Buenos Vecinos de Boquete

Buenos Vecinos de Boquete at year’s end is pleased to report that we continue our efforts to feed the needy in our community, and we could not have done that without your amazing generosity! On average, we are providing nonperishable food to 95 families a month, with a monthly expense of over $3,420 for those food items. Food is our only expense; we have no administrative costs. We are a very small team of nineteen volunteers, making a big impact on the lives of the families we serve. Most of our families are indigenous, elderly, single moms, handicapped, or those struggling to support a handicapped family member. Ro-Her in Boquete is our food supplier. The company delivers the food to the Fundacion Pro Integracion building (across from Chop Sticks restaurant) where we gather every month for a lively morning of sorting and packing. Some of our families (those who receive the services of FPI) retrieve their packages right there, while other food packs are delivered to the homes of our clients by our volunteers. How does Buenos Vecinos meet our monthly expenses? We organize Food Drives, venta de patios, and fundraising events, but most importantly, we depend on financial donations. Our group of 62 Coconut Foundation members are the superstars! These generous people commit to an annual minimum donation of $360 which covers the cost of one family for a year. Of course, there are many more modest donations, all of which add-up, and are most welcome! As we start the New Year, we want to involve our donors more closely with our activities, and plan to introduce a program where those interested can ride along for a food delivery and meet the families. If you would like to participate, please contact me. As we end the year, we send our sincere thanks to everyone who has supported us in our work to feed the most needy of our community’s neighbors. Truly, that is a holiday blessing! Louise Orr, Chairwoman, Buenos Vecinos de Boquete panamaleo@gmail.com In the photos attached you will see from top to bottom : One of our food drives which is an important fundraising source for us, our monthly packing at Fundacion Pro-Integracion and the homes of one of our clients.

Family of the Month- November 2018 Meet the Case Family Catalina and Amado live in a house of wood and tin on a dirt road amid the sugar cane fields. In their early 40’s , they struggle to raise their four school-age children, two boys Jovany 14, Jonny 11 and two girls, Diana 9 and Janeth 5. Recently, this struggle has become even more perilous; in the past few months, Amado has been afflicted with a debilitating stomach disorder which has made it difficult for him to eat and therefore has also made him very weak. He has needed help to even walk, and so he is currently unable to work to support his family. Neighbors alerted a Buenos Vecinos member to this serious situation and Buenos Vecinos responded with an immediate provision of non-perishable food. Janeth grabbed the can of KLIM powdered milk and broke into a smile at this unexpected gift. In addition, Boquete Health and Hospice is providing some medical equipment to assist Amado in his home. If you would like to help families like this and the efforts of Buenos Vecinos de Boquete, your financial support would be most appreciated. DONATE ONLINE: http://www.buenosvecinosdeboquete.com/how-you-can-help We use PayPal for easy and secure transactions. IF YOU PREFER TO DONATE BY CASH, Please contact Louise Orr (panamaleo@gmail.com) for arrangements. When you make that important decision to help feed the less fortunate in our community, you have truly become a “good neighbor”. When you donate $360 a year or $30 a month (about the cost of a daily latte), your name will be added to our “Coconut Foundation” as an acknowledgement of your concern and generosity. Buenos Vecinos de Boquete’s wholesale purchase power enables us to furnish our clients more food than they could purchase on their own in the store with the same amount of money. Thank you!

