Gaia Pacha

Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia Setting: Peri-Urban Established: 2006 Staff: 14

Mission and Objectives: The Gaia Pacha Foundation seeks to create and implement scientific proposals to increase environmental awareness and change people’s attitudes and behavior towards the environment. The Foundation’s overall goal is to tackle problems where human actions alter ecosystem balances by developing real alternatives using local and scientific knowledge and thus, satisfy the needs of both humans and their environment.

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El Centro Tata Esteban

Tiraque – Cochabamba, Bolivia

Introduction:

The Tata Esteban Center is an NGO founded 1993 by Padre Esteban Avelli in Tiraque, a rural community about 2 hours from Cochabamba. The organization is an alternative education center that offers young people in the community the opportunity to finish and obtain a high school diploma, as well as gaining technical skills and training. The Center works with youth and Quechua peasants between the ages of 15 and 30 years old who have been marginalized from the state educational system and were unable to complete primary school. Tata Esteban was originally conceived with the objective of promoting the role of young Quechua females (SIPASKUNA) in the community through professional development and alternative education, and in 2000 the program expanded to include young Quechua males (WAYNAKUNA). The Center currently works with approximately 450 youth providing technical training in a range of fields while placing emphasis on the value of local norms and customs.

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Movimiento Sonrisa

Movimiento Sonrisa Location: Cochabamba Setting: Urban Established: 2009 Organization Objectives The Movimiento Sonrisa’s two objectives are: to assist young hospital patients who lack family support as they undergo operations and recovery, and to raise money in the local community and abroad to pay for medical care for children whose families cannot afford it.

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Programa de Desarrollo Agropecuario Integrado (PDAI)

Cochabamba, Bolivia Mission: PDAI conducts microcredit activities with agricultural families and small businesses in the rural and periurban regions of Cochabamba. PDAI aims to satisfy work capital and investment requirements for clients in the agricultural, livestock, industrial, commercial, and artisan sectors who generally don’t have access to conventional credit establishments, thereby supporting the social and economic development of the community.

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Centro Infatil “Mis Huellitas” (CIMH)

Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia Setting: Urban Established: 1999 Staff: 15

Mission

To make the Centro Infantil “Mis Huellitas” an educational space of organized work that encourages teaching and learning based on values, nutritional habits, motor skills, language and social skills. Fostering an understanding of individual differences among kids aging from 6 months to twelve years old.

Objectives

  • Promote institutional management capacities that generate teaching and learning processes based in values, nutritional habits, motor skills, language and social-affective that impact the quality of professional development of the members of CIMH.
  • Implement all the financial management and control tools required for an adequate functioning of the CIMH promoting practices that impact in the organization´s mission.
  • Support the community from CIMH with the organization and coordination of the activities development that impact in the zone and families development.
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Centro de Capacitacion y Asesoramiento Multidiciplinario (CECAM)

Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia    Setting: Peri-urban    Established: 2009    Staff: 4

Mission

CECAM aims to increase the health and quality of life for community members through the distribution of clean technology: namely, energy efficient cook stoves and water purification systems.

Description

CECAM Bolivia was founded in November 2009, with the purpose of providing assistance to those with scarce resources and improving the environment in Cochabamba. CECAM was created with an eye to ¨help people, help themselves.¨ As an organization, they strive for transparency in all sectors, and also aim to reach marginalized populations who do not normally have access to support services. CECAM´s founders have experience working in low income communities and with clean technology, while maintaining respect for the traditions and customs that are a vital part to the people of Cochabamba. CECAM builds relationships through trust and respect, without which, success and integration in the communities they work with would not be possible.

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Comité de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado Quintanilla Ltda.

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Location: Cochabamba Setting: Urban Established: 1990 Staff: 8

 

Subject Areas

Environment: Water Pollution, Water Systems Management, Sanitation

Health: Public Health, Disease Prevention

Community Development: Infrastructure Development

Research: Quantitative/Qualitative Analysis and Program Evaluation, Needs Assessment, Survey Public Opinion

 

Organization Objectives

Comité de Agua is a cooperative that aims to independently administer water services through a community-developed system to meet the growing demand of the community and to improve water quality. Its goals are to:

  • Find water sources, build infrastructure to effectively treat the water, bring water to the community, and develop a sewage service
  • Encourage people to organize and participate in services through the use of cooperative methods
  • Evaluate current services and design new projects to better serve the cooperative members and the community
  • Maintain a balanced relationship between social and economic institutional considerations through the efficient management of human, material, and financial resources
  • Contract loans and receive economic and financial support from national and international sources
  • Carry out seminars, forums, and other activities to promote cooperative principles
  • Join foundations and associations, including similar national and foreign institutions
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Anzaldo Department of Education

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Location: Cochabamba Setting: Rural Established: 1952 Staff: 138

