This is a great article from BBC that covers the working lives of some people here in Panama with some video interviews.
Andrea Lino is waiting just outside the village of Drua, on a sandy beach formed in a wide bend of the River Chagres, 40km (25 miles) north of Panama City.
Wearing the traditional costume of the Embera people, Andrea is a tribal chief turned trainee teacher who earns a living making traditional crafts for tourists.
Life in the village is simple but not without comfort. The villagers live in palm-thatched huts and cook on open fires, but they have solar panels for electrcity.
The Embera are originally from the border Darien region between Panama and Colombia, but some groups moved nearer the capital after the region became dangerous because of drug-running gangs.