Author Archives: Maria Gerlspeck
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An important instrument of transparency and participation of Village Foundation is the Annual General Assembly which we hold each year in our municipality of origin, Yanacachi, and to which we invite all the inhabitants of the region. From Tarija, our coordinator, David invited the Local Coordinator of the Weekly Boarding School in Indigenous Families and the Representative of the Entre Ríos Education
Report in the monthly paper "Centro Cultural Alemán" on the driving school courses of our project "Promotion of women with vocational training for migrant women in El Alto" (La Paz / El Alto, Bolivia) September 2019. 2019190900-Frauen am Steuer!-MonatsblattCCA
In August, our projects were visited by two groups of friends from Germany. In Yanacachi, Oscar reported on Public Access work and at the same time, visitors were able to learn more about the local cultivation of coffee and coca. Women in El Alto proudly shared their experiences of the training courses. In Tentaguazu, the opportunity was seized and the new sanitary project was inaugurated along with
Report of the Spanish newspaper "El País" on the delivery of completed works of the project "Improving the quality and sustainability of Student Housing in Family in the Tentaguazu community" (Tarija, Bolivia), August 10th, 2019. Entre Ríos, entregan
In July, 200 women celebrated the successful completion of the semester of our program "Technical Training for Migrant Women in El Alto". The mayor of El Alto personally handed over the certificates of the course to the female participants. During the past five months, the women attended classes in which they learned to repair cell phones or paint walls, for example. In this way we want to enable the
Report of the Bolivian newspaper "El Alto es Noticia" on the closing ceremony of the first semester of 2019 of the project "Promoting women with vocational training for women migrants in El Alto" (El Alto, Bolivia), July 9, 2019. 190709-AlcaldesaEntregaCertificadosaMujeres-ElAltoEsNoticia
In June, our team in Tarija once again set out on the long way from the town of Tarija to the countryside, where the Guaraní village of Tentaguazu is located in the dry and hot Chaco region. There, since the beginning of the year, we have been improving the living conditions of the host mothers and their protégés by building bathrooms and plastering walls. Together with the mayor we visited the
Where does our garbage go? How is it discarded? Who is responsible? Urgent questions that arise again and again in the Municipality of Yanacachi. In the main communities and its surroundings you can see many unofficial garbage containers. The increasing consumption of products in plastic packaging has aggravated the problem in recent years. That is why our program „Public Access“ has decided
Breaking down gender stereotypes and daring new things - in April we would like to report two special courses in our vocational training program for migrant women in El Alto: The construction boom in El Alto and La Paz is currently in great demand for qualified personnel in this field. Women are hardly represented in this professional field in Bolivia, many do not dare to work in such a "male domain".
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
Publication on Facebook about the equipping of two classrooms of the school "José Ballivián" in the municipality of Yunchará in Tarija with the support of the funds for Microprojects 2018, from the Federal Foreign Office of Germany (La Paz, Bolivia), 1st March 2018. Embajada