It would be wonderful if you could volunteer in the project of your choice and we will try to make it happen. Let us know your favorite projects and we will try to asign a task for you in that project. But due to the nature of these projects, workloads fluctuate throughout the year, and at certain times more help could be needed in a certain project and that is why we ask you to keep an open mind when offering your time to work. For donations please visit Unexpected Moments of Magical Foundation's website.
Unexpected Moments of Magic Foundation
Unexpected Moments of Magic Foundation is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering social entrepreneurs around the globe through its innovative individual grant program and educational seminars. Unexpected Moments of Magic Foundation believes to the fullest that volunteerism, philanthropy and education are powerful forces for worldwide change.
Our goal is to give people the opportunity to serve to their highest capacity with a focus on what they desire to gain from their hard work and dedication with Unexpected Moments of Magic Foundation.
The founder of this organization, Kaytee Hoverson, studied at Habla Ya Language Center during the summer of 2006 and came back to Boquete to promote and initiate several volunteering projects. Since then, our students and staff have worked as volunteers in several Unexpected Moments of Magic Foundation projects and we also help to recruit more volunteers.
If you would like to dedicate some of your time helping others while studying Spanish at our language school in Boquete, Panama, please contact Kaytee Hoverson at , and she will be more than happy to assign you to one of the volunteering opportunities in Boquete, Panama. In order to coordinate your volunteering project so that it does not overlap with your Spanish lessons, we would appreciate if you could also copy us to the following email address: .
Mentor Project
The Boquete Mentor Project matches mentees with mentors to provide a positive role model for the mentees, to help the mentees with their homework, have someone to confide in, to talk to and to listen. The mentors meet with their mentees a minimum of once a week. Once a month all the mentors and mentees come together to celebrate accomplishments and to enjoy the company of one another.
Day and Time: every Tuesday from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Special Requirement: only perfectly fluent Spanish speakers
Project Leader: Gordon Brown
email:
Phone numbers: (+507)-6-711-6243
Casa Hogar Trisker Youth Development Sports Project
Hogar Trisker is a center for children based in Boquete, Panama that serves the Chiriquí region to aid orphaned and abused children. The center currently serves around 50 children and the needs are becoming greater on a daily basis. Through the implementation of the Youth Development Sports project the children living within the center receive the opportunity to experience a positive team environment in a time of trauma and crisis. The current sport focus is soccer and is held every Saturday.
Day and Time: every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Project Leaders: Carlos Raúl Cabrera Toledo and Gordon Brown
emails: and
Phone numbers: (+507)-6-480-1757 and (+507)-6-711-6243
The Gem Project Panama
The GEM Project is an international jewelry-making program that promotes self-sufficiency for single mothers through the creation of a myriad of international jewelry designs. The GEM Project is currently seeking beading trainers, mentors, and motivational interviewers. For more information, visit the website below.
Day and Time: various times and locations
Project Leader: Kaytee Hoverson
email:
Phone numbers: (+507)-6-630-3769 or 602-284-5615 (U.S.A.)
Website: www.thegemproject.com
Casa Esperanza Readers 2 Leaders
The ability to read is the key to obtain knowledge that would not otherwise be absorbed into our minds. Self-esteem is our personal self-worth, our personal self-value and our self-confidence to succeed in fulfilling our hopes and desires. Leadership allows us to make a difference in this world and help others to do the same. Positive thinking is what makes all this possible. Join these things together and you have an innovative social intervention program!
The children participate in the program for one hour every week. This program seeks to increase literacy levels, self-esteem & leadership skills. The R2L group is currently seeking advanced level Spanish speaking volunteers to read with the kids on Saturdays and project leaders whom wish to start their own R2L group.
Day and Time: every Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Project Leader: Richelle Brown
email:
Phone numbers: (+507)-6-719-2067
Leaf International Music Program
Music is a powerful tool for children's self-esteem, healing, rhythm, learning skills, positive development, hope, skills, and creating a healthy happier community. At LEAF we also believe that experiencing art, music and unique cultures from around the world transforms us as individuals and as a global community.
Day and Time: every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Project Leaders: Jennifer Maher and Gordon Brown
emails: and
Phone numbers: 828-686-8742 (U.S.A.) and (+507)-6-711-6243
Website: www.theleaf.com
Por Los Niños
Por Los Niños is a project initiated by Bob & Pat Moyle. The goals of the project are to increase the overall wellbeing of the children in the center of Hogar Trisker. The team of volunteers go to the center twice per week to spend quality one-on-one time with the babies, giving them the love and attention they need at such a crucial time in their lives. The team is also assisting in several other projects at the center to better the overall setting and environment.
Day and Time: Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Project Leaders: Pat and Bob Moyle
emails: and
Phone numbers: (+507)-6-673-3476 and (+507)-6-673-3477
Fundación Pro-Integración: Boquete Handicap Foundation
The Handicap Foundation of Boquete, founded in 1989 is one of many chapters of the main office in Panama City. It is a non-profit organization established in 1983 with funds from the 20-30 Teletons.
All chapters such as ours are volunteers (including handicap family members) interested in helping the handicap community (especially the most economically depressed) improve their life style. We are able to supply wheelchairs, crutches, walkers, canes, occasionally hearing aids, and funds for children to attend special education classes, physical therapy, doctor's appointments and medications.
There are no dues and the only requirement for membership is a desire to be of assistance to the handicapped community. This can be offered through professional skills such as teachers, medical personnel, physical therapists, or personal time in reading to children, playing games, doing handcrafts, or anything that would interest the specific needs of each handicapped child or adult.
Our funds are raised through projects such as the sale of prepared food or used clothing, raffles and auctions as well as donations from community members.
With the opening of our new facilities in Alto Boquete which is located on the east side of the Boquete to David road approximately 500 m south of the Guadalupano School. It is a blue building with a red roof and surrounded by a cyclone fence.
Day and Time: every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Project Leaders: Susan Peterson and Irene Heins
emails: and
Phone numbers: 6-677-3443, 720-3202, 6-629-9587 or 720-4880
Website: www.funproi.org
Panamá Building Projects
- Reyes Family Farm
- Community Clean Up Day
- Hogar Trisker Kitchen and Nursery
- Soccer Field and Baseball Field
- Volunteer House
Conctact us for more information about these building projects ().
hablaya@hotmail.co.uk
+507-720-1294
+507-6-480-4506
