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This month, in cooperation with the Dutch organization "Libre Foundation”, a 6-day workshop in Yanachachi was carried out to improve the leadership skills of social grassroots organisations. Here techniques and skills such as conflict management, team leadership and rhetoric were taught. In addition to the Chairman of the neighboorhood Association, the miners' union and the Youth Committee ...
At the end of July we were able to look forward again to a visit from Germany. Richard Berger and Christiane Lettow-Berger from the association "Friends of Bolivia eV", which has supported us for many years, were accompanied by Eike and Maria Hallitzky. They were able to see at first hand the Foundation’s projects that they support here in Bolivia. As a prelude, a working breakfast ...
On the weekend of the 13th and 14th of June the Fundación Pueblo held the 24th Annual Meeting its founding base of Yanacachi where the activities of the past year were presented. In addition to the entire team of the Foundation also attending were the meeting partners from La Paz as well as numerous citizens Yanacachis. This year elections were in the program. Don Reynaldo Uria was thereby ...
With the inauguration of the “Weekly Boarding in Indigenous Families" program in the remote village of San Luis de Palqui on 9 June, the Fundación Pueblo could for the first time its 24-year history set foot in the southern department of Tarija in Bolivia. This pilot project will allow 20 children of the county Office Yunchará access to education. The local coordinator Nancy Erazo ...
Since mid-May the large room on the ground floor of the "Casa del Maestro’’ (the teacher's house) has found a new use. This room that has been empty for some time has been transformed into the new public library of Yanacachi. On May 23, the library was officially inaugurated in the presence of village authorities. In addition to the numerous books there, the local people can also ...
The month of May was all about feminism and women’s rights movements in the "House of the Future”. Under the program "Strengthening young women migrants in El Alto" many women participated in three seminars. In two of the seminars topics such as sexuality, body care, dealing with violence in the family environment as well as human rights were addressed - participants discussed, ...
Two of the “Weekly Boarding in Indigenous Families" programs in the north of Potosí will be operated on behalf of the district office by the Fundación Pueblo. In Uyuni 42 children (33 boys and 9 girls) were enrolled at the beginning of the school year; and in Capunita 25 children (15 girls and 10 boys) were taken on by the program to live with host indigenous families during school ...
The final year students of Jorge Zalles school in La Chojlla saw their school hall transformed into a seminar for young leaders. With the help of experts from the organisation "Wayna Hilana Yanapana" (Education for Integration), who shaped the design and contents of the seminar, the young people could strengthen their self-confidence and learn important skills such as team spirit ...
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