Family of the Month - Meet Yeisel and her Family Yeisel, eleven years old, lives with her parents and four siblings in a modest house on the coffee farm where her father works. Last year she suffered a serious accident. The damage to her spine affected her mobility and now, even though she can walk, her gait is uneven and she must soon undergo surgery and fittings for a brace. Although her once-a-week physical therapy session is provided at no cost to the family, they are still responsible for the expenses of transportation and medicine. Pictured here are Yeisel, her younger brother Sebastian, her little sister Keisel, and her mother Norissa. Norissa expressed her gratitude for the help and support from FPI (The Handicap Center) and for the monthly bags of food from Buenos Vecinos. How to help? If you would like to help our clients and the efforts of Buenos Vecinos de Boquete, we would appreciate your donation of any size. It is important for you to know that we are a small all-volunteer force with no administrative or overhead costs. Every dollar of your donation goes to the purchase or storage of food for our clients. When you make that important decision to help feed the less fortunate in our community, you have truly become a “good neighbor”. When you donate $360 a year or $30 a month (about the cost of a daily latte), you will become a Coconut Foundation member as an acknowledgment of your concern and generosity. Donate Online: We use PayPal for easy and secure transactions. If you prefer to donate by cash or local check, please contact Louise Orr panamaleo@gmail.com for arrangements. Be sure to check out our website and Facebook page: Face book page: https://www.facebook.com/BuenosVecinosDeBoquete/ Website: http://www.buenosvecinosdeboquete.com/ Thank you!

View this email in your browser Buenos Vecinos de Boquete Newsletter October 2018. Save the Date for Casino Night 2019 Boquete Has Heart is happy to announce that Buenos Vecinos de Boquete and Amigos de Animales de Boquete will once again be joining together to sponsor Casino Night. Scheduled for the evening of Saturday February 9th at the Animales Event Center, this fun event will feature casino-style games and a silent auction. Mark your calendars (including your new 2019 Animales calendar) and plan to join us for this highly-anticipated evening. BVB Bake Sale at the Health Fair On October 14th BVB conducted a bake sale at Boquete Health and Hospice’s second annual Health Fair at the Boquete Fairgrounds. Not even rainy weather could dampen the spirits of health-providers and vendors or the enthusiastic crowds who enjoyed the demonstrations, mini-seminars and free health screenings. Buenos Vecinos volunteers and supporters sold enough baked goods and sandwiches to sponsor a needy family for a whole year. Thanks to Boquete Health and Hospice for their gracious invitation to participate in this important event. Family of the Month - Meet Yeisel and her Family Yeisel, eleven years old, lives with her parents and four siblings in a modest house on the coffee farm where her father works. Last year she suffered a serious accident. The damage to her spine affected her mobility and now, even though she can walk, her gait is uneven and she must soon undergo surgery and fittings for a brace. Although her once-a-week physical therapy session is provided at no cost to the family, they are still responsible for the expenses of transportation and medicine. Pictured here are Yeisel, her younger brother Sebastian, her little sister Keisel, and her mother Norissa. Norissa expressed her gratitude for the help and support from FPI (The Handicap Center) and for the monthly bags of food from Buenos Vecinos. How to help? If you would like to help our clients and the efforts of Buenos Vecinos de Boquete, we would appreciate your donation of any size. It is important for you to know that we are a small all-volunteer force with no administrative or overhead costs. Every dollar of your donation goes to the purchase or storage of food for our clients. When you make that important decision to help feed the less fortunate in our community, you have truly become a “good neighbor”. When you donate $360 a year or $30 a month (about the cost of a daily latte), you will become a Coconut Foundation member as an acknowledgment of your concern and generosity. Donate Online: We use PayPal for easy and secure transactions. If you prefer to donate by cash or local check, please contact Louise Orr panamaleo@gmail.com for arrangements. Be sure to check out our website and Facebook page: Face book page: https://www.facebook.com/BuenosVecinosDeBoquete/ Website: http://www.buenosvecinosdeboquete.com/ Thank you!

