Fields of Growth is happy to announce a new venture! We are now teaming with Student Cultural Exchange to provide an fun, educational, and life-changing experience of Surf-Serve, Lax-Learn!
Through our relationship with Student Cultural Exchange, Fields of Growth now offers a trip to Costa Rica to experience the Pura Vida lifestyle! On these trips, participants will have the ability to stay in the Playa Samara area where they will have the ability to take surfing lessons, experience the joy of helping others through working with CREAR, help coach local Costa Ricans as well as players for the Costa Rica National Team in San Jose, and throughout the experience, participants will learn much from these amazing people.
Playa Samara is the picturesque surfing location with a beautiful cove and people. This amazing beach provides for excellent waves to learn how to surf and experience part of the Pura Vida lifestyle of Costa Rica.
CREAR is a non-profit after-school program which provides additional education for the youth of Playa Samara. The mission for La Asociacion CREAR is to provide a venue where children and young people can develop their talents through education initiatives, while providing them with life-long skills that will provide them with the opportunity for a wide range of employment opportunities. A major component of CREAR is to reinforce the environmental and social consciousness of the students to promote the awareness to others.
As with Fields of Growth’s work in Uganda, lacrosse is by no means the primary focus of our trips, though it is a strong component. Participants in Surf-Serve, Lax-Learn will have the opportunity to share their love of lacrosse with the local children of Playa Samara as well as with the Costa Rican National Team located in the capital city of San Jose. Participants will have the opportunity to run clinics and lessons for the national team in an effort to build relationships through sharing the joys of our lives.
