Despite positive economic growth, there are large inequalities in Panama: the gap between rich and poor increases. In 2008, 32...
Foundation El Arca
EL ARCA Foundation is a NGO born in the year 2008 that helps children and adolescents with basic needs of education, which belong to families who are in extreme poverty and live in places of difficult access in rural areas of the province of Colón. We develop different programs for the benefit of these sectors.
“Children are the most important resource in the world and the best hope for the future!” John F. Kennedy
Fundación El Arca
Programas
El Arca Educational Center
EL ARCA EDUCATIONAL CENTER
The construction of the Educational Center EL ARCA is a project that strongly bets towards the future, facilitating…
Back To School Operation
BACK TO SCHOOL OPERATION
We make it easy for children of the rural area of Costa Abajo de Colón, their reintegration into school activities…
Merry Christmas Operation
MERRY CHRISTMAS OPERATION
Each year we bring the joy of Christmas to households less favored, through toys for children and adolescents…
Educational Tours
EDUCATIONAL TOURS
Periodically we moved to places with difficult access in the province of Colón with the support of our volunteers…
Social Networks
News
The construction of the Educational Center EL ARCAis a project that strongly bets towards the future, facilitating the educational tools required to give students the opportunity to have a better future throughout a comprehensive academic preparation, which includes an educational plan appropriate to their lifestyle allowing them to grow personally and professionally, within their environment, and bring their craft activities at a level of business development. This is a sustainable solution that will transform the lives of the inhabitants of these communities.
Blog
Public Education in the rural areas of Panama
Although is true that one of the country commitments for “Education for All” is to end with the gap between...
Why children from the field leave the studies?
At rural villages of our country, a large percentage of boys and girls drop out of school at the stage...