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LOCATION:  Tamarindo, Costa Rica

HOUSING STIPEND:  Provided to all accepted candidates

AREAS OF NEED:  Hotel & Restaurant Management, Recreational Tourism & Hospitality, Engineering Sciences, Education, English, Spanish, Business, Political Science,  Latin American Studies, Biological Sciences, Environmental Conservation & Forestry and much more...

VOLUNTEERING:  What an excellent way to give students that much needed advantage before entering the job market. SDPUS is involved with many international development projects, with organizations and universities all throughout Costa Rica. Safely travel and experience Costa Rica, while also enhancing your resume with the help of our dedicated and professional intern immersion team,  in one of the most beautiful and popular surf towns in all of Costa Rica. Pura Vida!

START DATES:  We offer a rolling calendar throughout the year, with new sessions beginning on every Monday of each week. No other study abroad program in Costa Rica provides such an innovative, unique overall experience.

OUR ORGANIZATION:  Tamarindo internships are coordinated and guided with nonprofit organizations and for profit businesses in the Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica. Most internships are non paid, but our organizations' volunteer works in the local communities help offset overall travel costs for visiting students. By utilizing our relationships in the local CR region, we are able coordinate internships with many of the beautiful resorts, as well as the local vacation rental owners, who offer their luxurious vacation accommodations at a fraction of the regular tourist market costs. 

THE AREA:  Tamarindo is a small, rapidly growing beach town environment. Our resident director will facilitate the coordination of each internship with local Costa Rican businesses or a governmental office, from start to finish. SDPUS will pre-coordinate and ensure all your safety and transportation needs, seeing that each intern is safely transported from site to site. Our instructors provide the necessary professional expertise, and Tamarindo provides the ultimate student intern setting to have a completely fulfilling cultural and educational experience.

Tamarindo is a fantastic beach town that provides all of the necessary resources and infrastructure to safely & effectively meet all your home institutions (university) academic requirements. In your spare time, the beautiful Pacific beaches are just a few steps away, creating the ultimate study abroad atmosphere. Why live in San Jose, only visiting these pristine beaches on weekends? See them everyday with SDPUS, and at a fraction of the cost!

Our student internships in Tamarindo were created to enhance student skills and marketability, but SDPUS internships also are developed and promoted to help deliver a needed community service to the very underserved Tico population, within the rural areas of Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The small towns, such as Villareal & Santa Rosa- they are the focus of SDPUS's programming and works.

   Students can make San Jose home base-by working with one of the many urban based study abroad programs," and stay in their small and crowded dorm-like rooms or visiting students can choose to work with SDPUS in one of the beautiful rural beach communities of Costa Rica, staying in one of our upscale properties, in a very safe and youthful beach environment.

When you inquire more about SDPUS's beach internships, you will see why the choice is made simple, and why SDPUS coordinated programs are quickly developing into Costa Rica's most effective, beneficial and luxurious study abroad program for hundreds of students from universities, from every corner and region of Canada and the USA. 

SDPUS helps coordinate many community organization projects in Costa Rica, for the betterment of all, locals and visitors alike. Our goal is the creation of win-win community type initiatives, that have great benefits for all, including Costa Rica's most pristine and protected wildlife environments, like Las Baulas National Park.

SDPUS strives to help keep Costa Rica Clean & Green. SDPUS relies on support from our vast network of local & visiting professors, student interns & business affiliates to help continue the push of our ambitious endeavor in Costa Rica.

                                                                                                                         THE ANSWER IS MADE SIMPLE- SDPUS STUDY ABROAD!

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