Possible projects include:
Schools
Participants have the opportunity to volunteer at public schools in economically depressed areas. Each volunteer works with a group of 7-12 year-old students. Activities include: teaching basic English to the children, singing songs in Spanish and English, maintaining the school's facilities, and working in the school's vegetable garden with the children.
Orphanage for Children
The program takes place from June 6 to August 14, 2011 in classrooms of a private high school in Heredia, Costa Rica.
This project takes part in a national park close to Heredia.
Students help park staff with reforestation, building and maintaining trails, and protecting wildlife. Students participate in seminars about park rangers’ jobs, problems they face, resources they have to protect the environment, and the efforts the national parks system makes to preserve Costa Rican nature.
Senior Citizen Center
This is a center where senior citizen go for the day only. Students help with recreational activities, such as playing cards and bingo, singing songs, and helping women with their make-up. Further activities include helping the staff to clean and serve meals.
Recycling
This project takes place in a neighborhood where the residents have organized a center where people bring recyclables to be sorted before sending them to recycling centers. Students sort these recyclables and participate in lectures about the consequences of pollution to the environment and future generations. Students also learn how they can help prevent pollution and reduce the amount garbage they throw away.
SPANISH LANGUAGE:
Motivation for learning a foreign language greatly increases when a person in completely immersed in that language. That is our main objective at COSI's Teenage Summer Camp. When students return home, grades improve in their Spanish classes and students are inspired to further their education in Spanish.
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