What's Happening at Help2Serve.Care

September 2026

To the Nursing Class of 2027 and Beyond: You Earned This Moment. Now Make It Matter.

A Distinguished Invitation to Join or Lead

Celebrate one of the most important milestones of your life through international service, global health learning, professional reflection, cultural immersion, and the transition from nursing student to professional nurse.

14 days of structured service-learning + 7 days of guided cultural immersion and exploration.

One graduation. One extraordinary transition. One experience you can carry throughout your nursing career.

Leadership Continuity

Leadership Scope: Cohort Leader responsibilities are pre-departure only. No in-country clinical, supervisory, operational, or post-departure duties are required.

You worked for years for the moment they call your name.

Graduation recognizes what you have completed. What comes next begins to define the nurse you become.

Take the knowledge, resilience, relationships, and purpose that brought you through nursing school—and carry them into service, global health, cultural learning, and the beginning of your professional life.

More Than a Graduation Trip

The experience is designed to support growth in:

professional identity · global health perspective · culturally responsive care · leadership · service-learning · reflection · communication · transition to practice

The Two Tracks

Participants may change tracks at any time before departure.

Discover the Graduation Immersion →  ·  Lead your graduating class →

August 2026

Belize Is Open 🇧🇿

Help2Serve.Care - Belize is live, and the 2027 cohorts are accepting applications.

Belize is no longer on the horizon. It is our newest active destination, joining the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica, with cohorts departing in Summer 2027 and Winter 2027/28.

What matters most is that the service work itself is not new. Help2Serve.Care - Belize is built on trusted partnerships with local schools, clinics, conservation organizations, and community groups whose roots in the region date back decades — relationships rooted in outreach, education, wildlife stewardship, regenerative farming, and land conservation. Opening a destination does not start that work. It gives our participants a way to join it.

In practice that means volunteers and local land stewards working side by side on restoration, night surveys that are structured, documented, and contribute to the long-term conservation record of the region, classroom support where educators ask for it, and community health initiatives that connect volunteer skills with needs identified on the ground. Fourteen days of structured, academically grounded service immersion, followed by an optional seven-day cultural exploration phase — in a country where English is the official language, so no second language is required.

Explore Belize →  ·  Apply for a 2027 cohort →  ·  See the 7-day cultural exploration →

August 2026 · Leadership

Meet Jared Sidman, Country Director — Help2Serve.Care - Belize

His introduction, in his own words:

I am excited to share that I have stepped into the role of Country Director for Help2Serve.Care - Belize.

The path here was not exactly planned.

I originally chose Information Sciences and Technology as my college major because, at the time, I was mostly thinking about money. But what stayed with me from those years wasn't the coursework. It was an unpaid internship that had nothing to do with my degree, mentoring kids in a nonprofit after-school program.

I remember two kids in particular, both under 10, casually telling me about hearing gunshots the day before—and then going right back to talking about playing and having fun. I couldn't shake that conversation. Circumstances like that should never feel ordinary.

A few years later, sitting at a desk job that left me wanting something more, I found myself thinking about those kids again. That eventually led me back to school for a teaching credential, and then abroad.

So in 2015 I left to serve in Costa Rica on an international service program. It clicked immediately: the people, the purpose, and the shared challenges and joys of finding our way together in a new place and culture.

Costa Rica · 2015

Jared’s own names for these photographs, kept as he filed them.

That experience ultimately led me to serve with the Peace Corps in Micronesia and helped spark more than a decade of work with AmeriCorps, underserved schools, and small nonprofit organizations around the world.

Somewhere along that journey, I landed in Belize.

And Belize became home.

I met my wife here. We built a cabin in the jungle beside a river. We started a family here, surrounded by a community that continues to remind me what it means for people to show up for one another.

Building a life · Cayo, Belize

The cabin in the letter, from frame to home.

Today, I live in Belize full time, and I'm incredibly grateful to begin this next chapter as Country Director for Help2Serve.Care - Belize. There's something especially meaningful about the full-circle nature of it: I first found international service as a volunteer myself, and now I have the opportunity to help build this work through Help2Serve.Care, here in the country I call home.

In this role, I look forward to building meaningful relationships among Belizean community partners, visiting volunteers, faculty, and students—ensuring that each program is locally grounded, thoughtfully coordinated, and responsive to the priorities of the communities we serve alongside. Most of all, I hope to help participants experience the same sense of connection and purpose that first changed the direction of my own life.

Belize · Now

Explore Belize →  ·  Apply for a 2027 cohort →

June 2026

Winter 2026/27 Cohorts Now Enrolling — Costa Rica & Dominican Republic

Applications are open for our Winter 2026/27 cohorts in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, departing December 26, 2026. The application window closes October 25, 2026, and early applicants receive priority placement. Explore programs and apply →

May 2026

Campus Club Program Opens for Student Campus Club Founders

Students can now found a Help2Serve.Care Campus Club at their university. As a Student Campus Club Founder, you receive the Campus Club Starter Kit, onboarding, branding materials, and ongoing mentorship. Start a club →

May 2026

Founding Faculty Fellow Program Now Accepting Inquiries

Faculty can now join as Founding Faculty Fellows to lead group immersions — with travel and program costs covered, an honorarium, and a research and publication pathway built in. Learn about the Founding Faculty Fellow Program →