BID 4 BOQUETE

							                                Fundación BID 4 BOQUETE
                              Beneficiary Organizations
BUENOS VECINOS de BOQUETE (BVB) is a small, all volunteer committee that provides basic
non-perishable food supplies on a monthly basis to over 118 individuals and their families in the greater
Boquete community. The families served are either elderly with no outside support, or are with handicapped
members. BVB’s clients are subject to basic minimum financial criteria, and are visited regularly by a
Panamanian Registered Nurse or a Panamanian Social Worker to determine changing family circumstances.
Funds to purchase food for our clients are provided by the annual Bid 4 Boquete Charity Auction, scheduled
Food Drives at Romero’s, and the helping hands and hearts of our donors.

THE HANDICAP FOUNDATION is the local chapter of the Handicap Foundation of Panama
(Fundación Pro-Integración de Panama). It strives to support handicapped members of our community,
especially those with minimal economic resources. It provides an open, welcoming social environment;
wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, canes, and hearing aids; funds to transport individuals to special education
classes, physical therapy, doctor appointments; medications and treatments not covered by social security or
public health. It also assists those families with handicapped members to become more economically self-
sufficient and to become aware of the laws beneficial to the handicapped community.

CLUB ROTARIO de BOQUETE was founded in 2005 with the mission to help improve conditions in
local schools. Since that time, the club has installed potable water systems, reservoirs, pumps and filters in
nine outlying schools, and has helped build or repair school roofs, kitchens, and toilets. The club has donated
computers, reference materials, and provided hundreds of children with basic school supplies. Other projects
have benefited the Bomberos and Health Department, supported literacy programs, and provided over 3000
volumes to the new Boquete library. In its largest project to date, accomplished through Rotary International
matching grants, two dormitories and a dining facility were built at one of the largest schools in the Ngobe-
Bugle Comarca. Last year, 21 rain catchment water systems were installed in indigenous villages in Bocas del
Toro Province.

CLUB de LEONES de BOQUETE                     is a non-profit institution, incorporated under the laws of the
Republic of Panama, organized in the District of Boquete since 1946. It has been shaped by men, women and
young workers concerned with helping to improve the quality of life of the needy, those with physical disabilities
and those suffering loss of property due to natural disasters and other causes. The Boquete Lions Club has
distinguished itself by encouraging education through scholarships and school awards, contributions to
housing the homeless, and participating in projects impact on the community such as a Little League baseball
and others. We have become an institution for promoting the development of our district and our country.


AMIGOS de ANIMALES was started in 2005 as a direct response to a need in the community for low
cost spaying and neutering of the dogs and cats in Boquete and the surrounding area. Since that time, Amigos
de Animales has been an active part of the community, promoting the general welfare of the animals in
Boquete. As a direct result, when you walk around town now you rarely see roaming, starving dogs and the
impact on the relative health of the animals and humans has been measurable.