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You won't want to miss the huge 5 charity patio sale in Potrerillos Arriba this Saturday!!! It begins at 10 am and will last until 2 pm. A free Zumba class from 11am to 11:40am is also being offered so bring your dancing shoes.
We hope to see you there!!!
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Cookbooks Are Still Available!
Thirty-seven Panamanian and expat recipes are featured in both Spanish and English and bound in a convenient design that lays flat for easy reading. The cost is $10 each and all proceeds will benefit BVB and Fundacion Pro-Integration.
Pick up the new cook book at Tuesday Market or at the Handicap Foundation, Fundacion Pro- Integration. The cookbooks will be available at The Quilt Lady's table at the Tuesday Market. The Handicapped Foundation is located in a blue building on the left hand side of the road going towards David from Boquete across the road from the two story green apartment and office building and next to the new public clinic under construction.
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You have helped me numerous times with my postings. I am so appreciative of your help and support. Thanks so much!!!!
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I meant to write Save the Date for the Multi-Charity Venta de Patio. I checked it after it was too late to change. Another lesson in the importance of proof reading!
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Please join us for the multi-charity venta de patio to be held in the basketball court in Potrerillos Arriba!
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Please stop by Romeros between 9 and 2 on Saturday, January 28 to help support our local food charity, Buenos Vecinos de Boquete. Yes, things will be back to normal in town after the Flower Festival! Our smiling volunteers will be outside to accept your cash, or in-kind donation of food items. BVB is Boquete's small, efficient outreach to the very needy, with monthly non-perishable food delivered to over 100 families and individuals. Your support is vital and much appreciated.Check us out on our website:
or on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com /BuenosVecinosDeBoquete/
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In 2017 resolve to be a BVB supporter!
Buenos Vecinos Unveils Their New PhotoShow.
See what really goes on behind the scenes at Buenos Vecinos de Boquete.
Click here to watch the show.
BVB Clients and Volunteers Say "Thank You" to the Boquete Area Community.
As the year draws to an end, all of us at Buenos Vecinos de Boquete want to take this moment to thank you for your generosity in 2016. Whether you donated financially, attended our fund raiser "Tropical Treats," or contributed to our many other promotional efforts; all of these activities allowed us to continue providing food to our BVB families and individuals. We thank you, and wish you a joyous holiday season and prosperous New Year.Louise OrrGail CodyCo-Chairs, Buenos Vecinos de BoqueteBuenos Vecinos families appreciate the little extra gifts at Christmas, but it's your donations to the BVB food program that puts food on their tables every month of the year.
Coconut Foundation Members Fuel the Buenos Vecinos Engine!Please consider becoming a CFM for as little as a dollar a day, $30 a month or $360 a year. Your commitment to this program means so much to an elderly person living alone without family assistance, to a family supporting a handicapped member, or to a mother who has no one else to help her feed the children. To see how you can help and to view the Coconut Foundation Membership. Go to buenosvecinosdeboquete.com .
Hurry, Only a Few Cook Books Left.Thirty-seven Panamanian and expat recipes are featured in both Spanish and English and bound in a convenient design that lays flat for easy reading. The cost is $10 each and all proceeds will benefit BVB and Fundacion Pro-Integration. Also available are postage prepaid padded envelopes for mailing to US addresses for $2.75 each. Pick up the new cook book at Tuesday Market or at the Handicap Foundation, Fundacion Pro- Integration. The handicapped foundation is located in a blue building on the left hand side of the road going towards David from Boquete.
