community

This, briefly, is a tale about how one worthy institution has been used to promote another, the main point of which is to inform the readers of both groups' existence and provide ways to contact them.

It began with the posting of the following message about Alcoholics Anonymous through the Viviendo en Panama email discussion list:


In case anybody should find it useful (even when in denial)

AA History in Panama
http://silkworth.net/image_map/CentralAmerica.html


AA Oficina de Servicios Generales
Avenida Peru
Edificio Las Camelias
Oficina 502 - Piso 5
Panama
http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/default/intgso/panagso.html


Cruz Blanca Panameña, Clinica Margarita an outpatient
free clinic in Panama http://www.crublap.org/


Intergroup Offices for A.A.
Aguadulce 507-976660
Chitre 507-961225
David 507-742316
Panama City 507-648962


Alcohólicos Anónimos
http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/default/sp_contact.cfm?contype=gso

Alcohólicos Anónimos de Panamá
http://mensual.prensa.com/mensual/contenido/2000/12/22/hoy/trasfondo.htm


ALCOHÓLICOS ANÓNIMOS: 263-9906 (Kevin) - Meetings Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays 8:00 p.m., Bldg. 758 A, Barneby Street, Balboa, next to elementary school.
http://www.focuspublicationsint.com/focuspanama/es/gen-info-es.htm

Sitios en español que brindan ayuda a adictos y familiares
http://adorador.com/directorio/ayuda_para_adictos.htm


And what of the medium?

Melodye Taylor, who lives in Volcan, started the Viviendo en Panama list, which despite its name is an English-speaking forum, to answer questions about living in Panama for people who are new down here or who are considering a move to our little corner of paradise. The group is some 700 members strong. You sign up by going to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/viviendo_en_panama/.

The Viviendo en Panama group and its online archives constitute an invaluable resource for today's and tomorrow's English-speaking community on the isthmus. This is not a Canal Zone nostalgia list, nor is it amenable to "sure thing get rich quick" appeals to "qualified investors." Despite occasional flame-outs and threads that stray far from the point (both of which phenomena Melodye strongly discourages), it has avoided being trashed by zealots and trolls.




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