This month, our Women’s Project in El Alto has had the privilege to receive – and happily follow – an invitation to the Bolivian Parliament. A number of former trainees had the opportunity to show the small enterprises that had arisen from their participation in the project, occupying the Historical Yard of the House of Representatives.

The variety of ventures was amazing: From a number of different food processing enterprises to tailor shops, cell phone repair outfits to plumbing ventures.

Our Project Team joined in, too, including our kindergarten staff to look after the participants kids, as lovingly as during the time their mother had been attending our courses in El Alto.

The event served as an important incentive for project participants and team to keep up their struggle for more gender equity in Bolivia. That purpose was also accomplished by the certificates of recognition awarded to the women by the Member of the House of Representative who had been promoting the event.