Copyright © 2016 Buenos Vecinos, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is:
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We invite you to watch a video that we feel captures the spirit of Buenos Vecinos de Boquete. Please click on the link below to watch the video:
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Santa's Helpers will be assisting shoppers at the Buenos Vecinos de Boquete (BVB) table this Sunday, December 18, from 10 am to 1pm at the Dolega Flea Market/Chiriquí Storage. One-of-a kind Jewelry, earrings, pins, necklaces and bracelets now available for $10 each. Table-top Tiki Torches light up your outside dining areas while the citronella fuel repels insects ($10 each). Bilingual Cookbooks featuring 37 favorite Gringa and Panamanian recipes ($10 each with proceeds going to BVB and FPI/Handicap Center). Donate any amount on behalf of a friend or family member and receive a Certificate of Appreciation with their name to present as a gift or in memoriam.
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A Unique Christmas Gift! O Regales para el Dia de Madres (este jueves December 8th)
For the “person who has everything”, for the young person learning compassion, or to memorialize a loved one, here is a unique Christmas gift, a Certificate of Appreciation from Buenos Vecinos de Boquete. The donation you make on behalf of or to memorialize your gift recipient can be any amount. We will personalize it with their name and then present it to you as a certificate suitable for framing, mail it to the US recipient for a small postage/envelope fee, or email the certificate to you or to your recipient. Certificates are available in both either English or Spanish. See us at the Tuesday Morning Market in Boquete or email us at buenosvecinos79@gmail.com
Please click on the link below to see the pdf version of the gift certificates.
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The Great Stocking Stuffer is Here!
A Great Stocking StufferJust in time for the holidays, a new cookbook appears! Thirty-seven Panamanian and expat recipes are featured in both Spanish and English and bound in a convenient design that lays flat for easy reading. The cost is $10 each and all proceeds will benefit Buenos Vecinos de Boquete and Fundacion Pro-Integracion (Handicap Foundation). Also available are postage prepaid padded envelopes for mailing to US addresses for $2.75 each. They are available at Tuesday Morning Market, or contact us at buenosvecinosdeboquete@gmail.com
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Become Santa this season!
'Tis the Season……… to care for those who most need your help.
For many of Buenos Vecinos de Boquete’s clients, this is a season of great challenges. Here are some ways you can make life better for them:- Become a BVB Coconut Foundation Member by donating $30 a month or with an annual gift of $360. This will help supplement a family’s food needs for a whole year.
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Make a Christmas or Hanukah donation on behalf of a family member or friend. We will give you or email you a BVB certificate featuring their name that you can present to them this holiday season.
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Buy one or more of the new BVB/ FPI (Handicap Foundation) bilingual recipe books at $10 each. All profits go to our organizations.
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Donate personal hygiene products for our clients and drop them off at Mailboxes, Etc. in downtown Boquete.
Read the articles that follow in this newsletter to see more details and, on behalf of all of our clients, Thank You!
Family of the MonthRainy season in the Boquete area means more indoor activities and pastimes for many of us, but for Orlando and his family, this is a season of even greater hardship. As a farm worker, making a monthly average of $120, rainy season is a time when work is scarce and so are the wages to support a family of eight. Though they pay no rent for their wood and zinc house and have no electricity, they must make enough to feed and clothe everyone. He and Adelina send four of their older children to school and look to a better future for them. Go to our website www.buenosvecinosdeboquete.com to see how you can help Orlando’s and other BVB families.
The Great Stocking Stuffer is Here!
A Great Stocking StufferJust in time for the holidays, a new cookbook appears! Thirty-seven Panamanian and expat recipes are featured in both Spanish and English and bound in a convenient design that lays flat for easy reading. The cost is $10 each and all proceeds will benefit BVB and FPI. Also available are postage prepaid padded envelopes for mailing to US addresses for $2.75 each. They are available at Tuesday Morning Market, or contact us at buenosvecinosdeboquete@gmail.com
Gifts for the BVB Families
MailBoxes Etc. and Buenos Vecinos de Boquete are sponsoring a Christmas collection of personal hygiene products. The drive will extend from now to December 20th at the MBE location in downtown Boquete. The items will be distributed to the BVB clients with their monthly food deliveries just a few days before Christmas. Please donate bar soap, shampoo, tooth brushes for adults and children, toothpaste and bandaids. Thank you for your generosity!!
