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It's vactation time, from school and from the city
Panama's Girl Scout camp
The Asociacion Muchachas Guias de Panama --- that's the Girl Scout Association of Panama in American English or the Girl Guides Association of Panama in British or Canadian --- has a campground on the Zarati River just past Sonadora, a few miles north of Penonome in Cocle province. Since last The Panama News visited them, they have added a new cabin and an uphill lookout to their facilities. It was all put to good use during the last week of January when 125 girls and a group of scout leaders held the annual National Girl Scout Camp.
Scouting in Panama is part of the international movement that Lady Olave Baden-Powell started, and is for the most part led by middle class professionals. They don't sell girl scout cookies here --- although the women at the headquarters in Pereji are always thrilled to receive these delicacies from the states --- and the organization lives a precarious financial existence. One of the ways that they support themselves is by rental income, for example from the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and from The Panama News, both of which have offices in the headquarters building.
Panama's school vacations are from late December to early March, and the national camp sessions are generally held in January or February. Most of the time, however, the campground in the foothills of Cocle are available for other activities, and the Muchachas Guias would gladly rent the premises to scouts from other countries in search of a Latin American experience at a reasonable cost.
This is the time of the year for Lidia Urriola to take a break from her usual routine at the Girl Scout national headquarters...
...and go camping at the scouts' campground in the Cocle foothills north of Penonome
Left to right, Girl Scout leaders Albis Thorp, Soraida Guevara, Iris Ng (standing), Gloria Lawrence and Miriam Almanza
Needlepoint 101
This year the scouts opened a new cabin that the Banco General donated
Cabins are nice, but tents are more fun
Adis Betegon leads the older girls in a game that teaches living skills ranging from good manners to how to avoid AIDS
The Girl Scouts' uphill lookout
The north - northeast view, into the mountains that Victoriano Lorenzo's
Liberal guerrillas held in the 1900-1903 Thousand Day War
Lidia directs a sewing project
The Girl Scout camp isn't a very long drive from some very nice Pacific beaches, but one advantage that
the adjacent Zarati River has over those is that it gives the camp with a swimming hole with some shade
Must count heads before going swimming
Lake Superior this is not, but the water coming down from the mountains of Cocle is cold by any standards these girls know
The older girls set up their own little area, including the sign and the privacy screen
Olga Figueroa and some of the San Miguelito girls
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