View this email in your browser Buenos Vecinos de Boquete Newsletter September 2018. A Big Thank You to the Boquete Community! Our latest Buenos Vecinos Food Drive in front of Romero’s Food Market in Boquete August 18th was a great success, thanks to generous community and even tourists who stopped by to learn more about our food charity and to donate cash and selected non-perishable food items. By the end of the day, BVB had collected enough to support one of our needy families for more than a year. We appreciate your big hearts! We want to also thank those Coconut Foundation Members who recently renewed their annual pledges to support BVB for a minimum of $360 a year. And hats off to N & N Catering (Nairn Cutten and Nancy Halbert) who donate all of the profits from their catering jobs to Buenos Vecinos and two other deserving charities. Their substantial donation means that our clients like the Family of the Month featured below will continue to find BVB groceries at their door throughout the year. BVB could not exist without this kind of support. Thank you! There’s Still Time………. It’s not too late to buy your first raffle tickets, or even additional tickets, to win this beautiful 60” X 60” handmade Indonesian batik quilt or this decorator 21” X 25” brushed metal seashell mirror. Look for the Buenos Vecinos table at the Tuesday Morning Market. The winners will be announced on stage before the Tuesday Talk on September 25th and need not be present to win. Join Us at the Health Fair (and the BVB Bake Sale) Boquete Health and Hospice is sponsoring the Boquete Health Fair at the Feria across from the BCP on Sunday October 14th 1-4 pm. This important event will feature representatives from the health community, doctors, laboratories, pharmacies and other health supporters. Free blood pressure checks and glucose testing will also be available. Buenos Vecinos will be there selling delicious homemade baked goods. All proceeds from these sales support BVB’s monthly food distribution to some of the area’s neediest individuals and families Family of the Month - Meet Benilda´s Family A large tree hides this bamboo house from the road and the outside play area is worn down to the dirt by many feet. The family who lives here, Benilda and her eight children still miss the father who abandoned them more than a year ago. Benilda struggles to find work, but earns only $50 a month cleaning houses and ironing clothes; $32 of those dollars are already designated for monthly rent and water. Her oldest child, 18 year-old Alexander, is now in trade school learning how to be an electrician. He wants to help his family, and he is optimistic that he’ll be successful. His sixteen year-old sister, Yamileth, will finish high school next year. She wants to learn accounting so that she can help support the family, as well. Her fourteen year-old sister, Yaneth, has confessed with a smile, her own vision of someday owning a beautiful dress. The other children, Reinaldo, 12, Juan, 10, Jeronimo, 9 and Maria, 7, also attend school. Six year-old Jhahicha is very excited to start school next year when she will proudly wear a uniform like her brothers and sisters. Until then she spends her days at home with her mother. When Mom works, a sibling stays home with Jhahicha. The family rushed inside the house to find their best clothes before we took the accompanying photo. Benilda said that the food Buenos Vecinos donates to their family “is a great blessing and she is very grateful.” How to help? If you would like to help our clients and the efforts of Buenos Vecinos de Boquete, we would appreciate your donation of any size. It is important for you to know that we are a small all-volunteer force with no administrative or overhead costs. Every dollar of your donation goes to the purchase or storage of food for our clients. When you make that important decision to help feed the less fortunate in our community, you have truly become a “good neighbor”. When you donate $360 a year or $30 a month (about the cost of a daily latte), you will become a Coconut Foundation member as an acknowledgment of your concern and generosity. Donate Online: We use PayPal for easy and secure transactions. If you prefer to donate by cash or local check, please contact Louise Orr panamaleo@gmail.com for arrangements. Be sure to check out our website and Facebook page: Face book page: https://www.facebook.com/BuenosVecinosDeBoquete/ Website: http://www.buenosvecinosdeboquete.com/ Thank you! This email was sent to trishchristofferson@gmail.com why did I get this? unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences Buenos Vecinos de Boquete · Boquete, Chiriqui · Panama City · Panama

Stop by Romero in Boquete between 9 AM and 1:30 PM on Saturday, August 18, to support Buenos Vecinos de Boquete during our upcoming Food Drive. Our locally-based effort assists needy community families with monthly, non-perishable food supplies. We will have samples of what you can buy at Romero to aid our work, and of course, financial assistance is always appreciated. Shop for food that you (and we) need, and meet members of our team! See below a photo of the food our clients receive each month:

Family of the Month- August 2018 Meet Osiris and Noel Families care for one another and, in this case, a strong woman has stepped forward to care for two generations of family members. Elidia takes care of her daughter and her two grandchildren, Osiris, a 13 year-old girl, and Noel, an 8 year-old boy. All three suffer from developmental delays. Elidia also raised her husband’s youngest children from his previous marriage after his wife passed away, and now Elidia helps care for two of their children. Elidia’s husband is a trusted worker on the finca where the owner provides this family of nine a two room house with running water. The finca is an ideal setting for these four youngsters to explore and to play together. Osriris and Noel receive their formal education with the assistance of a teacher for the handicapped but, because their developmental delays are so severe, there is little advancement. Elidia also makes sure they have social activities and educational stimulation every Saturday at Fundacion Pro Integracion (FPI) also known as the Handicap Center. Buenos Vecinos works closely with FPI to make sure Elidia and her family get their monthly allotment of non-perishable food, and she expresses her gratitude for the help BVB provides. If you would like to help families like this and the efforts of Buenos Vecinos de Boquete, your financial support would be most appreciated. DONATE ONLINE: http://www.buenosvecinosdeboquete.com/how-you-can-help We use PayPal for easy and secure transactions. IF YOU PREFER TO DONATE BY CASH, Please contact Louise Orr (panamaleo@gmail.com) for arrangements. When you make that important decision to help feed the less fortunate in our community, you have truly become a “good neighbor”. When you donate $360 a year or $30 a month (about the cost of a daily latte), your name will be added to our “Coconut Foundation” as an acknowledgement of your concern and generosity. Buenos Vecinos de Boquete’s wholesale purchase power enables us to furnish our clients more food than they could purchase on their own in the store with the same amount of money. Thank you!

Buenos Vecinos Newsletter August 2018 What is a Buenos Vecinos de Boquete Food Drive and how can you help? BVB conducts a Food Drive at Romero's twice a year with the store’s generous cooperation. We staff an outside table and display the foods that we provide our clients, and we greet the public with ready smiles and bi-lingual fliers. Our presence at Romero’s is important in reminding the entire community of the very real needs of our clients. Local Panamanians shop in the store and return with the same basic food items they buy for their own families to give Buenos Vecinos as a donation. The expats and visitors generally give us cash; they understand that financial assistance goes a long way, because BVB purchases food wholesale, and our administrative costs are minimal. How can you help? Come by Romero’s on Saturday August 18th 9am-3 pm. Look for our volunteers in blue. Or if you want to make a donation online by PayPal, visit out new website www.buenosvecinosdeboquete.com. Donations can also be made locally by contacting Louise Orr at panamaleo@gmail.com. Win a Beautiful Prize at the TMM Look for the BVB Table at the Boquete Tuesday Morning Market to buy raffle tickets for beautiful home décor pieces. The proceeds will provide non-perishable food for some of the area’s neediest families. Sylvette Day, a long-time and energetic member of our organization, is also a skilled quilter who has designed and created some of the area’s most treasured quilt-art pieces. The raffle item she has created for Buenos Vecinos is a 60”x60” quilt fashioned from 100% cotton Indonesian batiks. This rich, exotic quilt would look great as a wall-hanging, a decorative bed cover, a TV-watching throw or simply draped over an armchair. Germaine Sturtz, a long-time and generous member of BVB is also a very talented designer. She has crafted another of her stunning shell-encrusted mirrors for this raffle. The brushed-metal frame features sea shells in one corner. The finished piece measures 21” X 25,” and weighs about five pounds. A focal point for any room, this beautiful mirror is going to attract a lot of attention in your home. The prizes will be announced at the September 25th TMM and the winners need not be present to win. Family of the Month August 2018 Meet Osiris and Noel Families care for one another and, in this case, a strong woman has stepped forward to care for two generations of family members. Elidia takes care of her daughter and her two grandchildren, Osiris, a 13 year-old girl, and Noel, an 8 year-old boy. All three suffer from developmental delays. Elidia also raised her husband’s youngest children from his previous marriage after his wife passed away, and now Elidia helps care for two of their children. Elidia’s husband is a trusted worker on the finca where the owner provides this family of nine a two room house with running water. The finca is an ideal setting for these four youngsters to explore and to play together. Osriris and Noel receive their formal education with the assistance of a teacher for the handicapped but, because their developmental delays are so severe, there is little advancement. Elidia also makes sure they have social activities and educational stimulation every Saturday at Fundacion Pro Integracion (FPI) also known as the Handicap Center. Buenos Vecinos works closely with FPI to make sure Elidia and her family get their monthly allotment of non-perishable food, and she expresses her gratitude for the help BVB provides. How to help? If you would like to help our clients and the efforts of Buenos Vecinos de Boquete, we would appreciate your donation of any size. It is important for you to know that we are a small all-volunteer force with no administrative or overhead costs. Every dollar of your donation goes to the purchase or storage of food for our clients. When you make that important decision to help feed the less fortunate in our community, you have truly become a “good neighbor”. When you donate $360 a year or $30 a month (about the cost of a daily latte), you will become a Coconut Foundation member as an acknowledgment of your concern and generosity. Donate Online: We use PayPal for easy and secure transactions. If you prefer to donate by cash or local check, please contact Louise Orrpanamaleo@gmail.com for arrangements. Be sure to check out our website and Facebook page: Face book page: https://www.facebook.com/BuenosVecinosDeBoquete/ Website: http://www.buenosvecinosdeboquete.com/ Thank you!