A Gift Certificate for Someone You LoveYou can present an official Buenos Vecinos certificate to a family member or friend featuring their name and acknowledging that a donation of any amount you select has been made on their behalf to BVB families. We can email you the certificate or print it for you. (If you want to mail it with a BVB/FPI Cook Book, we can help!) Contact us for details at buenosvecinosdeboquete@gmail.com
A Special Thank You!Our Restaurant Program kick-off at El Viajero was a big success. Thank you to owner, Mattia Bertero, and all the happy diners who enjoyed a free beverage in exchange for their donation of a bag of rice to BVB.
How to donate to Buenos Vecinos.
If you want to make a difference today by putting food on the table of a hungry local family Click HERE to donate now. Every donation makes a difference.Copyright © 2016 Buenos Vecinos, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is:
Panama, yyyy Potrerillos, PA -
Family of the Month
Family of the month - November 2016
Meet Orlando's Family
Meet Orlando and his wife Adelina. They have 7 children age 2 to 16 years. 5 attend school. Orlando does farm work daily that depends on the weather, averaging $120 per month. The family lives in a small wood and zinc house rent free, with no electric. He is thankful for the monthly BVB food delivery to help his family.
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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Mail Boxes, Etc and Buenos Vecinos de Boquete are having a Christmas personal hygiene products collection at the Boquete Mail Boxes, Etc location. The donation drive will be from November 17 to December 20. The items will be distributed to the clients that receive food from Buenos Vecinos de Bqouete in their Christmas deliveries.
We are asking for donations of the following items:
Bar Soap
Shampoo
Adult and child toothbrushes
Toothpaste
Bandaids
Thank you so much for your donations!
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Family of the Month
Family of the month - October 2016
Meet Wilberto and his mother Bertina
Wilberto, 46, has been bed-ridden and living with his mother in Potrerillos Abajo ever since he was shot and partially paralyzed in a robbery attempt at Wilberto’s place of business. On that day he lost his mobility and his livelihood. Friends and family have rallied around him to help him find a hospital bed and to get him to doctor’s and physical therapist’s appointments. Now he needs a wheelchair, which he hopes “to borrow for a short time”. Wilberto says he is determined to walk again, and to work again to help support his mother. Wilberto and his mom are only two of the many clients you can help feed every month. Support the BVB non-perishable food program today.
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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BVB Restaurant Program Kick-Off at El Viajero RistoranteEl Viajero, one of Boquete’s newest restaurants, is the first participant of Buenos Vecinos’ Restaurant Program. The program will encourage local diners to bring specific food items to the participating restaurant during a specific two-week period in order to receive a complimentary item from the restaurant and to augment BVB’s supply of food for their clients
After only a few short months in this location, El Viajero is already garnering glowing reviews for their international menu and delicious food. Mattia Bertero, owner and chef, is your host. Here is your opportunity to enjoy a free beverage from El Viajero while you contribute a food item to BVB’s monthly food distribution!
Choose a free coffee, tea, soda, national beer or glass of house wine when you purchase any entrée (at full price, no discounts) and bring a five-pound bag of rice to the restaurant October 15th through October 31st (only) . They are open daily 8 am to midnight except Tuesdays. El Viajero is located beside the Delta Station across from Global Bank on Avenida Central.
Visit their Facebook page at Boquete El Viajero Ristorante to see food photos and read their reviews.
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What's cooking at Buenos Vecinos?
Buenos Vecinos October Newsletter
Family of the Month October, meet Wilberto.Wilberto, 46, has been bed-ridden and living with his mother in Potrerillos Abajo ever since he was shot and partially paralyzed in a robbery attempt at Wilberto’s place of business. On that day he lost his mobility and his livelihood. Friends and family have rallied around him to help him find a hospital bed and to get him to doctor’s and physical therapist’s appointments. Now he needs a wheelchair , which he hopes “to borrow for a short time”. Wilberto says he is determined to walk again, and to work again to help support his mother. Wilberto and his mom are only two of the many clients you can help feed every month. Support the BVB non-perishable food program today. Click HERE to donate now.
