Bocas Recycle Center is the island's grass-roots, community-led recycling center. The project is made possible by local NGO Unidos Por Bocas, with collaboration from the business community and generous Bocas residents who care deeply about waste management in Bocas del Toro. The Center currently accepts glass, five types of plastic, aluminium cans,...

Give and Surf is a small nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering the local communities of Bocas del Toro through education and community development. Since 2011, Give and Surf has provided free educational programs and services, currently serving over 1,000 local youth each month. Its programs include after-school activities, summer camps, E...

The Darklands Foundation, in collaboration with local government and non-governmental institutions, sponsors seminars and workshops for indigenous peoples, focusing on physical and mental health as well as economic development, with a particular emphasis on the empowerment of women. The Foundation provides special assistance to cacao producers, sup...

Overfished, effluents dumped into the water, climate change, reef collapse, resource exploitation, an undernourished and economically disempowered villages, inconsistent infrastructure development, and disparate government control & oversight; the Bocas Archipelago in Panama has a series of interconnected and serious problems that are contribut...

Floating Doctors is a medical relief team dedicated to serving the Ngäbe communities in the archipelago. The group of medical volunteers deploy all 52 weeks of the year to low income areas and the villages that are geographically far removed from access to medical care. They rotate communities and reach each of 24 communities once every three month...

Papá Gato Animal Welfare is an organization providing care for all the animals of Bocas del Toro. They do this primarily through spay and neuter clinics for street animals and low income family pets in order to reduce the amount of unwanted animals in the area. They don’t stop there – always providing emergency rescue care to any of the many Bocas ...