SBT Exhibits at Smithsonian

The local Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) hosted exhibitions on June 14th and 15th of 2008 for Environmental Week. Government and Non-Government Organizations (NGO's)involved in the environment were asked to attend and to exhibit. Many government agencies including; ANAM, ARAP, and NGO´s; USAID, The Nature Conservancy, The Wildlife Conservancy and others attended and exhibited. All in all, there were about 15 agencies and NGO´s presenting.

Soluciones Biotecnologicas Tropicales (SBT) was invited and also had an exhibition there. We were very excited to be asked to participate as one of three local NGO´s from Bocas. Our booth primarily promoted information on two of our projects; Educacion Si (electronic distance learning model) and the Aquaculture project at Salt Creek Indigineous Ngobe community. For more information on these projects see our website "Projects" page.

The exhibitions were viewed by local residents, school children, tourists, and other visiting organizations. We distributed a lot of material related to our projects, but more importantly, we demonstrated that there are people doing something about these issues. Many new people found a way to get involved in Bocas.