What We Do

Provide Nutrition

Each month Buenos Vecinos purchases food from a local wholesale provider. These are staples that are familiar to our families and include rice, beans, cooking oil, pasta, flour, salt, crema, canned fish, canned meat and powdered milk. The food items are then packed in individual bags for each family/individual by BVB volunteers. Approximately 25% of the food bags are donated and delivered to the FPI (Fundación Pro-Integración or Handicap Foundation). The remainder of the food bags are delivered to our families by our amazing volunteers.

Help Us Provide Essentials for Children and Families!

Having consistent access to food each month brings security, helping families tackle other challenges. We truly value all contributions, and with just $50 a month, you can make a life-changing impact.

Additional Services

Emergency Relief

Although our mission has primarily been providing nutritional staples for families and children in need, during emergency situations, Buenos Vecinos volunteers and our sponsors have stepped up as their support makes a significant difference in the lives of many who have been affected.

This year after the floods in Panama, specifically in the greater Boquete area in the Chiriquí province, we asked for donations and you enthusiastically responded. Along with the mayor’s office, BVB was engaged in providing flood relief by gathering donations of cleaning supplies, personal goods, and clothing items as well as non-perishable foods. The need has been so great that many families are still struggling and require assistance.

Thanks to your incredible generosity and dedicated volunteers our emergency relief efforts are still assisting affected families.

Food Start Program

In an effort to empower families and foster self-sufficiency, Buenos Vecinos de Boquete supplies seedlings suitable for cultivation. To facilitate this initiative, our volunteers gather clean, large handled plastic bottles which are given each month to the man who grows the plants from seeds. Volunteers collect the plants from our grower and the seedlings are given with the monthly food bags.

Annual Toy Drive

Every year, Buenos Vecinos hosts a joyful toy drive to bring smiles to children of all ages — from tots to teens! We’re proud to partner with our friends at the Asociación Caridad de la Comunidad de Boquete (ACCB), who collect toys for indigenous families living in the comarca (reservation). Together, we help make the holiday season a little brighter for hundreds of children in our community.

🎁How you can help:
Our toy drive runs from the middle of October through the latter part of November. During this time, community members can drop off new or gently used toys at several local businesses that generously offer their space.

🍽️ Special thanks to Big Daddy’s Restaurant, which has hosted a fundraising dinner to collect both funds and toys — a wonderful example of community spirit in action!

Every donation — big or small — helps bring joy to a child this Christmas. Thank you to our caring community and business partners for making this tradition such a success!

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