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Bolivia was not spared from the global coronavirus pandemic. There are currently exit restrictions across the country to try to contain the virus outbreak. Public life was reduced to a minimum with the "Health Emergency" program. Our projects are also affected and try to adapt as best as possible to the new situation in the country. Our team from the Public Access program in Yanacachi supports the ...
In February we completed the preparations for the new semester of our Technical Training program for Migrant Women in El Alto. Participants can choose from 13 different courses to improve their opportunities in the labor market. The program, like last year, will focus on courses that will raise awareness of women's non-traditional occupations. For example, this year the participants will be able to ...
To start the year 2020, we signed an agreement with the Mayor of Yunchará to continue with the Boarding School in Indigenous Families in Copacabana. As in 2019, elementary students, who live far away from the school, have the opportunity to live with a host mother during the week. She takes care of of her guests with love in a family atmosphere. The local coordinator, as a contact person, is also ...
In December, 256 women celebrated the successful graduation of the technical training semester in El Alto. In the 15 courses, which took place in the last five months, in addition to traditional knowledge in the area of gastronomy and beauty, some participants also had the opportunity to acquire knowledge about the maintenance of printers and computers or the production of footwear. The program was ...
The Fundación Pueblo team thanks you for your support this year and wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2020!
November was a socially and politically conflicting month in Bolivia. Gradually, the situation calms down again. We hope for a peaceful continuation of the begun conflict settlement and the holding of free elections in the next months. Despite the severity of the dispute, we continued our project activities as well as possible in the past few weeks. In the department of Tarija, the situation was ...
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An important instrument of transparency and participation of Village Foundation is the Annual General Assembly which we hold each year in our municipality of origin, Yanacachi, and to which we invite all the inhabitants of the region. From Tarija, our coordinator, David invited the Local Coordinator of the Weekly Boarding School in Indigenous Families and the Representative of the Entre Ríos Education ...
In August, our projects were visited by two groups of friends from Germany. In Yanacachi, Oscar reported on Public Access work and at the same time, visitors were able to learn more about the local cultivation of coffee and coca. Women in El Alto proudly shared their experiences of the training courses. In Tentaguazu, the opportunity was seized and the new sanitary project was inaugurated along with ...
In July, 200 women celebrated the successful completion of the semester of our program "Technical Training for Migrant Women in El Alto". The mayor of El Alto personally handed over the certificates of the course to the female participants. During the past five months, the women attended classes in which they learned to repair cell phones or paint walls, for example. In this way we want to enable the ...
In June, our team in Tarija once again set out on the long way from the town of Tarija to the countryside, where the Guaraní village of Tentaguazu is located in the dry and hot Chaco region. There, since the beginning of the year, we have been improving the living conditions of the host mothers and their protégés by building bathrooms and plastering walls. Together with the mayor we visited the ...