Why VIDA?
Going in search of Jaguars:
VIDA was founded over two decades ago to help promote the benefits of environmental education and conservation thorough empowering a volunteer workforce with the opportunities of personal, social and cultural growth, increasing its capacity of organization, social vision, self-esteem and desires of collaboration, through an experience of work in rural and urban communities.
The work done by VIDA provides volunteers with a series of activities that have an environmental and social emphasis and provides an educational experience for the participants.
One of VIDA's projects works to support the Santa Elena Forest Reserve and the Monteverde Cloud Forest. The Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve in Monteverde, Costa Rica is a project in which VIDA mixes conservation, eco-tourism and education. It is an example at the national level of conservation of a protected area that is administered and managed by a small community with their inhabitants' direct benefit.
During your visit you have the opportunity to:
See the result of the work done by VIDA in the Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve in Monteverde
Experience the sights and sounds of the rainforest both by day and by night
Trek deep into the jungle where monkeys, sloths, parrotts and other spectacular wildlife can be seen
Learn more about the delicate eco-system in the depth of the rainforest
The environmental association VIDA, founded in 1988, develops projects and programs in three specific areas: environmental education, conservation and voluntary work both formal and informal in order to cover the necessities of the population by means of all its programs.
VIDA promotes activities, programs and projects to bring awareness to the population about the importance of the ecosystems, the suitable handling and the rational use of the natural resources. In order to improve the quality of life, favoring and fortifying the sustainable development.
VIDA aims:
To develop projects and programs the support environmental education & conservation.
To provide voluntary workers, both formal and informal to help provide the necessities of the population
To develop community and tourism-based conservation initiatives.
To build awareness of the benefits of conservation in teenagers, youngsters and adults through their projects
How VIDA helps:
- By means of voluntary work, VIDA offers national and foreign participants, opportunities of personal, social and cultural growth, increasing its capacity of organization, social vision, self-esteem and desires of collaboration, through an experience of work in rural or urban communities.
- VIDA develops research projects that bring scientific contributions to support the environmental & socio-economic development of the country.
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