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 2010
Panama Calendars
PCPF will receive a shipment of Panama calendars on January 13.
This is your last chance to buy the 2010 calendar.
The Volunteer Advisory Council in Panama creates a Panama Calendar each year from
photos submitted by volunteers. PCPF sells the calendars to support
volunteer projects in Panama.
► See
2010 Calendar web page
 PCPF
General FundYour donation funds grants to volunteer projects in Panama and PCPF operating
expenses.
Volunteers count on these grants to provide meaningful and rapid assistance
to Panamanians in their communities.
► See
Donations web page
 Bud
Keith Scholarship Fund for the Blind
Your donation funds scholarships for blind students in Panama.
PCPF has entered into a partnership with Patronato Luz del Ciego (Light
for the Blind Foundation) in Panama City. The Patronato recommends
blind students for stipends that enable them
to go to high school or college. Details at
Bud Keith Scholarship Fund for the Blind.
► See
Donations web page
 I've
Still Got that Fire in My Belly!
Bob Arias from Salem, Oregon, is a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in Panama
on a six month assignment. He works on projects for the United Nations
Development Program
► See
Bob Arias
video
► Read
Peace Corps article |
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 El Bochinche Newsletter
The quarterly newsletter of Peace Corps Panama Friends.
► See December
2009 issue
► See September
2009 issue
► See Archive of El Bochinches
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La Vaina "The toughest revista you'll ever love."
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Archives of La Vaina
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September 2009 Edition:
• John Keffer has returned to his
community after 40 years and gets back to work. Read his "Where the Rubber Meets the Road".
(Page 6.)
• Group 63 - Welcome! (Pg 34.)
• Peace Corps Response. "So much Easier the Second
Time Around", by Tess De los Ríos. (P 35)
• ← Group 60,
"A Warm Farwell", by Dra. Lourdes Rodriguez
(Page 37)
Y mucho más . . .
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 Brian Riley
is
New Country Director in Panama
Brian Riley served as a
Peace Corps Volunteer (Forestry and Natural Resources) in Ecuador from
1985 – 1989.
He served as Peace Corps Country Director in Samoa.
► Read Brian
Riley
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 Aaron Williams is New Peace Corps Director
Aaron S. Williams was sworn in as the eighteenth Director of the Peace Corps on August 24, 2009.
Mr. Williams is the fourth director to have served as a Peace Corps volunteer. He served as a volunteer in the Dominican Republic from 1967 to 1970.
Mr. Williams is fluent in Spanish. He is a graduate of Chicago State University, and has an MBA from the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Williams met his wife Rosa during his service as a volunteer in the Dominican Republic.
► Read
Peace Corps
news release
► View Director Williams'
YouTube Greetings to Peace Corps Community
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A
Celebration
A celebration of Latino and Panamanian art and culture at the
Smithsonian.
► See Smithsonian
Latino Center
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 Bikes for Panamá
PCPF volunteers filled a shipping container with 490 bikes, 11 sewing
machines, and hundreds of helmets, bike racks, handle bars and spare
parts.
The donated bikes were collected in the Washington, DC area by
Bikes for the World and
shipped to La Asociación
Panameña de Industrias de Buena Voluntad.
• See more
photos and videos
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 2008
Reunion in Panamá
45 Years in Panamá -- June 25 - 29, 2008
2008 is Peace Corps' 45th anniversary of entering Panama
and 25 years of service.
The Peace Corps office in Panamá and the Peace Corps Panama Friends alumni group
hosted a Celebration of Peace Corps Panama in Panamá June 25 - 29, 2008.
Click on photos at right for full-size views. More stories and
photos to follow.
 Here are three shared photo sites from the Reunion:
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 Super
Small Project Assistance
Read the latest news about volunteer
Super Small Project
Assistance grants supported by Peace Corps Panama Friends through
the Volunteer Advisory Council in Panamá. |
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 Peace
Corps AIDS Work
Leading the Way to a World Without AIDS
By Tricia Wood Peace Corps Volunteers educated over
10,000 Panamanians on HIV/AIDS in 2006.
