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Welcome to VIDA
Volunteer with Buttercup the Sloth, Aviaros del Caribe Sloth Rescue Center, Costa Rica
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Welcome to Vida, an exciting non-profit humanitarian volunteer program that
offers hands–on, eye-opening, and mind-enriching international volunteer
experiences to students and professionals of medical, dental, veterinary, and
other fields. We offer unparalleled volunteer experiences for those who want to
learn about tropical medicine, discover new cultures, and share with those less
fortunate while providing free health and construction services to improve
quality of life for impoverished people in Central America.
Where We Work
Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama Mexico, Guatemala,
Honduras (2009)
VIDA currently offers the following volunteer programs in the developing
nations of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama. These core volunteer programs will
also open in Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras in 2009. Please click on the
program that best suits your interests and find out how you can become a VIDA
volunteer:
Volunteer helping kids at clinic
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In order to provide consistent services to our communities, VIDA offers
service trips to a limited number of communities in each country in order to
support on-going sustainable development. We return 2 to 3 times a year with
VIDA teams to help provide continuity with regular medical, dental or veterinary
care, and to provide continual maintenance for our community service projects.
VIDA Medical Clinic in Cartago, Costa Rica
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Dr. Amy Lucier and VIDA Volunteer Jarle Stone
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~Leo Buscaglia
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