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.

» read more

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.

» read more

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.

» read more

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.

» read more

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.
» read more

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.

» read more

Programa de Prevención de Adicción del Juego

Organization Objectives

Provide a permanent mechanism for the prevention of compulsive gambling and associated health concerns, for gamers and gamblers within the province of Salta, deepening the understanding of the forms of gaming associated with health risks to the player and their living environment. Based on a three pillar strategy:

» read more

Colonia Mi Hogar

Organization Objectives

Colonia Mi Hogar is a foster care institution that provides housing, food, medical attention, education and comprehensive attention to minors who for a variety of reasons find themselves in situations of risk (orphans, low income background, legal restrictions, etc.)

» read more

Cruz Roja

Organization Objectives

Contribute to the bettering the lives of the people of Salta, especially those who find themselves in states of vulnerability.

» read more

Fundación ANPUY

Organization Objectives

Fundación ANPUY objectives are to create educational opportunities based in the stimulation of values, attitudes and abilities that promote social inclusion of children in situations of vulnerability and inequality.

» read more
Syndicate content