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CELA Belize ยท Experiences

What you can build in Belize.

These are the clinical sites, field visits, and partners our team in Belize works with. Faculty build custom programs from them, and our open-enrollment programs use them too. Don't see what your course needs? Ask us.

Nursing student taking a patient's pulse in Belize

Health and clinical

  • Observation at community clinics and local hospitals
  • Rotations in public and private hospitals and medical centers
  • Home visits with community health workers
  • School health programs
  • Meetings with national and international health organizations
  • The Belizean Ministry of Health, through our Memorandum of Understanding
  • Lectures by experts in Indigenous health
  • A medicinal garden visit with a local healer
Student with a horse on a farm in Belize

Animals and agriculture

  • Working farms with a Belizean veterinarian
  • Veterinary examination techniques on large animals
  • A free small animal clinic
  • A sheep farm, with hands-on practice like suturing
  • Specimen analysis in the lab
  • The Belize Agricultural Health Authority lab
  • The Ministry of Agriculture, through our working relationship
  • A cacao farm and traditional chocolate making
Student group at a wildlife rescue center in Belize

Wildlife and conservation

  • The Belize Zoo, home to orphaned and rehabilitated wild animals since 1983
  • The Community Baboon Sanctuary and its Black Howler Monkeys
  • Belize Bird Rescue and a raptor center
  • A night visit to the Belize Zoo
  • Camera trapping, GPS and VHF tracking, and behavioral data collection
  • Crocodile research
  • The Belize Botanic Gardens
  • Friends of Conservation and Development, PACT, and the Forest Department
Students snorkeling on the reef in Belize

Marine

  • Daily snorkel surveys on the coral reef
  • Marine research techniques
  • Conservation fieldwork at protected coastal and marine sites
  • A day on the Caribbean coast
Students learning to make tortillas in a Belizean home

History, culture, and community

  • A guided tour of the Xunantunich Maya site
  • Maya archaeology in the field
  • The National Institute of Culture and Heritage
  • The Tumul K'in Center of Learning in Toledo
  • Conversations with Maya land rights leaders
  • San Ignacio and its town market
  • Jungle rivers and an organized wilderness tour
  • Horseback riding

Tell us what your course needs.

We'll put together a proposal built from these, and anything else your group needs, usually in about a week.

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