Our Little Spot In Facebook/Peace Corps History

This was posted a couple weeks ago on the Peace Corps Facebook site. Right before Michelle's article!
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150320492655914.340212.110634980913&type=1

In an indigenous community in the Bocas del Toro region of Panama, Peace Corps Community Development Volunteer Adam Armstrong has been working closely with a local chocolate-making artisan association to organize and execute sustainable chocolate production, expansion of the market for their "Oreba" chocolate products, and create agro-tourism around the chocolate-making process.

Several previous Volunteers in the community have helped lay the groundwork for the association's members to have the necessary environmental, sustainable agricultural, and organizational knowledge and skills. With Adam's support, the group has really taken off.

In the last year alone, the association has increased their profits ten-fold. Association members have completely taken the lead, consistently modeled organizational best practices, and have been able to look to Adam to provide trainings to further develop their leadership and organizational abilities, as well as obtain guidance on their marketing, packaging, customer relations, and tour operations, to assure the managerial sustainability of their business. To top it all off, the products are entirely eco-friendly and organic, even vegan.

Check out the Oreba Chocolate Facebook page for more infohttp://www.facebook.com/Orebachocolate