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Being financially independent, improving their skills, creating a micro-enterprise or gaining greater self-confidence, are some common goals shared by women who have started this March their technical training in our project "Migrant Women" in El Alto. In preparation for this new semester and with the cooperation of the Mayor’s office, we modified the courses offered, to the economy situation of ...
New classrooms, with the ability to fill them with students. But, without enough tables and chairs so that everyone can sit down and learn comfortably? Children in Copacabana know this situation very well. With the support of the German embassy, we were able to equip José Ballivian School with furniture, just in time for the new school year. Two reinforcement course classrooms were equipped with 40 ...
As we have mentioned in our April edition, our school and Municipal access specialist, David, has had intense conversations, over the last few months, with different regions to identify opportunities for Family Student Lodging cooperation. What a better way to start January then with a new project. The municipality of Tentaguazu in Entre Rios during the last years has established and managed a self-employed ...
In mid-December, we celebrated the completion of the second semester of technical training courses for migrant women in El Alto. In a festive ceremony, the approximately 350 participants received their certificates. As a special highlight of the event, the women of the various clothing and knitting classes organized a public fashion show during which they showed off the self-produced clothes.
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In August, our El Alto Future House was filled again with many new faces. The "Technical Training for Migrant Women" program began a new semester with a solemn reception. Representatives from the Mayor’s office and our team gave a big welcome to the more than 300 registered women, who are able to choose between 15 different courses. Also, August had prepared a special learning offer for our Family ...
Bolivian Municipal Governments have their own budgets and political powers. Annual public assemblies are held, where the allocation of these budgets is voted on. We organized a workshop on this topic in Villa Aspiazu, so that representatives of civil society organizations, in Yanacachi, may have a better understanding on these assemblies. This workshop was held at the request of a local organization ...
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In our community of origin, Yanacachi, you could not think of work this month. Everyone was busy with the preparation and the patronal feast in honor of "Señor del Pichu". After mass, held at the "Santa Barbara" Parish, a long procession took a walk around the town, accompanied by folk dance groups and curious people. These past months several areas of our Future House in El Alto were remodeled. ...
It gives us pleasure to inform you this month, that our innovative concept “Weekly Boarding in Indigenous Families” also enjoys great interest beyond our project in Copacabana. The program offers a solution for the difficulties of school access in rural regions. In April, our local coordinator, David, traveled to the very rural region Chaco Chuquisaqueño in the center of Bolivia. ...