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Thanks to your generous donations, we are continuing to make a difference in Panama long after our return from service!
 PCPF makes donations on your behalf to volunteers serving in Panama through the Peace Corps Partnership Program and Super Small Project Assistant Grants
The Peace Corps Partnership Program allows PCVs to request donations to help with their projects. All Partnership requests go to the Peace Corps Headquarters and the project is placed on the Peace Corps website,
www.peacecorps.gov.
You, through PCPF, have contributed to the following Peace Corps Panama projects:
- Filter and the reserve tank in the communities of Tararindo and Zimba. The community will provide all the labor and some materials.
- Additional water intake and connect the remaining families in the community of Bahia Azul in Bocas del Toro. The community provides some construction materials, all the labor, and transportation.
- Construction of the school library, as well as new books and a computer for the community of El Cortezo located inside the buffer zone of the La Tronosa Forestry Reserve in Los Santos.
 The Super Small Project Assistant (SSPA) Grants are coordinated by the Peace Corps Volunteer Action Committee (VAC) in Panama. These grants are given for small amounts to help supplement project or activity funding.
PCFP has supported the following SPA projects:
- Soil Testing in 6 different Communities in and around Boquete, Chiriqui in order to better productions
- Peace Corps Eco-group that travels around putting on ecological fairs at schools in Bocas del Toro. Captain Planet theme to teach kids about Air, Water, Soil, Trees, and Fire.
See photos on this page.
- HIV/AIDS seminar community of Cañas in Los Santos.
- Seminar in a 3 phase fish/rice tank project in the Comarca Ngabe Bugle. The communities, all near San Felix, are: Cerro Iglesias, Lajero Arriba, Sardina Hortiga Arriba, Chami, Hato Horcòn.
- Teach the future farmers of in Santiago Veraguas at the (Instituto Panameño de Habilitacion Especial) how to make and use organic fertilizer in the form of bocachi, using materials such as molasses and gallinasa. Chicken cages for a chicken project and to assist community environmental group to start vivero project
- Reforestation workshop in Los Asientos de Pedasi, Los Santos for Panamanian farmers that have already been able to plant over 9000 trees.
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