Foster Students go to Panama with Global Business Brigades

Over 2010 spring break, roughly 29 University of Washington undergraduate students, most from the Foster School, visited a mountain village in Panama to help the villagers improve their farming business. The team spent most of their spring break on the Machuca Farm located in the Cocle province, roughly three hours from Panama City. The farm is a 25-minute hike from the end of the nearest roadway. The community has about 800 inhabitants, but the farm group that the students are focusing on has 14 members and supports roughly 35 people. The farm grows yucca, plantain, rice, beans, corn and other crops and also raises chickens, goats and fish in a pond.

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[Guaymi34]

Hi¡¡

I like this kind of trips¡¡ I would also like to join grups like this¡ I´m a panamamenían woman, who is learning English and is very engaged with studing the culture trought out the people ...