You've made it! You've finished Peace Corps service.

Now, how do you stay in touch with Panama and Peace Corps friends?

We are Peace Corps Panama Friends, the alumni group for former Peace Corps Panama volunteers and staff. We are a country-of-service affiliate of the National Peace Corps Association. (Neither we nor the NPCA have any official link to the Peace Corps.)

PCPF was formed 20 years ago by returned volunteers from the first Peace Corps groups to serve in Panama. Since then we've had reunions, published our newsletter, El Bochinche, and raised more than $30,000 for conservation projects in Panama. In 1996, we established a web site -- www .panamapcv.net -- to serve as the web home for PCPF.

We want you to join PCPF. No dues, no meetings required. Just stay in touch with us so that we can keep up with you.

PCPF is your organization. You're closer to Peace Corps and life in Panama. You're more than welcome to work through PCPF to create programs to help and link Panama and returned volunteers. You can use the PCPF and the PCPF mailing list to link to fellow volunteers.

How do you join?

Simply add your name to our El Bochinche mailing list.  See the PCPF website www.panamapcv.net.  Send no dues. (We don't have any expenses. Our fund raising activities support themselves.) You can also email us the membership information to: .

Visit our web site at: www .panamapcv.net.org. (If you forget our URL, simply Google "peace corps panama". We are the first listing.) Send us material and pictures to publish on the website -- about Panama, your trip home, and your new lives as RPCVs.

Sincerely,