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Have A Medical Visit Before Your Trip To Palmas:
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Serving and training missionaries in the remote area of Costa Rica.
Share Christ, Work, Missionary Training School, Teaching - Church Planting. Christian Volunteers, Training Missionaries To The World
Helping feed the poor, providing humanitarian projects and medical needs.
The Comedor, where meals, training, fellowship and medical care take place under one roof (sometimes all at once).
Do NOT consume malaria meds at this point. Malaria is rare in the mission area, but if it is around Ana will know and has the meds to give or recommend that you take them in the states. Ana feels they make a person ill and best to avoid them when there is no threat.
Good to be up to date on vaccinations. When my daughter visited 2 yrs ago, there was flu panic, we couldn't get vaccine in the US, and the flu was present in SJ. However it didn't reach the rural areas. My kid went to student health and they gave her some meds to take if she caught the flu to help with recovery.
The river contains parasites, as do most of the local people. Visitors frequently also encounter them. Ana has meds to address parasites, but if your MD offers presc to address the problem that may be good to take. We've had students arrive in SJ with parasites they picked up at the US airport from some traveler returning home. Ana has a good water filtration system at the mission; it's tested routinely, however a local may offer you a beverage they made with river water, etc. Parasites happen.
See if you can get presc meds for conditions that you may get; for instance if you have chronic sinus infections take a bottle of the antibiotics and other meds you use to recover. Occasional UTI's? See if you can bring a dose of antibiotics for that just in case. And for females, if you have extra room in suitcase, fill it with feminine supplies; these are expensive in CR and the initial culture shock tends to throw cycles off schedule.
It's a bring your own TP country. Get a pack of small (1-2" diameter) rolls in camping supply store. Enclose them in freezer strength zip lock bag. When you get to the mission, there is TP but not on travel route.
Often Student Health has lots of boxes of prenatal vitamins the pharmaceutical sales people leave and they had no use for, so donate. Those are like gold at mission. So please encourage people to ask for sample size everything when they go to med places. We got a whole checked on duffle bag of children's vitamins, nutritional boosters, and sample size lotions from the pediatric office here, and a mini van full of leftover surgical supplies from the hospital; they'd been saving them for a local free clinic but the people never picked them up. It sorted out to 3 duffles which we sent with these 2 girls who flew an airline that allowed free checked bags. Don't hesitate to ask!
TUITION & EXPENSES
- Tuition, Room & Board and Books: Aproximately $1250 for the 10-week school. Please contact us for the current costs for your dates.
- Transportation to and from the mission is your responsibility- This depends on the number of persons arriving at one time. By being in touch with us, we can arrange someone to meet you at the airport.
Other expenses
- Spending money for snacks and drinks: $20 - 35
- Extra for souvenirs and/or possible tourism travel (personal choice): $70 - 95
- Airport exit tax is $26.