View this email in your browser Buenos Vecinos Newsletter June 2018 Boquete Video Festival Supports BVB On June 16th the Boquete Video Festival held another showing of locally-made videos in their annual competition. It was a fun, creative, and well-attended evening of entertainment in the Clubhouse at the BCP. Buenos Vecinos thanks the Festival organizers for, once again, supporting our charity with the proceeds from the entrant’s fees, and the sale of Festival t-shirts. Creative BVB Members Provide Some Unique Raffle Items Look for the BVB Table at the Boquete Tuesday Morning Market beginning July 3rd to buy raffle tickets for beautiful home décor pieces. The proceeds of your raffle ticket purchases will provide non-perishable food for some of the area’s neediest families. Sylvette Day, a long-time and energetic member of our organization, is also a skilled quilter who has designed and created some of the area’s most treasured quilt-art pieces. The raffle item she has created for Buenos Vecinos is a 60”x60” quilt fashioned from 100% cotton Indonesian batiks. This rich, exotic quilt would look great as a wall-hanging, a decorative bed cover, a TV-watching throw or simply draped over an armchair. Germaine Sturtz, is also a long-time member of BVB. Known as the “Queen of the Garage Sales” for her organization prowess planning and executing our Venta de Patio Sales, she is also a very talented designer. Her “art plates” and “shell mirrors” have been much-coveted treasures in our previous raffles. She has crafted another of her stunning shell-encrusted mirrors for this raffle. The brushed metal frame features sea shells in one corner. The finished piece measures 21” X 25,” and weighs around five pounds. A focal point for any room, this beautiful mirror is going to attract a lot of attention (and raffle ticket buyers!) Family of the Month Meet Ana Elizabet When the families of Fundacion Pro Integracion gather on Saturdays to provide social interaction and support for their handicapped member and for one another, Benita makes sure that her oldest child is there to join in. Ana Elizabet was born 19 years ago with cerebral palsey. Although she is wheelchair-bound and cannot speak, Ana understands what people tell her and responds with a smile and wonderfully expressive eyes. She is a portrait in joy. Ana and her four younger brothers and parents live in a one room house for which they pay rent and electricity. The other biggest expense, besides the anti-seizure medicine Ana must have twice each day, is food to feed the family. Benita explains that the food Buenos Vecinos de Boquete (BVB) provides each month helps them meet those needs and they truly appreciate it. How to help? If you would like to help our clients and the efforts of Buenos Vecinos de Boquete, we would appreciate your donation of any size. It is important for you to know that we are a small all-volunteer force with no administrative or overhead costs. Every dollar of your donation goes to the purchase or storage of food for our clients. When you make that important decision to help feed the less fortunate in our community, you have truly become a “good neighbor”. When you donate $360 a year or $30 a month (about the cost of a daily latte), you will become a Coconut Foundation member as an acknowledgment of your concern and generosity. Donate Online: We use PayPal for easy and secure transactions. If you prefer to donate by cash or local check, please contact Louise Orrpanamaleo@gmail.com for arrangements. Be sure to check out our website and Facebook page: Face book page: https://www.facebook.com/BuenosVecinosDeBoquete/ Website: http://www.buenosvecinosdeboquete.com/ Thank you!

