🌿 Winter 2026/27 — Costa Rica & Dominican Republic cohorts depart December 26.  Learn More →
Start Your Journey

🟢 Belize is now open for Summer 2027 and Winter 2027/28. Costa Rica is now open for Winter 2026/27, Summer 2027, and Winter 2027/28 — Integrated Immersion programs accepting applications now. Dominican Republic continues to offer both Integrated Immersion and Single-Track Specialized options. Academic credit support available for all programs.

Early planners get priority placement and first access to dates.

Start Your Journey

What this page is for: it walks you through the choices that make up a Signature 21-Day Immersion, and gives groups designing a custom immersion a place to start.

This page provides prompts, possibilities, and choices to help you explore our Signature 21-Day Immersion Service Options (Pre-Planned / Non-Customized Programs) and begin shaping the experience that is right for you.

For groups designing a customized immersion, these same prompts can serve as a starting point—sparking ideas, identifying priorities, and helping you further develop a program built around your group's unique goals, interests, focus areas, and schedule.

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Planning ahead is smart. We reward it.

Early Planning Applications let you indicate your preferred future cohort before official dates are published. Your $500 deposit is subject to our refund terms.

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How It Works

4 Simple Steps

1

Choose Country & Focus

Select your destination, program focus, and preferred dates below

2

Submit Application

Complete the short application form — takes about 5 minutes

3

Review Pricing & Connect

Receive your acceptance email with exact program total — no surprises

4

Deposit & Begin Planning

$500 Deposit · refund terms apply

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Peace Corps Volunteers

Three Returned Peace Corps Volunteers serve on this team. The Peace Corps posting in Hungary is where this organization started, and it still sets the standard for how long we stay and who decides the work.

Choose Your Destination

We have provided essential services to global communities in need since 1995.

What you are joining

Three Destinations. All Open Now.

Select the destination that calls to you. Published Signature Immersions begin with a 14-day service-learning experience. You may also choose to add a 7-day guided Cultural Exploration and continue into the full 21-day Signature Immersion.

Dominican Republic
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🟡 Early Planning
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Dominican Republic

Health initiatives, coral reef conservation, community development, and one of the Caribbean's most iconic cultural immersion weeks. Programs are open right now for Winter 2026/27, Summer 2027, and Winter 2027/28.

A hiker crossing a wooden plank bridge over a stream in dense Costa Rican jungle
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🟡 Early Planning
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Costa Rica

Rainforest wildlife conservation, sea turtle protection, community development, and a cultural immersion week spanning volcanoes, rappelling, hot springs, and Pacific surf. Programs are open right now for Winter 2026/27, Summer 2027, and Winter 2027/28 — with Early Planning Applications also accepted for 2028, 2029 and 2030.

Belize
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🟡 Early Planning
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Belize

Ecological restoration, wildlife research, community health outreach, school-based education, and a cultural immersion week from the jungle interior to the Belize Barrier Reef — in English, with Kriol and Spanish widely spoken alongside it. Applications are open for Summer 2027 and Winter 2027/28.

Transparent Pricing

Your Investment. No Surprises.

Built by Returned Peace Corps Volunteers—bringing the spirit of Peace Corps immersion into two or three unforgettable weeks.

This isn’t just a trip. It’s the kind of experience you’ll be talking about for the rest of your life.

Two or three weeks. A new country. And local students who don’t just meet you there—they become part of your group.

They share your interests, your ambitions, and your appetite for adventure—and they experience it all with you.

As an example, for nursing-focused immersions, local nursing students live the experience alongside you: staying with the group, sharing breakfast, lunch, and dinner, serving together, exploring together, heading out in the evenings, talking late into the night, laughing, discovering, and experiencing all the moments no itinerary could ever plan.

You don’t just see another country. You begin to know it through the people who call it home.

Somewhere between the first hello, the shared meals, the adventures, the late-night conversations, and the final goodbye, something happens: a place that once felt far away starts to feel personal. Friendships become real. Perspectives change. And you come home with stories, connections, and memories that can stay with you for a lifetime.

Live the days. Own the nights. Share the culture. Build the friendships. Remember it forever.

Choose Your Immersion

Phase One

14 DaysAll Inclusive

14-DAY SERVICE-LEARNING IMMERSION
$2,650–$3,300

Arrive together. Stay connected. Make a difference.

Build lifelong friendships with local students, educators, community members, and fellow travelers while experiencing meaningful service, cultural exchange, and everyday life in a new place.

This is more than a service trip. It is an immersive international experience built around meaningful service, cultural exchange, exploration, friendship, and everyday life in a new place. Participants serve, learn, share meals, explore, socialize, experience evenings and local life, and build relationships with local peers and fellow travelers throughout the immersion.

