Daily Commute

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There are sidewalks in the jungle. Imagine your morning commute, instead of driving, you walk barefoot for 2.5 hours along a beautiful beach in the caribean, a few small jungle trails and pass the community of Cayo Paloma. After crossing a bridge over the water, you come to a shaded jungle trail- with a cement sidewalk and the steepest stairway you will ever see in the jungle. This is Steven’s daily commute- one way- to the community of Tobobe on the Peninsula Valiente in Bocas del Toro. He walks 5 hours daily to teach a sewing class all day and earns $20.00 a day. This is a very good wage in Panama but the course is only a few months long. Then Steven will have to look for work again. Until then, he makes the long daily commute through the only jungle I have seen with a concrete sidewalk.

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