Fight Poverty: Educate Women in Panama

CAPTA is a program that reinforces leadership, self-esteem and empowers women to achieve their dreams. During 2015 we had 5 CAPTA groups, each one with different women who had their own struggle and where trying to fight for their family and themselves.

Today, we have more than 850 women graduated, and we are working to replicate the program in different cities in Panama.

Testimonials

Let’s meet Mildonia, she is a woman who graduated from CAPTA program during 2016:

“My name is Mildonia, I am 45 years old and I have four children”.  Mildonia lives in poverty, before starting the program she was dedicated to finding ways to support her family with informal jobs.

She took on the challenge of starting CAPTA and went through a long road of change and improvement. 

“The experience I had in Calicanto as a woman made me change my personality, I learned to make-up myself, and to project myself because I was very shy before”.

“When I graduated from CAPTA, I started as a general assistant in Grupo Rey and a few weeks later the manager promoted me to cashier and I accepted the challenge. I want to continue to grow professionally, and be promoted to office worker. I also want to take English classes. Everything that I learned, helped and the experience I have lived has help me a lot.”

CAPTA program is now growing, as we stared in Colon city this year. We are very excited about it, and we discovered that women in Colon are really different from women in Panama city, but their problems remains the same.  They just need someone who believes in their potential, and give them the opportunity to change.

CAPTA sows in them the seed of change and improvement, which is replicated in their children, in their family and community.

"If you change a woman, you change a family and if you change a family, you change the community".