An Amazing Weekend

 One of the many beautiful places we were able to explore in Boquete! When we work hard all week, we reward ourselves with this!

Salt Creek – Students Without Borders Academy

Salt Creek – Students Without Borders Academy, a set on Flickr. Here is the photographic journey of a past GHA Volunteer Expedition to the Indigenous Community of Salt Creek, Isla Bastimentos, Bocas del Toro, Panama.

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 [...]

Children’s Medical Clinic, In Memory of E. Lee Robinson

The Casa Hogar Selma & Herbert Trisker Children’s Home of Boquete, Panama I first met Randy Robinson on a dock in Maui.  He had hired the boat I was crewing for a whale watching tour, he was wearing a pink shirt, a straw hat, and had @ 10 of his staff members with him.  This [...]

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 [...]

Featured Donors – Sam, Karen, & Megan

Samantha Kolb, Karen Pontious, and Megan VanderZwaag from Students Without Borders Academy arrived in Panama with over an incredible $2,500 in fundraising!!! We are very gracious and humbled by their time and energy spent raising money for a community they had never met. “Sam, Karen and I organized a couple lunches at school and sold it [...]

Featured Volunteer – Tyler Young

. This month we would like to give special recognition to Tyler Young for his passion, efforts, and dedication. Tyler was part of the Students Without Borders Academy from Canada that traveled to Panama to install 3 water catchment systems in the indigenous region at Salt Creek on Bastimentos Island in Bocas del Toro, work [...]

Solidarity, Collaboration, & Teamwork

Solidarity: n. A union of interests, purposes, or sympathies among members of a group; fellowship of responsibilities and interests.  (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_in_solidarity_mean) I met Sebastián Zulueta about a year ago, the Executive Director for America Solidaria, an organization based out of Santiago, Chile.  It was he who truly helped me understand the meaning of the word. GHA [...]

“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 [...]