Santa Lucia | Volunteer Global

Santa Lucia

Introduction

Santa Lucía has been welcoming volunteers, both groups and individuals, since 2000 and our volunteer programme continues to play a crucial role in enabling the development of our sustainable ecotourism operation and of our conservation and community projects. The hard work, support and enthusiasm of so many volunteers have helped to reinforce for us the value of our cloud forest reserve and the importance of its continued protection.

Types of Projects

We currently need your help to support our ecotourism project. This could include:

* Organic gardening - the garden supplies the lodge with fresh produce
* Trail maintenance - essential to ensure that the trails don't cause erosion and that they are safe to hike
* Agroforestry - maintaining our organic coffee, sugar cane and bananas and making panela (sugar) and coffee (seasonal) the traditional way
* Orchid Garden - we need help maintaining and enlarging our orchidarium
* There is also work with children - teaching English, environmental education, and other after-school enrichment programmes as well as working with under-fives