These projects included youth health seminars, health promoter trainings,
health fairs, and dominos and volleyball contests to encourage community
participation.
• See
Tricia's article |
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 Crisis
Corps in Panamà
Panamá will soon be getting a little extra oompha from 10 Crisis Corps
Volunteers.
• Panama RPCVs are eligible to apply for Crisis Corps positions.
For example, the Institute for the Development of Women and Children has
requested a CCV to work as a HIV/AIDS Specialist for a 6 month assignment,
starting June 2007.
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 Diablos
Rojos
Nina Muller-Schwartz, PC volunteer in Panama from 1999 to 2001, has
produced a documentary film about Panama buses. Diablos Rojos: Los
Buses de Panama discusses transportation, globalization, and the
expression of Panamanian cultural identity.
Nina is now a cultural anthropologist with
a specialty in Panama. See film synopsis at
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 Ngabe Coffee School
Third-year Peace Corps Volunteer Bryan Richardson coordinated the Ngabe Coffee School, a partnership between indigenous coffee producer cooperatives and leading producers of Panama's high-quality specialty coffees.
• See Bryan
Richardson story |
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 Farmer
Training Supported by PCPF
Volunteer
Pete Caligiuri
thanks PCPF for donation for training of farmers in rice tank and fish
tank production.
• See Photos
and email from Pete |
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 Pajaro Jai
Peace Corps Panama Friends hosted the Pajaro Jai in Washington, DC, on its maiden voyage to the U.S.
She was sailed to the U.S. by a crew including Embera-Wounaan from
Panama and Chris Meyer, who just completed his volunteer service in
Panama.
• See
Washington 2006 Visits
• See
Pajaro Jai
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 David Peterson Returns to Panama
After a hiatus of 30 years, Group 14 member David Peterson returned to the Republica de Panama in March 2005.
Trip included river rafting in Boquete.
• See
David's report and photos
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 Native
Future
Protecting Cultures Conserving Land
Returned Panama PCV's have
founded Native Future,
a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization to work with the Wounaan in Panama to protect
rainforest and prevent the cultural extinction of a unique indigenous
people.
• See
www.nativefuture.org
for more information
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 Legends
Steve Herrick's article describes
his return to Agua Buena after 35 years.
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See page 24 in the April - June 2006 La Vaina
(Photo left- Steve Herrick in Agua Buena, 1971.)
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 Happy
Birthday Peace Corps!
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed the executive order creating the Peace Corps. Since then, over 182,000 Americans have served in 138 countries, creating a lasting legacy of goodwill overseas and commitment to service and positive social change at home.
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Highlights of the 45th anniversary celebration
Click photo for full-size view.
From La Vaina 45th Anniversary Issue, April-June 2006.
• See La Vaina home page.
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FARMS Leadership Program
August 2005
Help bring the third goal back.
Ten high school students participating in the FARMS
Leadership Program in Sonoma County, CA, will complete their year of
participation in the program with a ten day visit to the Lago Alajuela
region of Panama in July or August of 2006. There, they will help
construct a flooded rice paddy, a sustainable alternative to slash and
burn agriculture.
This is an "agro-eco workism" type of trip, "beyond
eco-tourism", and filled with good honest work. The trip will be hosted by
Sustainable Harvest International, and coordination with Peace Corps
Panama will also be sought.
If you are able to help us meet our funding
goals, raising $10,000 to offset travel costs (and provide to $3,000 of
that amount to the community we will visit for their granja), or would
like to be involved in next summer trip or future visits, please contact
RPCV Rick Kaye at (707) 569-1448 or rickk@sonic.net.
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 Sustainable
Harvest International
Florence Reed, PCV in Panamá 1991 –
1993, founded Sustainable Harvest International in 1997 to address the global issues of
poverty and deforestation in Central America.
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