and families. So I get the chance to do a lot of administrative work as well as working directly with groups of volunteers, local people and kids of the neighborhoods. This includes big experience in every field of work.

I worked in two different programs of Proyecto mosaico, including the project "Tortugas de Pacuare" in Costa Rica.
I have never seen more different animals in my whole live, than during my 3 week stay in this project.
All the people of this little island were really nice and interested in talking to us about their lives and ours.

So all in all this projecto was the perfect opportunity to get a lot of new experiences, to improve my Spanish, to learn something about the safety of turtles in this area and to hang out on a really nice beach in my freetime.

It was well organised, the staff is super friendly and open and it was one of the best experiences in my life. There are also possibilities to get in contact with other volunteers, for example there is a contact list with all current volunteers and regular meetings. The organization has great contacts.

I lived in the project Tortugas de Pacuare for five weeks and I would recommend it to everyone. Despite all those mosquitos, we lived in paradise: during the day, we were swimming in the sea, lying on the beach and eating coconuts.

During work, I learned a lot about sea turtles and environmental protection building a hatchery, patrolling for hours by night and guarding the turtle eggs we had just relocated. The experience we made with this giant animals was just amazing, even if work was sometimes very exhausting.

The house was also nice and living with all those interested volunteers was very exciting. In addition to that, I met a lot of lovely costarican people who taught me how to work a turtle and how to cook costaricain food. We all became a familiy soon.

I now want to keep supporting the project so I'm going back. This time, I'll stay three months. I'll enjoy every single day.