Partner Agencies - Panama

Ministerio de Salud de Panamá

This government agency is responsible for providing health services in Panama. Although this agency conducts many different health-related programs, AMIGOS works directly with the department of health promotion with a focus on youth development. The Ministerio de Salud de Panamá helps AMIGOS select and prepare host communities, locate host families, and provides medical care for Volunteers when needed.

For more info about this agency, see the website.

Panamá Verde

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. AMIGOS Volunteers will help to initiate community youth groups that can then be integrated into Panamá Verde’s countrywide network. Panamá Verde supports AMIGOS Volunteers with training and contributes to the sustainability of AMIGOS projects by continuing to work with the newly-formed youth groups after Volunteers depart.

For more info about this agency, see the website.
AMIGOS Voices

“I feel privileged and honored to be a part of this great organization. AMIGOS has the ‘right stuff’. It’s a phenomenal organization that year after year just gets better. I have seen the marvelous change that the organization made in my son and I want other kids to have that experience.”

–Susan Green Cooksey, AMIGOS Board Member and Parent