My Ticket to Paradise: Expat Snapshots of Isla Taboga, Panama
Book Details
PublisherChangemaker Community
ISBN / ASINB00BDSWHFO
ISBN-13978B00BDSWHF2
MarketplaceCanada 🇨🇦
Description
Your purchase of My Ticket to Paradise: Expat Snapshots of Isla Taboga directly supports the community health clinic on Isla Taboga, an island of about a thousand that overlooks the Pacific side of the Panama Canal. All proceeds from the sales of this book help fund an initiative to buy glucose monitors (plus needles and strips) for the twenty-three or so diabetics living here. Glucose monitors are an integral part of successful diabetes management and will allow the islanders to test their glucose levels when the clinic is not open.
Those of us who contributed stories wanted to lend a hand beyond donating money. We wanted to invest some of our creative resources too. It’s easy enough to donate money, but far more rewarding, we find, to donate our hearts and minds. Hence this book. Our personal stories capture a small slice of our lives on Isla Taboga. As you’ll read for yourself, we’re captivated by our tropical surroundings and at times a bit freaked out by the jungle and sea creatures we come into contact with.
We dedicate this book to Dr. Campo, who works selflessly for all of us living on Taboga, even though she herself commutes here from Panama City each week to provide her much-needed and appreciated services.
We’re grateful to have her as our local doctor. It’s not hard for us to understand why she’s considered one of the most respected members of our community, despite the fact that she doesn’t live here.
In one way or another, we’re all a part of the bigger community we call humanity. So thanks for buying this book, which makes a difference to our diabetic neighbors.
Those of us who contributed stories wanted to lend a hand beyond donating money. We wanted to invest some of our creative resources too. It’s easy enough to donate money, but far more rewarding, we find, to donate our hearts and minds. Hence this book. Our personal stories capture a small slice of our lives on Isla Taboga. As you’ll read for yourself, we’re captivated by our tropical surroundings and at times a bit freaked out by the jungle and sea creatures we come into contact with.
We dedicate this book to Dr. Campo, who works selflessly for all of us living on Taboga, even though she herself commutes here from Panama City each week to provide her much-needed and appreciated services.
We’re grateful to have her as our local doctor. It’s not hard for us to understand why she’s considered one of the most respected members of our community, despite the fact that she doesn’t live here.
In one way or another, we’re all a part of the bigger community we call humanity. So thanks for buying this book, which makes a difference to our diabetic neighbors.
