Costa Rica Volunteers Return to West Tennessee

Hollow Rock-Bruceton, Huntingdon, Camden Students Participated

By The Banner News Team • July 9, 2024 • Updated June 23, 2026

From the Jul 9, 2024 e-Edition

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Kaidyn Williams graduated from Hollow Rock-Bruceton Central High School this year and is heading to boot camp for the Coast Guard in a few weeks. But she spent several days in between in Costa Rica where she, along with Global Citizen Adventure Corps volunteers, helped a local nonprofit secure safe habitats for the sick, injured and orphaned animals there. She also took time out as a two-time softball state champ to explain the sport and coach her fellow worker Pablo Alonso Rojas (seen here in the background) to his first grand slam.

COSTA RICA — Students from Bruceton, Huntingdon, Camden and Memphis discovered that summer means rainy season in steamy tropical Costa Rica. But armed with serving hearts and good senses of humor, participants in the latest Global Citizen Adventure Corps program overcame the weather, interacted with children who needed their attention, erected fencing and secured habitats for animals needing protection, and even squeezed in a lesson in softball.

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