Family of the Month – June 2018 Meet Ana Elizabet When the families of Fundacion Pro Integracion gather on Saturdays to provide social interaction and support for their handicapped member and for one another, Benita makes sure that her oldest child is there to join in. Ana Elizabet was born 19 years ago with cerebral palsey. Although she is wheelchair-bound and cannot speak, Ana understands what people tell her and responds with a smile and wonderfully expressive eyes. She is a portrait in joy. Ana and her four younger brothers and parents live in a one room house for which they pay rent and electricity. The other biggest expense, besides the anti-seizure medicine Ana must have twice each day, is food to feed the family. Benita explains that the food Buenos Vecinos de Boquete (BVB) provides each month helps them meet those needs and they truly appreciate it. If you would like to help families like this and the efforts of Buenos Vecinos de Boquete, your financial support would be most appreciated. DONATE ONLINE: http://www.buenosvecinosdeboquete.com/how-you-can-help We use PayPal for easy and secure transactions. IF YOU PREFER TO DONATE BY CASH, Please contact Louise Orr (panamaleo@gmail.com) for arrangements. When you make that important decision to help feed the less fortunate in our community, you have truly become a “good neighbor”. When you donate $360 a year or $30 a month (about the cost of a daily latte), your name will be added to our “Coconut Foundation” as an acknowledgement of your concern and generosity. Buenos Vecinos de Boquete’s wholesale purchase power enables us to furnish our clients more food than they could purchase on their own in the store with the same amount of money. Thank you!

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Asking price- $15 Price for new Ducky Pal Bath Tub in Arrocha is $64 If interested call Germaine 6789-9410 Proceeds go to Buenos Vecinos de Boquete

This is going to be a huge patio sale. Don't miss it!!

View this email in your browser Buenos Vecinos Newsletter April 2018 Look at Our New “Face to the World” You can now view our brand new website at www.buenosvecinosdeboquete.com. Gijs Hoogerkamp and Ivan Gonzalez of Chiriqui Media Factory donated the design and launch of our new site and we are very grateful for their skill and expertise. Besides the new look, we are pleased to announce the addition of a new feature that allows our donors to select a recurring monthly payment Pay Pal donation. Please remember that an annual $30 monthly donation insures one of our families the supplemental food they need for a year. Thank you Germaine and Richard Sturtz Our tireless volunteers organized and conducted a multi-donor rummage sale from the home of Germaine and Richard Sturtz in Las Brisas this last month. Proceeds from their and other BVB volunteers’ hard work created enough support to sponsor three families this next year! Job well-done! Greet the BVB Volunteers this Saturday On Saturday April 14th, come say “Hi” to our “ladies in blue” who will be collecting non-perishable food and cash donations in front of the Boquete Romero’s Super Market from 9 am to 1 pm. These donations will help supplement our clients’ monthly food basket. Our clients represent the elderly, and single moms who lack family support, as well as handicapped individuals and their families. A Multi-Charity Venta de Patio in Potrerillos April 21st Don't miss the 4 charity Venta de Patio sale taking place in the basketball court in Potrerillos Arriba. We will have for sale clothes, kitchenware, household item, baked goods and many more items. The sale will take place Saturday, April 21 from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm. This exciting event is sponsored by Buenos Vecinos de Boquete, Fundacion Pro-Integracion, Boquete Rotary Club and Boquete Knitters and Quilters. Coming from Boquete there is a Terpel station before you reach Dolega. Turn right at the station. You will see a sign for Potrerillos. Go straight toward Baru mountain on the road. There will be a fork in the road where you will see a small restaurant and a gas station. Stay to the right. Keep going straight and you will see a basketball court on your left right before you reach the town. We hope to see you there!! Family of the Month Up in the mountainous rural area, where sugar cane fields and vegetable gardens grow, live the hardy people who live off their machete and harvesting skills. Edilberto, twelve, and Jon, almost two, belong to a family like this. They, their four brothers and parents live in a zinc and bamboo house poised near the ridge of a canyon. Edilberto looks up to his two older brothers, Adrian, fifteen, and Jean-Carlos, thirteen, because they can help their dad harvest sugar cane, tomatoes and chayote when they are not in school. Edilberto cannot perform these chores because he has juvenile arthritis which limits his mobility and requires frequent visits to the local clinic for medicine to ease his pain. So Edilberto is left at home to care for his three younger brothers, Joel, five, Abigal, three, and Jon, whenever their mom is needed to help harvest, or to walk down into the village for groceries. Her outdoor wood cook-stove is constantly going to provide meals for this hungry family. Mom, Elena, tells us that she is proud of her boys. They are healthy and happy, and they are getting better school grades each year. If you would like to help Ediberto and Jon and their family, or families like this, please consider a donation to Buenos Vecinos de Boquete today. How to help? If you would like to help our clients and the efforts of Buenos Vecinos de Boquete, we would appreciate your donation of any size. It is important for you to know that we are a small all-volunteer force with no administrative or overhead costs. Every dollar of your donation goes to the purchase or storage of food for our clients. Buenos Vecinos de Boquete's wholesale purchase power enables us to furnish our clients more food than they could purchase on their own in the store with the same amount of money. When you make that important decision to help feed the less fortunate in our community, you have truly become a “good neighbor”. When you donate $360 a year or $30 a month (about the cost of a daily latte), you will become a Coconut Foundation member as an acknowledgment of your concern and generosity. Donate Online: We use PayPal for easy and secure transactions. If you prefer to donate by cash or local check, please contact Louise Orrpanamaleo@gmail.com for arrangements. Thank you!