Buenos Vecinos de Boquete (BVB) and Fundacion de Pro-Integracion (FPI) Cookbook
A Great Stocking StufferThirty-seven Panamanian and expat recipes , each featured in English and Spanish, will soon be printed, bound into booklet form, and available in time for Christmas. All proceeds will assist the programs of BVB and FPI. Cost: $5.00 each (plus shipping, if required). Pre-order your copies now at buenosvecinosdeboquete@gmail.com
BVB Restaurant Program Kick-Off at El Viajero RistoranteEl Viajero, one of Boquete’s newest restaurants, is the first participant of Buenos Vecinos’ Restaurant Program. The program will encourage local diners to bring specific food items to the participating restaurant during a specific two-week period in order to receive a complimentary item from the restaurant and to augment BVB’s supply of food for their clients
After only a few short months in this location, El Viajero is already garnering glowing reviews for their international menu and delicious food. Mattia Bertero, owner and chef, is your host. Here is your opportunity to enjoy a free beverage from El Viajero while you contribute a food item to BVB’s monthly food distribution!
Choose a free coffee, tea, soda, national beer or glass of house wine when you purchase any entrée (at full price, no discounts) and bring a five-pound bag of rice to the restaurant October 15th through October 31st (only) . They are open daily 8 am to midnight except Tuesdays. El Viajero is located beside the Delta Station across from Global Bank on Avenida Central.
Visit their Facebook page at Boquete El Viajero Ristorante to see food photos and read their reviews.
How to donate to Buenos Vecinos.
If you want to make a difference today by putting food on the table of a hungry local family Click HERE to donate now. Every donation makes a difference.Copyright © 2016 Buenos Vecinos, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is:
Panama, yyyy Potrerillos, PA -
Buenos Vecinos de Boquete is grateful to the Boquete community for giving us the most successful food drive we have ever participated in. The donors were from every age group and represented all members of the Boquete community. We received generous cash and food donations which help enable us to continue our work as a food charity.
To find out more about Buenos Vecinos de Boquete or to make a donation check out our website or visit our Facebook Page:
http://www.buenosvecinosdeboquete.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BuenosVecinosDeBoquete/
Thank you again for your support!!!!
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What is Buenos Vecinos doing this Saturday?
Buenos Vecinos August Newsletter
In memory of Denis Cody a tireless, devoted friend and volunteer to Buenos Vecinos, the Handicap Foundation and Bid 4 Boquete.
Family-Supporter of the Month..... meet Migdalia of FPI
Migdalia Rios is the secretary at Fundacion de Pro-Integracion (FPI), the Handicapped Foundation, located south of Boquete. She came to FPI with her handicapped daughter several years ago and when her daughter passed away in 2012, Migdalia continued on at FPI. Migdalia is now the on-site supervisor who helps make medical appointments, arrange hospital visits and obtain medicine for the more than sixty members of the FPI community. Most FPI members are poor and require almost constant care. In fact, physical therapy is now provided by volunteers.With Migdalia’s help, Buenos Vecinos, supports the FPI clients and families who meet the BVB criteria for monthly food assistance. She conducts the BVB interview of FPI members and others in the community. In addition, Migdalia helps with the organization of the monthly food pack which is conducted at the Handicap Center.
FPI can always use volunteers and donations; stop by any Saturday 9 am- 1 pm to meet Migdalia and the incredible members of the FPI community.BVB Food Drive at Boquete Romero’s Saturday August 6th 9am-3pm
Our volunteers will be collecting specific food items and cash donations. We will have examples of the non-perishable items we provide our BVB clients each month. It’s easy to pick up something for our BVB families while you’re shopping for yours. We provide these food staples to over 100 truly needy individuals and families in the greater Boquete community. Or, if you prefer to make a cash donation, please know that it goes a long way because we purchase food at wholesale prices. We look forward to seeing you this Saturday!
