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.

Toy Drive

This year’s toy drive was extremely successful, as we provided toys for 294 children, from tots to teens. We partnered with another charitable organization, the Association Caridad de la Comunidad de Boquete (ACCB), which gathered toys for the indigenous families living at the comarca (reservation).

Bins for depositing toys were located at several local businesses which generously offered their space. These businesses included Red’n’Blue, Big Daddy’s Restaurant, and Mailboxes, Etc. In addition, BVB had a collection box at the Thursday Market. A volunteer coordinated gathering toys and donations at Casa Vieja, where many gather regularly on Fridays.

Big Daddy’s Restaurant also hosted a fundraising dinner to collect funds and toys. This successful event was made possible by the efforts of the owner, his exceptional staff, and the members of Inclusión Boquete, who together provided a delightful and successful evening.