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Village Foundation friends and collaborators to discuss a future workshop in Landau (Pfalz) this June. Over the weekend, a work retrospective was performed on the Foundation in Bolivia as well as its promoting associations in Germany, Europe;challenges on both sides of the Atlantic were also analyzed. SA particular emphasis was placed on the integration and connection with various volunteers who accompanied ...
Last month we started a very special complementary project, for our Student Lodging scholars and host mothers. "Access to pipe water and sanitation”. Twelve of the thirteen host mothers, who host our scholars this year, have no access to pipe water or adequate bathroom. Some have toilets without water at home; others have to use the school’s bathrooms. Every morning they have to go to the main ...
In April, we inaugurated our technical training program for migrant women at our Future House in El Alto. Classes started a few weeks ago, therefore our participants took the opportunity to present their first learnings. Among them are, like last year, bakers, tailors and beauticians. These course offerings are very popular, we had a great deal of visitor. Village Foundation is part of the active ...
Most of the time we pay lots of attention to the scholars of our program Student Boarding School in Copacabana. However, our host moms do have at least the same importance as their protégés. Without their willingness to offer their time, we would not be able to realize our project. Neverthemind they benefit as well in various ways. Since with beginning of the new school year the number of scholars ...
The student boarding school in Copacabana is again up and running after clases started the beginning of February. The great success of our program in the last year was recognized within the entire district, thus, almost doubling the demand of scholarships from 30 to 50. Fortunately, we could also find more interested women in being host mums which allowed us to increase our capacity correspondingly. ...
On the road from La Paz to the district of our foundation, Yanacachi, there are still a lot of landslides and grave accidents despite of intense construction works. This January the street was not not even passable due to heavy rains. That is why locals had to accept long detours in order to get to La Paz. Thanks to extensive research of our program for the access to civic information the citizens ...
December was the Student Lodging month. At the end of the 2016 school year, we evaluated the project together scholars, parents, host families and teachers. The event was accompanied with a varied program by our scholars that included words, dances and plays. The evaluation was a great success: The appreciation was very positive and all the participants felt benefited with the project. The analysis ...
This November the participating mothers of the technical training had to show what they learned at the fair organized by the Autonomous Municipal Government of El Alto. All courses attended; among them the elaboration of Glazed Chocolates and Fruits; tailors showing their vests and sweaters; driving educational students explained traffic rules and regulations, and the participants with the most benefits ...
Early October, we inaugurated a Daycare Center at our Future House. We offer to take care of the technical training student’s children. In honor of this occasion, representatives of El Alto Municipality as well as mothers were invited to view the daycare, refreshments were served at this sociable atmosphere. Our new offer was highly praised by the participants and apprentices were very thankful for ...
Village Foundation receives one or two volunteers from Germany every year. Since the beginning of August, we have been supported enthusiastically by Luisa who puts a great effort into our project “Empowering Migrant Women”. Luisa is originally from Münster in northwestern Germany, the 18 year-old ...
After several months of preparation, we were able to officially inaugurate the new Student lodging in Tarija this month of August. More than 30 children of neighboring communities of the arid highlands of the Department of Tarija have found host community mothers in Copacabana; to home, feed and take care of them during the school week days. This is a way to dramatically reduces the risk of forsake ...
We met an overwhelming demand this months, when our “House of the Future” reopened for its 2016 vocational training program: During the first days already, more than a hundred women registered for the courses aiming at working women and those looking to open a micro-enterprise. 8 of the 12 courses programmed this year are already up and running: Tailoring winter garments, manicure, chocolate ...