Adventure Travel with Sustainable Horizon

  Costa Rica

• North Western Region: 
Alajuela,  Heredia,  Guanacaste,  San Isidro de Heredia
• Central Pacific Coast: 
Puntarenas,  Manuel Antonio
• Eastern Lowlands: 
Guapiles
• Monteverde: 
Monteverde

  Ecuador

• Quito: 
Quito
• Galapagos Islands: 
Galapagos Islands
• All Other Regions of Ecuador: 
Rural Areas

  Nicaragua

San Juan del Sur

Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks and 9-12 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks

Description: Sustainable Horizon is a unique international service and travel organization providing authentic and alternative volunteer opportunities throughout Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Ecuador and Argentina. Each program is customized to individual or group interests ensuring the most successful and meaningful blend of service, travel, cultural and adventure. All SH programs are dedicated to community service, sustainable development, environmental conservation and voluntourism. Uniting participants with world cultures SH challenges participants to think, grow and learn about themselves and their surroundings through service and cultural immersion.

Build a program with SH to restore the reefs below the crystal blue waters in the Bay Islands of Honduras, lend a hand with community development and eco-tourism initiatives in Nicaragua, work on sea turtle hatcheries and iguana reserves in Costa Rica or assist with greenhouse operations and native habitat reconstruction in the Galapagos Islands to name a few. SH offers a variety of programs for people with an adventurous spirit who want to explore the world and lend a helping hand.

From program inception to completion, a Sustainable Horizon representative works closely with participants to develop and execute a customized international volunteer experience striving to meet and exceed all goals and expectations. A Sustainable Horizon representative will also be present in-country for volunteer support and assistance for the duration of the program. In providing personalized programs, our volunteers are ensured a successful, challenging, meaningful and memorable experience abroad.

Join in our mission to improve the world and the lives of others. Experience a new and vibrant culture by being a part of it!

Highlights:
1. Customized Programs & Personalized Program Development
Before traveling with Sustainable Horizon, one of our experienced team members will work with you and/or your group one-on-one to create a customized program that parallels your specific goals and interests.

2. Choose your own travel dates!
We cater our programs around you. Choose program dates that best suit your schedule. If you are a college student, you can build a program around your school's spring break, winter break or summer vacation. You can even create a graduation exploration with SH.

3. Program Variety
Whether you have an interest in the environment, public health, recreation and athletics, education, wildlife conservation, appropriate technology, arts & crafts, teaching, sustainable and community development, eco-tourism or even bringing your own brain child to fruition we have the ability to make it happen! Add our Spanish language classes to your program to enhance your immersion experience.

4. 24/7 In-country SH Representative
We provide you with assistance all day everyday. Any question or concern you may have,
big or small, as an individual your SH in-country Representative is just a phone call away, and f you are traveling with a group your personal SH guide will be right by your side.

5. Be a SH Representative and receive a trip paid by us!
By application or simply upon the completion of your SH program, you are eligible to become involved in our mission to recruit others to get involved in international voluntourism. Become a representative in your community or on your campus and recruit your friends, family and colleagues to participate in a SH program. You will receive great benefits for your efforts! Build your own group trip and get your entire trip paid in full by SH! Contact us for more information.

6. Community Relations
Sustainable Horizon values the intimacy of our partnerships with each local community. We work closely with community leaders and members to recognize their specific set of objectives, goals and desires. We connect volunteers with meaningful placements ensuring the greatest benefit for both the community and volunteer.

7. Additional Highlights
* For every person recommended, a discount is rewarded toward your program.
* Volunteers have the option to gain college credit while traveling abroad.

Minimum Education: High School

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: A typical Sustainable Horizon volunteer continues to redefine the meaning of "Wanderlust" while maintaining a commitment to community service, sustainable development and voluntourism. Our participants welcome the challenge of the unknown and undiscovered and thrive on exploration and conservation.

Age Range: 18- 35

This Program is open to World Wide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel Independently Or in Groups

Typically Participants Work Independently Or in Groups of 2-15

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application

Post Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Exit DebriefingAbroad
• Job and Internship Network
• Re-Entry Debriefing at Home

Sustainable Horizon's Mission Statement: To create authentic volunteer opportunities promoting sustainability through community service and environmental conservation. Participants act as catalysts for sustainable development and are dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for those living in the present and the future. Sustainable Horizon provides participants with a global experience in which they will not only gain a sense of awareness and respect for the natural world and the different cultures that inhabit it, but also immerse themselves in those cultures and give a helping hand to those in need.

Year Founded: 2003