Deconstructing Poverty Day

The Dump. This is the place where my fellow Glimpsers and I spent our day learning about the poverty here in Panama. We all were smacked with reality when seeing people scavenging through the garbage and faced, head on, the environmental and poverty issues that Panama...

Living Like a Local

Montserrat: This morning I woke up feeling tired yet full of energy. I was so excited to meet a family and really get to know what life is like for them especially since they live in this small town called Paris in the outskirts of Chitré. When I was talking to my...

Free Day

Today was our free day. This means that we can go out with our GGL’s and go places and explore Chitré’s beautiful culture that it has to offer. At the hostel, everybody made a vote to what we wanted to do. By the end, we decided to have one group go to the park that...

Aid and Development

We started our morning early today in order to head out to the IPHE for special needs children. Before we headed out, we designed questions that would help us create a CAP (Community Action Project) in order to resolve the urgent needs of the school. After a tour of...

Global Business Day

Buenas! Today’s focus was global business and working like a local. We had a really early morning to get the feel of being a local and we pushed through the tiredness. We visited Finca Pamel which is a farm. We read information about Finca Pamel on our way there....