{"id":4154,"date":"2022-03-28T06:17:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T04:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2022-03-28T06:18:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T04:18:24","slug":"volcan-quilters-a-not-for-profit-organization-that-helps-women-become-economically-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/2022\/03\/28\/volcan-quilters-a-not-for-profit-organization-that-helps-women-become-economically-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Volcan Quilters, a Not-for-Profit Organization that Helps Women Become Economically Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Volcan Quilters is a not-for-profit community service project that\nprovides classes and materials for quilt making and sewing. Their school has\nsewing machines available, 2 quilting machines, a\ncutting machine and all the tools and fabrics necessary to create beautiful\ntextile products. They make bed quilts, wall\nhangings, purses, table runners, placemats, aprons.  All items are individually made with the\nstyle and color selection left up to the students.  Their showroom features ready-made works for\nsale; special orders are common.  Many\nstudents have developed a private clientele after years of beautiful work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Besides teaching sewing techniques, the school also offers local women a\nplace to enjoy the camaraderie\nof quilting friends, share ideas and support and encourage each other in their\nwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helping Women\nBecome Independent Wage Earners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their goal is helping women become independent wage earners, while\nworking from home while they care for their\nfamilies.  This not-for-profit community\nservice project relies heavily on the support and generosity of Panamanians and\nexpats in the community.  Over the past\n12 years, they have had the help of two Peace Corp volunteers, a grant from the\nSoroptomist International de Volcan to start the classes, classroom space donated\nby a local businessman, and the free help of dozens of expat volunteers.  They have held classes in five locations and now have a safe school where they can teach, house\nthe necessary materials for quiltmaking, and exhibit their work.  All the background work is done by a team of\nloyal volunteers and 3-4 paid Panamanian teachers who work daily with students.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Unique School\nin Panama to Learn Quilting and Sewing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past 12 years, this organization had taught over 2,000 women in\nChiriqui and Costa Rica to sew, quilt and sell their items to their clients and\nto visitors.  They have exhibited at the\nNational Artisans Fair in Panama City for years and have mounted a museum\nquality exhibit for 8 years at the Boquete Library exhibition hall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All their products are quilted, either on a home machine, a classroom\nmachine, or their 12′ long-arm quilting machine.  They use 100% cotton fabric to construct\ntheir quilts, teaching patterns both historic and modern. The quality tools\nused in making their products are the most modern available and are not easily found in Panama.  There is no place like this school anywhere\nin Panama with the only long-arm quilting machine in the country.  All these things are available to both\nstudents and clients under the guidance of teachers and volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women, the\nUntapped Resource of Panama<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The women of Panama are a wonder, an untapped resource for the country.\nThey are honest, hard-working, creative, and love to create what they sell and\nover 2000 women have gained something from\ntheir work in the school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

General\nInformation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook<\/strong>: Volcan Quilters\nor Acolchados de Volcan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instagram<\/strong>: @VolcanQuilters<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cell phone<\/strong>: 6539-1270 or Phone<\/strong>: 709-6059 (evenings). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working Hours<\/strong>: Open from\nTuesday to Saturday from 9 AM to 3 PM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Address<\/strong>: located one block off\nthe main street of Volcan as you enter the town, behind the Escuela Primaria\nBasica, in the large green building on the corner of Volcan’s central park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publishing by Carol Doak<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Volcan Quilters is a not-for-profit community service project that provides classes and materials for quilt making and sewing. Their school has sewing machines available, 2 quilting machines, a cutting machine and all the tools and fabrics necessary to create beautiful textile products. They make bed quilts, wall hangings, purses, table runners, placemats, aprons.  All items […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4160,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions\/4160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}