 

Subject Areas

Youth and Education: Communication, Social Leadership, Cognitive Development, Complimentary Learning, Child and Adolescent Development, Counseling, Development Interventions, Trauma Counseling, Personal and Professional Development, Teaching

Environment: Environmental Education

Health: Health Education, Public Health

Community Development: Youth Education

Human Rights: Human Rights Education, Immigration, Poverty, Social Issues, Legal Issues, Equality, Child Advocacy, Environmental Law, Community Action, Forced Migration, Refugee Protection

Research: Quantitative/Qualitative Analysis and Program Evaluation, Asset Mapping, Needs Assessment, Public Opinion, Bio/Psycho/Social Mapping

 

Organization Objectives

The Anzaldo Department of Education aims to provide high-quality education to the inhabitants of the Municipality of Anzaldo, which includes 68 communities and one central city. Its goals are to:

  • Aid students in acquiring primary, secondary, and higher education
  • Promote equal access to education
  • Draw more teachers to the 52 schools
  • Find funding to reconstruct destroyed school houses, construct boarding homes for children who live kilometers from their corresponding school, and provide meals for the children
  • Provide extracurricular and summer programs for students
  • Develop an academic curriculum that is sustainable based on resources available to Anzaldo
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Centro de Promoción Rural “Jesús Maria” (CEPRUJEM)

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Location: Anzaldo, Cochabamba Setting: Rural Established: 1990 Staff: 215

 

Subject Areas

Community Development: Youth Education

Environment: Environmental Education, Organic Agriculture

Health: Health Education, Public Health

Human Rights: Human Rights Education, Immigration, Poverty, Social Issues, Legal Issues, Equality, Child Advocacy, Environmental Law, Community Action, Forced Migration, Refugee Protection

Youth and Education: Communication, Social Leadership, Cognitive Development, Complimentary Learning, Child and Adolescent Development, Counseling, Development Interventions, Trauma, Social Development, Teaching

 

Organization Objectives

CEPRUJEM is a rural development organization whose mission is to improve the education and health of communities in the Anzaldo and Sacabamba Municipalities. It aims to provide an integrated model of development that can be followed by other rural communities. Its goals are to:

  • Provide quality primary and secondary education, including vocational education
  • Offer primary health care and public health education
  • Offer community social support services
  • Promote and educate the community on agriculture development and the maintenance and cultivation of organic product greenhouses

 

Program Information

 

1. Health Program

CEPRUJEM’s doctors and nurses are dedicated to providing primary care services in the nearby indigenous communities. Beyond offering general health care, they have an ambulance to transport patients to the nearest hospital if needed. CEPRUJEM’s main objectives are to serve the child and youth populations that attend the local schools. It also has mobile brigades that travel to isolated communities and homes for public health campaigns.

 

Opportunities

  • Assist in providing primary health care in rural communities
  • Facilitate nutrition programs at schools and in isolated communities
  • Help with vaccination campaigns
  • Create low-literacy friendly health awareness materials
  • Organize and facilitate health workshops on topics including, but not limited to:
    • Reproductive health and wellness
    • Child development and health
    • Common illnesses and methods of prevention
    • Basic hygiene and self-care
  • Plan health skill-training events for community health workers
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Fundación Pro Hábitat

Fundación Pro Hábitat

Location: Cochabamba Setting: Urban/Periurban Established: 1992 Staff: 8

 

Subject Areas

Microenterprise: Micro-Credit, Strategic Management, Business Development, Managing Financial Resources, Social Entrepreneurship, Community Financial Institutions, Budgeting and Financial Management, Fundraising

Environment: Water Systems Management, Sewage Management, Sanitation, Energy Resources, Risk Management

Community Development: Community Empowerment, Building Social Capital, Social Work, Social Responsibility, Infrastructure Development, Construction, Building, Planning

Research: Quantitative/Qualitative Analysis and Program Evaluation

Human Rights: Immigration, Poverty, Social Justice, Legal Issues, Equality, Community Action

 

Organization Objectives

Fundación Pro Hábitat works to build the capacity of socially and economically marginalized families to improve their homes and neighborhoods and create healthy, safe, and sustainable communities. Its goals are to:

  • Offer workshops on eco-friendly resource use, including water conservation, management and construction of sanitation systems, and how to maximize local resources
  • Encourage culturally appropriate and sustainable construction resources through the use of local materials and technology
  • Promote urban organizations that create a community of awareness and participation using:
    • Strategic articulation
    • Safe and open spaces for reflection and debate
    • Proactive involvement
  • Incorporate low-income families into state politics so they can exercise their rights to a home and a dignified life
  • Offer credit, small loans, and technical assistance to periurban clients that work in transportation, small business, and handicrafts
  • Integrate community participation, social transparency, gender equality, and solidarity into all projects
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