Coming soon...... a cookbook featuring BVB - FPI members' recipes translated in both English and Spanish.
How to donate to Buenos Vecinos.
If you want to make a difference today by putting food on the table of a hungry local family Click HERE to donate now. Every donation makes a difference.Copyright © 2016 Buenos Vecinos, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is:
Panama, yyyy Potrerillos, PA -
Food Drive
Please stop by Romeros on Saturday, August 6 from 9 to 3 and help Buenos Vecinos de Boquete during our Food Drive. Our volunteers will be collecting food items and cash donations; we will have examples of the food needed. It's easy to shop for your own needs while picking-up something for a family in need.
Buenos Vecinos de Boquete provides non-perishable food staples to over 100 truly needy families and individuals in the greater Boquete community. Since we purchase food at wholesale prices, your cash donations go a long way. Either food or cash, we look forward to seeing you at our Food Drive! -
Family of the month - July 2016
Meet Midgalia of FPI
Here are some of the FPI children picking up BVB food with Migdalia.
Migdalia Rios is the secretary at FPI. She began coming to FPI with her handicapped daughter years ago. Her daughter passed away 4 years ago and Migdalia continues to work with the FPI community, now over 60 members. She helps with making medical appointments, obtaining medicines and arranging hospital visits.
Physical Therapy is now provided by volunteers. Most handicap members are poor and require almost constant care. BVB provides monthly food to them. We use their facility for our monthly meeting and food packing. Migdalia is a great help interviewing FPI members and other families in the community for BVB.
FPI can always use volunteers and donations, stop by on a Saturday 9-1pm and meet some incredible members of our community.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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Buenos Vecinos June Newsletter
Buenos Vecinos de Boquete is Grateful!Every month we request your support to provide nutritious non-perishable food for more than a hundred local handicapped or elderly individuals and their families. Your response is overwhelming! This June newsletter is dedicated to a few of the individuals, organizations and businesses who gave their time, energy and capital resources this year. Visit our website buenosvecinosdeboquete.com to see some of the BVB clients you are supporting. Encourage your friends to visit the website and to subscribe to our newsletter. We hope you and your friends will Follow and Share our Buenos Vecinos Facebook posts and Like our FB page. And, again, thank you for your support!
Family-Supporter of the Month
Hungry children get a hot meal every school day from Amigos de Boquete. Dallys del Carmen Dennis, the organization’s energetic administrator, oversees after-school computer and homework assistance and the daily preparation of hot nutritious meals for the students at thirteen primary schools in the Boquete area. Learn more about their progam at amigosdeboquete.org In addition, twelve A de B families enjoy monthly food support from Buenos Vecinos. Visit our BVB website (see above) to read more about our programs.
A Successful Tropical Treats Event
Thanks to raffle and food contributors and enthusiastic party-goers, BVB’s mid-May’s fund-raising event brought in enough funds to provide almost a whole month of support for all of BVB’s one-hundred and ten families! Tina LaPorte won the grand raffle prize, a lodging and dining package from Hotel Bocas del Mar. Brian Christofferson won the white-water river rafting tour from Boquete Outdoor Adventures, and Bonnie Williams won the bird-watching tour and lunch from Craig Bennett and Karen Hill. The Panama Red Rum door prize-winner was Cynthia Dunne.
BVB Volunteers Lead Fund-Raising Efforts
Germaine Sturtz, one of the many creative and generous BVB volunteers, raised enough money through her jewelry sales, her annual “Mama-Mia” dance party and the raffle of her hand-crafted metal bowl last quarter to feed one BVB family for an entire year. Germaine and her husband Richard champion even more BVB families throughout the year.
