2011 has been a year to remember, & it’s only March!

With the start of the new year, has come the start of an incredible journey. 2011 has been an incredible year for GHA, our volunteers, our partnering organizations, & the communities in which we have been working. Since the beginning of January, GHA has had the pleasure of working with@ 60 new volunteers! To start [...]

Clean water, Muddy trails, & Island tales – “Blame it on the rain…”

Since I moved to Panama full-time over a year & half ago, I’ve had many goals for GHA, many dreams, & many focus’.  It is without a doubt that I recently experienced ALL of these in one collaborative project between GHA, the Rotary Club of Boquete, the Shasta Valley Rotary Club, Contextual Solutions,the Students Without [...]

MountainScapes, quality of life, local festivities, & adventure… oh my!

Here, I am. Happily enveloped by the sweet aroma of fresh soil, I lifted my head towards the endless magnificent mountainscapes; a surprising contentedness had begun to kindle hearth deep from within.  Small beads of my sweat coruscated abruptly, as they began falling towards the earth. Caeser, my teacher and fellow farm-hand, spoke broken English [...]

“They changed our lives, we want to come back & help…”

Students were recently quoted after volunteering with GHA.  The Students without Borders Academy focused their time with GHA working with a smokeless stove project from Contextual Solutions, rain catchment systems for the indigenous community of Salt Creek in the Bocas del Toro Islands, and supporting a medical clinic being constructed for the Casa Hogar Trisker [...]

GHA makes the News!

Check out our lastest adventures in Bocas del Toro http://www.thebocasbreeze.com/current-issue/february-febrero-2011-vol.shtml DONATE NOW! (click here) REGISTER NOW! (click here) For More Information, please contact us at:  info@VolunteerIsland.org

From Mountain Highlands to Caribbean Islands

GHA’s recent growth has allowed for the support of several new programs.  With individuals & groups coming to Panama from across the globe, GHA will maintain base camps in the mountain highlands of Boquete, Panama & the Caribbean Islands of the Bocas del Toro Archipelago.  Regardless of your desired geographic landscape, you’ll find these to [...]

GO somewhere, DO something…

In the words of Mark Twain: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. ~Mark Twain So in my own words, [...]