In Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic you'll have the opportunity to serve in one of the following ministries: Appropriate Technology, Dentistry, Education, Health Care, Media & Communications, Microfinance, Physical Therapy, Special Education, Women’s Social Work, Men’s Sports, or Women’s Sports.

Students International focuses on short-term missions that “help without hurting,” by placing our students with long-term missionaries who are fully integrated into the community and who aren’t taking jobs away from local laborers. Our style is relational and is therefore centered around our long-standing presence within the communities where we work. This may be challenging for people who expect to see immediate "results" in evangelism and project completion. As a result, however, we see local and outreach participants transformed into the likeness of Christ.

Known in the Dominican Republic as the city of eternal springs, Jarabacoa is located in the “Dominican Alps” in the center of the country, just 45 minutes from the Santiago International Airport. When you’re not out serving at your ministry site you’ll stay on base and sleep in cabins. For the excursion, teams can go whitewater rafting or hike to one of the 3 nearby waterfalls.

For more than 26 years, we’ve sent over 25,000 students to serve alongside our full-time missionaries in hard-to-reach communities. Those students have helped transform thousands of lives for the better. And so can you.