• Program Delivery

• Fundraising Capacity

• Revenue

• Staffing

• Administrative Capacity

• Balance Sheet

The primary source of revenue for our organization is international volunteers and service groups. For over one year, no volunteers were able to come to Panama to help with our programs and thus we saw a reduction in over 50% of our revenue. In March 2021, we reopened slowly for volunteers however we have only seen a fraction of the number of volunteers that we normally host. We also normally host in-person event fundraisers in Panama and the U.S. and have not been able to do so as a result of the pandemic.

As our programs are primarily focused on children, all of our educational programs were closed for over a year as a result of COVID-19. In March 2021, we opened 3 of our 5 programs centers and hope to open the other 2 later in 2021. Children need our programs and services now more than ever as the Panamanian public schools remain closed for a second full year and students continue to fall further behind their peers in more affluent areas where there is access to online learning and schooling.

We were able to continue to support our local communities by reallocating some resources to the purchase and distribution of food, scholarships for students attending virtual classes, and partial salaries for our local teachers and staff to ensure they could support their families while our programs were closed. We also developed stronger partnerships with other local nonprofits including Floating Doctors and Rotary Club which helped ensure that we did not duplicate services and that as many community members' needs as possible were met. These partnerships also helped us to do some joint fundraising and increase the supplies available across the archipelago.

The strong partnerships we've developed with other nonprofits will continue in the future! We are stronger and more effective by working together to meet all of our communities' needs from education to medical care to access to electricity, clean water & other basic necessities.