Board Approves $500 for Chepo, Panama

Posted by Renee Varella

on Aug 04, 2015

Last month, the TSR board approved a $500 donation to Woodland Public Charity for supplies to be sent to the victims of a massive fire that hit Chepo, Panama, on June 2. Although there were no human casualties reported, the blaze consumed 150 wood homes and displaced more than 1,000 people in the indigenous community of Aguas Claras, Bayano, Mandugandi Comarca of Chepo District.

On July 30, Woodland Public Charity filled a large container with donations for Chepo, created this video and thanked donors:

Thank you to all volunteers and organizations that teamed up to respond to the emergency in Aguas Claras, Chepo, Panama. The 40-foot container is on its way to Panama!!! Thank you, thank you!

In Woodland, we are so grateful [for] the response of many organizations and individuals. The first part of the job is done ... now will keep working to coordinate the arrival of the container [in] Panama and the distribution to the people of Aguas Claras.

[A] special thanks to Stop the Hunger Now, the Warehouse Project, Prairie Start Pharmacy, Custom Foods, Shawnee Mission Hospital, Olathe Firefighter Department, Olathe Bible Church, Rotary District 5710 clubs: Konza, Olathe Noon, Leawood, Topeka South, De Soto, Leavenworth, Shawnee Mission, Interact Shawnee Mission Northwest, The Coalition for Independence, Radio Station KMBZ 98.1, Mission Southside, Westside CAN Center, and individual supporters/donors. What a great response!!!

– Jorge D. Coromac, CEO of Woodland Charity

Read more about the Chepo fire HERE. For more information, please email Jorge D. Coromac or visit the Woodland Charity website.