Spring Cleaning Time! Buenos Vecinos de Boquete, a local food charity, is looking for your donations of items you no longer want. We are having a huge patio sale on April 21, 9:30 am to 12:00 pm in the Potrerilos Arriba basketball court. Fundacion Pro-Intergracion, Boquete Rotary Club and Boquete Knitters and Quilters are also participating in this patio sale. To donate items to Buenos Vecinos de Boquete in the Boquete area you can contact Molly either by a WhatsApp message at 6742-4872 or email her at mollyctraynor@gmail.com. For donations in the Potrerillos area call or send a WhatsApp message to Carmen: 6670-4940 or email her at carmenbotero@yahoo.com

Save the Date!! Don't miss the 4 charity Venta de Patio sale taking place in the basketball court in Potrerillos Arriba. We will have for sale clothes, kitchenware, household item, baked goods and many more items. The sale will take place Saturday, April 21 from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm. This exciting event is sponsored by Buenos Vecinos de Boquete, Fundacion Pro-Integracion (Handicap Foundation), Boquete Rotary Club and Boquete Knitters and Quilters. Coming from Boquete there is a Terpel station before you reach Dolega. Turn right at the station. You will see a sign for Potrerillos. Go straight toward Baru mountain on the road. There will be a fork in the road where you will see a small restaurant and a gas station. Stay to the right. Keep going straight and you will see a basketball court on your left right before you reach the town. We hope to see you there!!

Stop by Romero in Boquete between 9 AM and 1 PM on Saturday, April 14, to support Buenos Vecinos de Boquete during our upcoming Food Drive. Our locally-based effort assists needy community families with monthly, non-perishable food supplies. We will have samples of what you can buy at Romero to aid our work, and of course, financial assistance is always appreciated. Shop for food that you (and we) need, and meet members of our team! See below a photo of the food our clients receive each month:

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Beautiful mosaic decorator bowl is for sale. The price is $25. Proceeds go to Buenos Vecinos de Boquete If interested call Germaine: 6789-9410 Para español llamar a Carmen 6670-494

Garage Sale Multi donor venta de patio to benefit Buenos Vecinos de Boquete. WHEN: Saturday, March 24th Starting at 9:00 a.m. WHERE: Las Brisas Boquetenas, Alto Boquete After you enter the subdivision follow the signs