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CPI Spanish and Corporate Social Responsibility

At CPI Spanish, the sense of dedication we feel towards our students, staff, and community – both local and global – has been and remains a priority in our over-30-year existence. To this day, CPI Spanish continues to keep present and align our standards with that of Corporate Social Responsibility practices, seeking to ethically contribute to economic development, while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families, and the local community and society at large.

With the goal of fulfilling our vision, CPI Spanish has not only set both short term and long term goals to facilitate our contribution to the micro and macro well-being of those near and far, but we also attempt to engage our student body in providing opportunities for them to participate in creating a better world. During their time at CPI, students are able to enrich their cultural experience while also playing an active role in supporting the local communities where our staff and students live and study: Heredia, Monteverde, and Flamingo.

"For CPI, growth as an organization goes hand-in-hand with efforts to enhance our community; as such, we encourage our students to get involved with the community by volunteering".

Community Investment:

Host Family

CPI has organized a network of families dedicated to cultural exchange. The homestay model permits students to stay with a local family in order to experience typical Costa Rican culture. Sharing in the daily lives of Costa Ricans, while maximizing interaction and daily communication with a host family, not only helps the student linguistically and culturally but also helps the families expand their own global reference and learn more about the world through cultural ambassadors—our students. The host family typically consists of stay-at-home moms, a father, and their children. The remunerative nature of the situation permits the mother to work from the home—should she so desire. Many host families have shared that hosting students has permitted them to improve their homes and/or put their children through university.

Boruca Indigenous Group

The Boruca, one of eight indigenous groups native to Costa Rica, consisting of about 2,660 members in the southwestern section of the Puntarenas province, are provided transportation and accommodations to visit CPI twice yearly (when few tourists visit their reserve). The visit provides a wonderful opportunity for the group share their story with our students and sell their hand made merchandise—one of a kind artisan crafts from which their livelihood is based.

Environmentally FriendlY "We Recycle"

At CPI, we encourage our students and employees to recycle, not only at CPI but also at home by asking that recyclable items be brought to CPI.

As we practice recycling at CPI, we encourage our community to do the same. We have given presentations to our host families and local students concerning the importance of recycling and options for allocating their recyclable material.

Local Organizations

Within each of the communities where CPI is located collaborative links have been established with carefully selected organizations for financial or support in volunteer hours. For example, financing for a local athlete or soccer team, artistic or conservation endeavors, as well as NGOs; regarding the latter, CPI Spanish has a very close relationship with both the Costa Rican Humanitarian Foundation and Siempre Amigos.