Founded in 2021 by the Costa Rican owned and run travel company Origen Escapes, the Origen Foundation is a way to give back, not just to the environments, individuals and communities that have played a role in the company’s success, but to the planet as a whole. We will do this on a national level first, through the funding of learning programmes, scholarships, and conservation projects across Costa Rica.
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We are striving to provide the rich soil in which the seeds of change can grow, harnessing the power of sustainability and the transformative capabilities of tourism to speed up the creation of a society like this – not just one but many, all over the world.
Founded in 2021 by the Costa Rican owned and run travel company Origen Escapes, the Origen Foundation is a way to give back, not just to the environments, individuals and communities that have played a role in the company’s success, but to the planet as a whole. We will do this on a national level first, through the funding of learning programmes, scholarships, and conservation projects across Costa Rica.
Origen Escapes boasts a unique skillset in the knowledge and expertise of its founders, board members and team, who have come together to found an NGO that not only contributes financially but has the ability to catalyze powerful resources for the benefit of initiatives that have a direct impact on sustainability, conservation and biodiversity. Hand in hand with this work are our own projects, such as the Origen Learning Experience.
This human-centric learning journey uses nature and sustainable tourism as a tool to kick-start a new generation of Costa Rican change-makers, bio- literate visionaries, leaders, and pioneers, who will not only provide sustainability ideas and innovations to the tourism industry but will benefit the world.
The Chrysalis learning journey aims to re-envision the tourism sector by using nature as the classroom and an already developed, thriving, sustainable tourism industry as the backbone. We are aligning it with Costa Rica standing as a guardian of the environment while at the same time boosting the wellbeing and prospects of Costa Rica’s brightest and most ambitious young people.
The Chrysalis is a program that accepts 16 students in each cohort. These students are adventurous, ambitious high achievers, those looking to share their passion in ways that will have a tremendous and positive impact on the world. Throughout the program, they are educated and nurtured in the skills necessary to forge successful careers and essential core life skills that will help them find and connect with a higher sense of self.
Based from our experimental classroom, this human-centered experience marks the first steps on a journey from ordinary to extraordinary:
- The first block includes an intensive education curriculum in 10 core skills, from human to business-centric.
- The second block, building on this solid foundation, students enter the Ocean Mastery and the Land Explorer. Two core programs build upon the applied knowledge of the fantastic conservation programs based in Costa Rica and the experience of Origen Escapes.
- The final stage focuses on experience. Putting knowledge into action. Here, placed with a company under a mentorship, each student will work and learn, genuinely mastering their new trade. Upon successfully completing the program, they are guaranteed a job.
We have already run the first generation of this outstanding program during a global pandemic. With a success rate of 70%, seven of the participants today have a job they would not have dreamed of and more importantly, they are leaders, people who can and do achieve results through an ethically and sustainably focused approach that will benefit tourism, communities, the country, and the world.
Origen Escapes donated $52,000 of its profits in 2021 to the First Learning Experience.
