Sara Archbald

It continues the long-running work of new Native Future board member Sara Archbald, who helped initiate the fund in 2002 to help families working on a cooperative farm in El Jacinto, a Buglé village in Veraguas.

Sara Archbald, Native Future Education Project Coordinator, visited Panama in February to award and oversee the disbursement of over $10,000 in NF indigenous scholarship funds.
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It continues the important work begun by Native Future board member, and Returned Peace Corps volunteer Sara Archbald and has supported the education costs of more than 30 indigenous students.
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Students are asked to show Sara their report cards which gives her a great opportunity to talk with each student about classes, interests, progress.The spirit of community activist Basilio Perez lives!#### no

Sara Archbald, Assistant to the Director485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101207-774-1822, info@mainehistory.org

Sara Archbald x201 Administrative Assistant to the Director sarchbald@mainehistory.org

For reservations and pricing information, call Sara Archbald at (207) 774-1822 or email sarchbald@mainehistory.org.
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For more rental information, including pricing, date availability, rental fees and guidelines, please call Sara Archbald at (207) 774-1822 or email sarchbald@mainehistory.org.

Sara Archbald, Education Project Coordinator

Sara grew up in Pennsylvania Dutch farming country, north of Philadelphia, an area from which she was happy to flee in 1962 to attend college. Upon graduation she worked, in those early heady days of Peace Corps, as a literacy volunteer in Bogota, Colombia, and later with her husband, trained volunteers for other Latin American countries. SaraUltimately they settled in Maine, where Sara enjoyed an active community life with many volunteer positions in rural Maine while raising her two sons.

In 2000, Sara rejoined the Peace Corps as an agroforestry volunteer and served two years with the Ngabe-Bugle indigenous peoples of Panama in the isolated Nurun village of El Jacinto. Sara supported the activities of her village communal farm, as well as regional women's and farmer groups, teaching practices of composting, planting of tree nurseries, rice and fish tank farming - plus more. Sara returned to Portland, Maine in 2002, where she currently works at the Maine Historical Society as Executive Administrative Assistant.

While in Panama Sara helped start a scholarship fund with the El Jacinto Bugle families working in the cooperative farm: shoes and uniforms are purchased for participants' elementary children, tuition is paid for their few high school children. A reciprocal relationship has developed between Sara, who raises the funds, and her extended family in El Jacinto and beyond, who nourish her when she returns for two weeks every year to support the work of the scholarship fund. Sara is eager to work with Native Future in the fulfillment of the education component of its mission, while expanding and bringing more sustainability to the Ngabe Bugle scholarship program.
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The Basilio Perez Scholarship Program attracted Ellie from the very beginning because of her friendship with its leader, Sara Archbald, "one of the most authentic people I know.
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Bill visited his former parishioner, Sara Archbald, in El Jacinto, Panama in 2001, with his friend Allan Lovell.
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Nancy Ansheles has been a great friend of scholarship program director, Sara Archbald, for more than ten years.
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Focused on the value of communication and education, Nancy enthusiastically supports Sara in her efforts to fund and administer the scholarship program.