For nursing-focused immersions, local nursing students become part of the group throughout the experience—sharing service-learning activities, meals, exploration, evenings, social time, and everyday moments together. Rather than simply meeting local students during a scheduled activity, participants experience the destination alongside peers who are studying the same field in another country.

It is the difference between visiting a place and experiencing it with people who call it home.

Each day, participants learn, serve, explore, and grow together with support from local professional mentors, peers, and experienced U.S.-based educators and professionals—including U.S.-licensed health professionals for all health-focused programs.

YOUR PROGRAM FEE INCLUDES:
  • Culturally rich housing
  • All meals
  • In-country transportation and airport transfers
  • Service-learning programming
  • Local students from your field embedded throughout the experience
  • Cultural exchange and community engagement
  • Cultural activities and local partnerships
  • Professional and educational support
  • 24/7 in-country support
Serve together.
Eat together.
Explore together.
Experience it together.

Experience daily life in a supportive group environment where local students and fellow travelers share service, meals, exploration, evenings, conversation, friendship, and the spontaneous moments that often become the most memorable parts of being abroad.

From service and exploration by day to shared meals, evenings out, local music, and nightlife, participants experience much more than scheduled program hours.

NO ADDITIONAL PROGRAM FEES. NO ADDITIONAL MEAL COSTS.

Phase Two

21 DaysAll Inclusive

SIGNATURE 21-DAY IMMERSION
14 DAYS+7 DAYS
$3,950–$4,950
EVERYTHING IN THE 14-DAY SERVICE-LEARNING IMMERSION
PLUS 7 DAYS OF GUIDED CULTURAL IMMERSION & EXPLORATION

Go deeper. Stay longer. Experience more.

Continue the journey as a connected group while discovering more of the people, places, traditions, and everyday life that make each destination unique. The additional seven days create more time for exploration, cultural experiences, shared meals, evenings out, social activities, and deeper friendships with local peers and fellow travelers.

Seven more days. More places. More experiences. More time together.

ALL-INCLUSIVE ON THE GROUND FOR ALL 21 DAYS.

Program fees vary by destination and immersion design, including accommodations, local partnerships, transportation, program activities, cultural exchange opportunities, and the level of professional and faculty support provided.

International airfare, required travel insurance, passports/visas when applicable, and personal purchases are not included.

Program provider & payment details →

$500
Phase One Deposit
Paid exclusively to Help2Serve.Care and credited only toward Phase One.
45 Days
Refund terms apply

Pricing applies to all published 2026–27 immersion departure dates.

Prices exclude international airfare and required travel insurance.

See the FAQ for additional details.

Transparent. Structured. No Surprises. We do not advertise a low base fee and add charges later. Your acceptance email will confirm your selected immersion experience and provide all applicable payment details. Your acceptance email will clearly identify the experience you selected and the amount due within the published price range (e.g., 14-day or 21-day immersion), or the applicable cost for a custom immersion based on your group’s specific program details, including any additional cost for the Spanish Language Week, if selected. Your acceptance email will also outline the deposit requirement, payment instructions, due dates, total program cost, and available payment-plan options, if needed. We are proud to offer an all-inclusive experience. Your program cost includes all meals, scheduled activities, experiences, accommodations, transportation, and program support, so you should not expect additional on-the-ground costs beyond your own discretionary spending. The only standard exclusions are airfare, required travel insurance, and any applicable visa fees.

Why there is a program fee. Help2Serve.Care is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 93-3620516). Your Phase One fee covers only the direct cost of delivering a safe, well-supported immersion — in-country housing, meals, transportation, supplies, mentorship, and on-the-ground safety systems — in support of our charitable mission. Program fees are payments for the participant experience and are not charitable contributions. Tax-deductible gifts to Help2Serve.Care must be made separately through our Donate page. Participants may wish to consult their own tax adviser regarding any separately paid unreimbursed expenses. Cost should never decide who can serve: every participant receives a fundraising playbook, and need-aware scholarships are funded by donors. Make a tax-deductible gift →

Phase Two is optional and available only to participants who complete Phase One, keeping service at the heart of the experience. Program provider & payment details →

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Custom Programs

Not limited to published dates.

Campus clubs, university groups, and mission-focused organizations can design their own custom immersion — aligned to your academic calendar, cohort size, and institutional goals.

Build a Custom Immersion →

Questions?

Help2Serve.Care — Meaningful Service. Global Learning. Fully supported international programs with expert on-the-ground teams in global health, conservation, community development and education, guiding you each step of the way. International service-learning in Belize, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and beyond. 50+ years combined experience, local in-country leadership, 3 Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, global health and academic expertise.
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