Early this year Sylvette Day and Johnnie Fernandez created a magnificent quilt which Sylvette and others raffled off to garner enough proceeds to support four BVB families for a year. Sylvette’s tireless pursuit of sales for all of our raffles has won her the title of “ BVB raffle queen”. She also provides more support to BVB clients every month.
How to Donate
If you want to make a difference today by putting food on the table of a hungry local family. Click HERE to donate now Every donation makes a difference.
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Family of the month - May 2016
Meet Dallys del Carmen Dennis
Please meet Dallys, a valuable part of the work we do at Buenos Vecinos de Boquete. She is the Admistrator of Amigos de Boquete (not to be confused with Amigos de Animales), and has been there for over ten years. Like Buenos Vecinos, Amigos de Boquete is a food program serving the community. At AdB, the focus is on school children in thirteen local primary schools, which are provided a fresh hot meal daily. Because of her unique position in the community, and the overlapping goals of our two charities, Dallys manages the distribution of Buenos Vecinos food to twelve of our families. The majority are handicapped, indigenous, and many are single mothers. Dallys and her assistant, Madelaine are busy ladies!
They work under the guidance of local resident, Philip McGuigan, whose family's foundation not only finances Amigos de Boquete's school food program, but who also regularly brings in containers from the US with vital supplies for many charitable organizations working in Chiriqui, including a rice supplement that benefits food programs like Buenos Vecinos de Boquete.
When she's not visiting all those schools and managing the cooks responsible for the daily hot lunches, she can be found supervising a lively bunch of children with their school homework and computer use. Stop by and say hello to this whirlwind of a woman with the big smile and kind heart; Amigos de Boquete is located in the Alto Dorado shopping mall. Check out their website: www.amigosdeboquete.org
If you would like to assist the work 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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Last evening Buenos Vecinos de Boquete, our local food charity, hosted a benefit to support our community work, and we were thrilled at the turnout! It took many weeks to plan and promote, and all the work resulted in a wonderful evening of "TropicalTreats" for our guests.
Of course, not only do thanks go to those of you who attended and bought chances on our special raffle tickets, but also to the many behind-the-scenes contributors. We would like to sincerely thank the following generous individuals and businesses:
Our raffle donors: Bocas del Mar Hotel-Restaurant in Boca Chica (www.bocasdelmar.com)Jim Omer at Boquete Outdoor Adventures (jim@boqueteoutdooradventures.com)Craig Bennett, expert birding guide, for his donation of a private tripDoor prize: Jim Wasson Panama Red Rum
Our professional and private chefs for their varied and delicious donations:N&N Catering, Sheila Strunk, Juan Lineares, Ali MacArthur, Joanne Hatch, Sandy Parkinson,Karen Pitt, Molly Traynor, Billie Gunn, Brandy Gregory, Sugar and Spice, Casona del Cuzco, El Oasis,Chef Cajun Eric,Chef Chris Young of Colibri, Café La Villa, Mike's Global GrillGraphics: Vickie Heiser and the BVB Marketing TeamSignificant Others: Carol Hurst and the Amigos de Animales Board of Directors for the use of their facilityHoward Hill for the use of his sound equipmentKen Campeau for being indispensableAnd, of course, special thanks to the remarkable group of Buenos Vecinos de Boquete volunteers. We thank you, Boquete.We had a great crowd. Below is Bonnie Williams, the winner of the bird watching tour.
Tina La Porte won the grand prize of two nights at Hotel Boca del Mar.
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Buenos Vecinos de Boquete March Newsletter
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Out of Sight, But Not Out of Mind
The beautiful and lush backdrop of trees, flowers and rolling hills in and around Boquete charm our visitors and expatriate residents. The many local activities, events and amenities provide them with diversions and recreational opportunities. There is, however, more than just this idyllic life in the western highlands of Panama.
