Fundación Pueblo

Trouble, social unrest and natural disaster tend to dominate news in and from Bolivia. So, the results of a recent poll are quite surprising: More than 80% of Bolivians expect changes for the better in the coming year.

That sort of optimism will enhance the work of The Village Foundation in 2026, too. Access to education in remote communities, better rural schools with safe drinking water ...

IIn December, we have been happy to receive another two public recognitions of our work: Our Women’s Project in El Alto was awarded a distinction by the Network of Organizations that Fight Violence against Women in that city. And the impressive documentary on largely illegal gold mining, which we had been able to produce in the framework of our “Informed Citizenship” Program in our home county ...

The public University of Tarija has been our co-operation partner for several years now. For students in their final years, we offer internships in rural communities where thy can apply what they have learnt to the benefit of the rural population.  The students are mainly engaged in our water-supply projects in the extremely dry and hot Chaco Region. That imposes considerable challenges to these ...

Our new program to improve the quality of education in rural schools in the Department of Tarija is not limited to upgrade and equip school infrastructure in communities that send their kids to our “Weekly Boarding with Indigenous Host Mothers” in Tantaguazu. This year, for example, we are able to improve the water supply of the village of Tentapiao.

Lacking safe and clean water, ...

In Chorokepiau, a remote village in southern Bolivia near Tarija, children attend their primary school in a precarious hut. To ensure that education remains possible, Fundación Pueblo, joint by the local county, supports the construction of a new, safe and child-friendly school building. This new building not only brings better learning conditions, but also helps the children get prepared more effectively ...

This month, Bolivia commemorates the 200th anniversary of its independence, the “Bicentenario”. The Village Foundation takes part in the celebrations, each of its 3 locations. In Yanacachi, our historical headquarters, we inaugurated a new billboard greeting our visitors at the village entrance. It highlights the ancient role of Yanacachi as the “Gateway to the Yungas Region of La Paz”. ...

As part of our new project to improve the quality of education at elementary schools in Guaraní communities in the Chaco, Fundación Pueblo has created a school garden with a drip system in collaboration with parents, school management and teachers at Tambo Elementary School and the local authorities of Entre Ríos.

Various ...

Women who have migrated from the countryside in search for better living conditions are the target group of our Women’s Project in El Alto, the big migrant city bordering La Paz. At times, however, our project team moves up-country as well. In June, it could celebrate the successful conclusion of a tailor course requested by the association of peasant women “Bartlina Sisa” in our home county ...

Illegal gold mining in Bolivia’s rivers continues unhindered – with fatal consequences for both nature and the population. With our project “Strengthening human rights defenders in the fight against illegal gold mining”, we remain committed to providing information in order to show the population the extent of the destruction and to initiate local initiatives.

A few days ago, the ...

Having mastered the first vocational training courses in our women’s project in 2025, the participants could share their newly acquired skills in a public show in April. What a show of diversity!

The recently trained tailors show off their latest creations: The traditional “Cholita” skirts in this year’s colours and appliqués.

She got her driver license ...

It is such a joy to see the amazing beauty of the National Park of Tariquá in the Department of Tarija. Hardly joyful, however, is the way to school for the children of the scattered, little communities in the vast area that extends over have a million acres.  Distances to the main school are long, roads are few and bad, and transport to school is not available. That is what we learned from ...

News we gather first hand on-site from communities, grass root organizations and the communal administration is the hallmark of our project “public access” to promote informed citizenship in our home county of Yanacachi in the Yungas Region of La Paz. The voices and images of those who move local developments and those affected by them are made public on rural radio and various social media ...