Global Volunteers' host organization in Costa Rica are:
1) The Cooperativa de Artesanas de Santa Elena y Monteverde (CASEM). CASEM is a nonprofit crafts cooperative dedicated to enhancing the economic and emotional well being of local women. CASEM began in 1982, through the efforts of eight women from the Monteverde community. Since then, CASEM has grown to 140 artisans, 10 of them men. Many of the artisans live in the communities surrounding Monteverde. The goal of CASEM is to create an environment where the associates can work in their homes for the ecological, social and economic development of their families and the community as a whole.
2) The village communities of Los Tornos, Cebadilla and San Luis
3) APAPNEM (Association for the Elderly and Disabled)
