Green Life Volunteers Blog - News, Reviews, and Volunteer Updates
Update from Our Dog and Cat Rescue Project
Green Life Volunteer's Dog Rescue project has been in full swing since the beginning of 2014. We've already rescued and successfully adopted out several adult dogs and many litters of puppies and kittens. We are also helping to organize spaying and neutering clinics,...
NEW Video Review of Volunteering for Turtle Conservation
This video was made by volunteers who worked on the Turtle Conservation Internship Project. Watching this Video will give you a good idea of what to expect on your project as an Intern. [embedplusvideo height="300" width="450" editlink="http://bit.ly/1o57Wxm"...
Abroad Reviews
We have an account on Abroad Reviews and our volunteers can publish their unbiased reviews so that you can trust we're not making them up 😉 .. We're a small local Costa Rican organization and we don't buy reviews or pay people to write reviews.. all of our volunteer...
Many New Volunteers for 2014
Hello everyone... Happy New Year 2014. We've signed up many new volunteers for our projects for the next few months... Turtle conservation, teaching English, and dog and animal rescue projects are amongst the most popular. We're pleased to have such great volunteers...
New Project Added – Large Parrot Breeding & Rescue Center
Check out our newest Project addition, a large Parrot Breeding and Rescue Facility on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. We're glad to help out Patrick and Ruby-Ann with their amazing project.
Katja – A new Turtle Intern
Katja arrived a week and a half ago, and is volunteering as a turtle intern in Ostional on the Nicoya Peninsula. She'll be there for around 6 weeks. Coordinator Janina visited Katja and had a great couple of days with her - during a turtle arribada! That is when...
Dolphin Video – Project Location Osa Peninsula
A couple of weekends ago, Owner of Green Life Volunteers, Janina Schan, went on a trip out to the Golfo Dulce to swim with Dolphins... and it worked out great 🙂 .. We saw a big group of spotted Pantropical Dolphins and a small group of bottle nosed Dolphins. The...
Miron’s Half-Time Report
Teaching in Puerto Jimenez - A report by Miron This being my first experience as a teacher in any sort of environment or subject matter, I was both exited and a little bit nervous. I knew that everything would be completely new to me, so I carefully read through the...
My Internship Experience with Green Life Volunteers
Having spent a few months in Costa Rica traveling and studying Spanish, I had fallen in love with the land that they justifiably call the ‘Rich Coast’. The beauty, the climate, the friendly people and the culture had all lured me in and contributed to my devastation...
Excursion to the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor
The past week, Green Life Volunteer's Intern Judi and me (Green Life Volunteers' Country Manager), went on a trip to the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor. The main reasons for the trip were to pick up Miron and bring him to his new project - a Sustainable Farm in...
New Project Locations
It has been a good year for Green Life Volunteers - we had amazing volunteers who helped to teach English, at the sea-turtle conservation project, in the Monteverde reserve, and at organic farming projects. During the last year we have established new project...