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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 ...
June was a month of intense advocacy meetings and organizing Student Housing with people in the community of Copacabana - Tarija, the project will begin after winter vacation. Earlier, in May, after difficult negotiations because of fiscal crisis faced by the municipalities of Bolivia, the interagency cooperation agreement with Yunchará was signed to implement Student Housing in the community. This ...
Donations of our friends are being been put to work in Northern Potosí, where the local county government has assumed full financial and administrative responsibility of the project in Uyuni and Capunita, run by Fundación Pueblo until 2016. 100% of running costs have been incorporated in the county’s 2016 budget. In an effort to maintain quality of service, Fundación Pueblo maintains presence ...
A particularly spectacular fundraiser took place at this years Oltiger-Määrt. Tobias Martin and Florence Brenzikofer, former volunteers for Fundación Pueblo, delighted both young and old with their homemade wooden Ferris wheel. The voluntary contributions of the Ferris wheel riders directly benefited the “weekly boarding with host families” program. During their volunteering time in northern ...
Plurinational Legislative Assembly Senate awards a Recognition to Village Foundation on its 25 years of existence, for promoting uninterruptedly school access, technical training, promotion of women and rural development. Senator Rosario Rodriguez Cuellar, who represents Department of Tarija, took the initiative for this distinction. On ...
Our 2016 Program for “Public Access” in Yanacachi kicked off with a workshop on proper usage of new social media such as Facebook. Camila and Mariano, professional communicators initiators of "Travel Trajectories", switched a couples of days of their Native Argentina for tropical heat in Yanacachi, to teach Felix Ernesto Moscoso’s young school students that the new media allows them to share ...
This year, the Equal Gender Direction of El Alto joins forces with Village Foundation, to offer technical training to women supporting their families with their small businesses in El Alto. The cooperation is based on joint activities developed under the project "Migrant Women Entrepreneurship” in 2015, and Access Program to Technical Training of Village Foundation. On March 17th the bilateral ...
“Liberty Plaza” in Yanacachi: Here, in the heart of the Bolivian Andes, The Village Foundation was born on February 18th 1991. At the same place, exactly a quarter of a century later, the Yanacachi County Council has called upon Fundación Pueblo to receive a public award for its 25 years of community service. Joint projects are recalled and new ones are envisaged. Meanwhile, The Village Foundation ...
Every 24th of January we celebrate in the Bolivia -still- the poorest country in South America, The Abundance Day. The "Ekkeko is celebrated on streets and squares, you will find everything you desire to have during the year in miniature. The most popular shopped are houses, cars and bills from the most important currencies. For 15 cents, you can buy a Bachelor degree or an imposing hen or cock for ...
A very special event marked the end of our 2015 project, Empowering Migrant Women in El Alto. On December 19 in and in front of the "Future House" El Alto and La Paz technical training institutions gathered together as a fair, offering information on their present training and schooling. The audience came from 1ero de Mayo neighborhood aswell as inland, several former scholars of our technial training ...
"Plus" school students of Kandel City took advantage of Palatina, Germany Christmas Fair to inform, together with dedicated social teachers about a Bolivian project, Family Student Lodging, and raised funds for their Bolivian peers. Despite of the nasty weather, they sold pastries, waffles and homemade eggnog for almost six hundred dollars that were donated to this Bolivian project. On a previous ...