Costa Rica Medical Mission
Making a difference by being the difference
JULY, 1 - 10 2025

Join our Medical Mission this June! Provide essential healthcare and health education to children
with disabilities and their families. Work with passionate professionals, embrace new cultures, and make aprofound impact.

By sharing the experience with colleagues from your same profession or similar and being in an
international environment, in another country with an unfamiliar geographical space and different
beliefs, behavior, and culture you’ll play a fundamental role in providing specialized healthcare to local people.

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Training pediatric disability

Online Classes

In order to provide the best quality of services to the children in need we havedeveloped a Training in Pediatric Disability (TPD) for our volunteers. The TPD will bedelivered through On-line classes before the Mission followed by On-site guidance &supervision.

The On-line clases are divided in 4 blocks of 1.5-2 hours where the main concepts anduseful knowledge of Pediatric Disability will be covered. It will be very practicalorientated mainly on treatment tools which could be applied to the majority of thechildren that the volunteer will be expose to during the Mission.

On-site Guidance

The On-site part of the TPD will be based on clinical guidance and supervision by ourTeam of Senior osteopaths with more than 10 years of Clinical experience working withchildren with special needs

How we study disability

Conditions

Introduction to the most common
presentations (CP,
Hydrocephalus, Microcephaly,
Autism, Developmental Delay)

Goals

Main symptoms associated with
the different conditions (epileps,
convulsions, reflux, constipation,
breathing difficulties, spasticity,
atroph)

Clinic

Clinic supervision is a key
element which helps to integrate
all the knowledge

Conditions

Joint mobilization, Fascial
release, Vis real balancing,
Cranial normalization

Programming

DAY 1 - 5

Helthcare assistance at School for Children with Severe Disabilities

DAY 1 - 5

Helthcare assistance at School for Children with Severe Disabilities

We would work at:

  • School for children with disabilities
  • Homes

Team Leader:

  • Dr. Jorge Aranda

Included

Accomodation
Breakfast & lunch
Local transport
Uniform
Certificate
Cultural immersior
Training

Not Included

Flights
Insurance
Airport transfer

Dr. Jorge Aranda

President of the Foundation

Programming

Hands with Heart is a registered charity that provides free healthcare
services to children and adults with disabilities who have limited or no
access to healthcare. The organization was founded in 2016 and has
since collaborated with health professionals from around the world who
seek to help patients and develop a volunteer program in which they can
expand their knowledge.

64 Missions
506 Volunteers
3029 Beneficiaries
5548 Sessions