Pan American Health Service Inc

Education Program - At risk youth from the surrounding rural population, are served with accessible hands-on vocational educational opportunities where approximately 145 students participated in learning auto-mechanics, wood-working, cosmetology, motorcycle mechanics, as well as accelerated secondary and basic education for older youth. Of these 60 graduated, many were able to become inserted into the labor force following graduation providing income sources for the family of orgin. Additionally, education and long-term boarding, nurturing, and complete care is provided for 4 abandoned or orphaned children.

Environmental Care - Protecting the cloud forest on the northside slope of Santa Barbara Mountain and the, and the fauna of the Lake Yojoa watershed around the Pena Blanca area, as well as the reef and rain forest of the Punta Sal peninsula in the Tela Bay of the Department of Atlantida, held as a conservation project to preserve indigenous traditions and care of the natural environment.

Community Development - As a sustainability initiative land assets have been allocated for the neighboring community's strategic growth informed by a well-studied masterplan. Approximately 500 students benefit from initial land donations. An estimated 8,000 people are indirect beneficiaries of the organization's program services.

Agroforestry - Approximately 60 acres of fertile soil are dedicated to agriculture for the purposes of contributing solutions to food security, most of this allotment is taken up by an innovative agroforestry crop of breadfruit with the intent to train and educate for duplication of this crop nationally.

Community Resource Coordination - Networking and the connecting of material and human resources to encourage sustainable development in the communities of the area of influence with the objective of motivating the population, especially young people to seek out opoportunities to excel in their native environment.