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 FGF loves helping our Host country Panama. You can help too. Panama children charities The country of Panama is our home country, and we love it here! Unfortunately, as much as 27% of the population here live in extreme poverty. This is of course in many cases as particularly serious situation for children, and the majority of these are members of Indian tribes and live far into the jungles and high up into the mountains. Although you do see a lot of poverty in certain areas of Panama City also.  We want to start by giving something back to the country who welcomed us to establish our future operations here. As a first step we have focused in on a couple of specific aid organizations doing great work among children and family members of this group of the Panama population. Please not that no official agreements have been entered into with those organizations yet, although some communication has taken place. We expect to have further discussions with them in the spring of 2011. Nevertheless, let these organizations serve as examples of NGO´s we want to work with in Panama. Here they are:  Casa Esperanza - Rescuing the Children Most at RiskIn 1990, a group of Panamanian women vowed that Panama would never have the gangs of children that live on the street that plague many countries in Latin America…Casa Esperanza has accomplished that and much more. It begins by contacting children selling on the street or working as migrant workers on coffee farms. In a multifaceted approach it gives these at-risk children opportunities to go back to school, get health care, and provides nutritional food and programs to stabilize their family situation. If not for their work the street kids with no education would soon turn to drug dealing or prostitution and the migrant children would repeat the same desperate fate of their parents. You can sponsor a child at Casa Esperanza for $35 a month. We recommend a visit to Casa Esperanza centers in Panama City to personally observe the love and great care that is given children that without Casa Esperanza, would be living on the streets of Panama. Please visit this website for more info: www.casaesperanza.org.pa Pro-Ninos Darien-Courageously Changing the Lives of the Poorest Children in Panama's Most Remote Region Pro-Ninos Darien is doing nothing less than heroic work- their staff travel weekly by boat on dangerous rivers and where-the-roads-end to feed, school and clothe the poorest children in the jungle province of Darien. Until Pro-Ninos Darien .rampant child malnutrition meant that the children went to school without breakfast and therefore fell sleep in class and could not concentrate which led to a high percentage of absenteeism and school desertion. Thanks to a "Godfather and Godmother" program, each child now receives two meals a day at school. You can be a Godfather or Godmother with a monthly donation of just $20.00 for a specific child. As a Godfather or Godmother you'll receive school progress reports, photographs and letters from their godchildren. Your donation can be automatically deducted from your credit card each month. Please visit their website for more information:. www.darien.org.pa Become a participant and Sponsor a Child!
 We will have some exciting news on our future charity work in Panama before the end of 2011.
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