Fundación Pueblo

On the road from La Paz to the district of our foundation, Yanacachi, there are still a lot of landslides and grave accidents despite of intense construction works. This January the street was not not even passable due to heavy rains. That is why locals had to accept long detours in order to get to La Paz. Thanks to extensive research of our program for the access to civic information the citizens

December was the Student Lodging month. At the end of the 2016 school year, we evaluated the project together scholars, parents, host families and teachers. The event was accompanied with a varied program by our scholars that included words, dances and plays. The evaluation was a great success: The appreciation was very positive and all the participants felt benefited with the project. The analysis

This November the participating mothers of the technical training had to show what they learned at the fair organized by the Autonomous Municipal Government of El Alto. All courses attended; among them the elaboration of Glazed Chocolates and Fruits; tailors showing their vests and sweaters; driving educational students explained traffic rules and regulations, and the participants with the most benefits

Early October, we inaugurated a Daycare Center at our Future House. We offer to take care of the technical training student’s children. In honor of this occasion, representatives of El Alto Municipality as well as mothers were invited to view the daycare, refreshments were served at this sociable atmosphere. Our new offer was highly praised by the participants and apprentices were very thankful for

Village Foundation receives one or two volunteers from Germany every year. Since the beginning of August, we have been supported enthusiastically by Luisa who puts a great effort into our project “Empowering Migrant Women”. Luisa is originally from Münster in northwestern Germany, the 18 year-old

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