At the outskirts of our community and in the hills just above the city are individuals and families who live in grinding poverty. Like Hernan, in his early 70’s who has continuing major health issues and can no longer work. He lives alone with his dogs in a bamboo shack far from town and neighbors. He cooks over an outside wood stove and draws water from a nearby stream. He and many others like him need the kind of help that Buenos Vecinos de Boquete provides. Hernan is one of more than 115 clients Buenos Vecinos de Boquete (BVB) assists each month with supplemental non-perishable food allotments.
BVB volunteers who deliver this food on a monthly basis get to know their people. Besides the fun of chatting and visiting with them, volunteers get to check on their clients’ safety and health to assess what else they may need. You can view the video/slideshow that features a monthly food packing session and a BVB volunteer home visit to a client on the front page of our website at buenosvecinosdeboquete.com
The First Annual Potrerillos Arriba Venta de Patio
On Saturday March 11th Buenos Vecinos invited its fellow non-profit organizations, The Boquete Knitters and Quilters, The Boquete Rotary, and Amigos de Animales to join them at a new venue for a joint patio sale. The setting was the covered basketball court in Potrerillos Arriba. Residents from this rural community and outlying areas were thrilled with the number, quality and affordable prices of the sales items. Their happy faces told us that virtually everyone walked home with a treasure. The organizations were also happy with the impressive turnout and with their individual sales proceeds. For instance, Buenos Vecinos made enough to underwrite the monthly food allotments of two and a half families for a whole year!
Family of the Month
Tiny Jeany is three years old, but she is still no bigger than her two year old brother. This little spark plug smiles and laughs with family and friends and brightens everyone’s day. She lives with her six siblings, her aunt and her Grandma Ana is a one-room cement block structure far up the mountain from Boquete. There is no electricity nor running water in the house. Living almost within a cloud forest, this family is often cold and wet and depends on the outdoor cook stove for warmth. Jeany and her brothers and sisters were first abandoned by their father when she was only two years old; tragically, her mother also abandoned the family a few months later, leaving them all in the keeping of their grandmother. To make room for everyone in the house, Grandma Ana now sleeps in the chicken coop at night. She has told us that she is glad for help in the form of monthly food deliveries from Buenos Vecinos that include the nourishing MannaPack supplemented rice from the Amigos de Boquete Foundation. The family also cherishes the soft warm hats, sweaters and blankets lovingly provided by the Boquete Knitters and Quilters. Buenos Vecinos de Boquete depends on your support to feed and nourish families like Jeany’s; go to our website at www.buenosvecinosdebouquete.com and discover how you can help now!
Mark your Calendars
Mike and Heidi Rehm of Mike’s Global Grill for signing up to become our next participants in the BVB Restaurant Program. Watch for additional information and mark your calendars for May 1st-15th.
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Special Thanks to These Individuals and Organizations
Velkys Munoz and Arturo Gonzalez at MailBoxes Etc. for serving as a drop-off center for personal hygiene products. Our clients appreciated a special holiday bonus in their food bags.
Mamie Brisker and Doris at YiA Yoga Boquete’s Health, Healing and Humanitarian Center for sponsoring a BVB fund-raising event in the park.
Amigos de Boquete Communidad (ABC) for including BVB kids when gathering Christmas gifts for the community’s children.
Romero’s for once more serving as the venue for our semi-annual Food Drive. The donations we received are sponsoring two families’ monthly BVB food allotments for an entire year.
Gene Borque for creating a fun and educational video/slide show of Buenos Vecinos food-packing and delivery efforts which can now be viewed on buenosvecinosdeboquete.com
Nan and Nancy at N & N Catering for their generous on-going donations and continuing support.
Youth With A Mission (YWAM) for donating two truckloads of clothes and household articles for the Potrerillos Venta de Patio.
Phil McGuigan and the Amigos de Boquete Foundation for supplying the nutritious MannaPack rice supplements for our monthly food distribution. Our BVB families are thriving with this miraculous addition to their diets.
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