AMIGOS partners with the Ministerio de Salud (MINSA), the Autoridad Nacional de Ambiente (ANAM), and Panamá Verde in the region of Coclé. Through this collaboration MINSA, ANAM, and Panama Verde directly involve AMIGOS Volunteers and Project Staff in their ongoing community health and environmental efforts. Specifically, AMIGOS Volunteers work to complement MINSA and ANAM’s activities by fostering local youth participation in educational activities to raise awareness about community health and the environment. Panamá Verde works with AMIGOS to carry out an annual environmental festival and helps with environmental activities in host communities.
Our work in Coclé
AMIGOS Project Staff and Volunteers work to with local youth and community members to carry out the following activities:
I. Community health and environmental projects, such as community and family gardens and reforestation initiatives.
II. Extracurricular activities and a youth fair focused on health and the environment.
III. Community-Based Initiatives (CBIs): Volunteers collaborate with their host community in the implementation of a community-specific project (e.g. building a community library, repainting a school, or organizing a cultural festival).
About our Partners
Ministerio de Salud
MINSA is the governmental entity responsible for ensuring the health of all Panamanians. Their mission is to promote integrated action with other national and international, in order to achieve sustainable progress in the quality of life of the people of Panama. The MINSA is a rector of health and part of its mission to promote integrated action with other national and international organizations, in order to achieve sustainable progress in quality of life of the Panamanian people.
The vision of ANA M is to build a Panamanian society that is characterized by a healthy environment and a culture of sustainability, contributing to a higher level of human development. They lead, facilitate, monitor and manage environmental management for sustainable development. This is done this in order to preserve, protect, restore, recover and improve the environment and natural resources base by promoting environmental competitive advantages of Panama.
Panamá Verde is a non-governmental organization that works to form youth groups in small communities to plan and execute environmental and health related projects. Panamá Verde’s three-part mission is almost identical to that of AMIGOS—environmental health, service work in impoverished communities and youth leadership. Panamá Verde supports AMIGOS Volunteers with training and contributes to the sustainability of AMIGOS projects by continuing to work with youth groups after Volunteers depart.
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