Sustainable Bolivia

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Over the past two years, we were lucky enough to host a resident artist living and working with us at Sustainable Bolivia. His paintings grace the walls of houses, offices, cafes and galleries in Bolivia. In an effort to maintain this cultural influe...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background: CADEPIA was founded in 1985 to generate growth in Cochabamba's business sector. It focuses on providing consultancy and credit to micro, small and medium-sized businesses. It is an entirely self-financed organization that works alongside...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background: The National Center for the Rehabilitation of the Blind was founded in 1952. The organization began as a vocational school for visually impaired women. In 1976, the establishment changed its name to The Manuela E. Gandarillas Rehabilita...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Atendi helps children with both mental and physical needs, including such disorders as mental paralysis, autism, and Down syndrome. Most of these children come from poorer families who cannot otherwise afford treatments. Atendi Programs At presen...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

The main goal of CEDESOL is to reach out to rural communities via programs of social and economic development, so as to enhance lives by way of renewable resources. By designing and implementing micro-enterprises, CEDESOL has the ability to improve t...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

The Centro de Salud Cerro Verde is located in the southern zone of Cochabamba and serves 30,000 people from low-income backgrounds. The center has facilities for pediatrics, gynecology, laboratory work, psychology, and general medical attention. Heal...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Energetica seeks to improve the quality of life of rural and marginal urban populations by promoting development through the rational use of energy. At present, only 17.2% of rural families have access to energy sources. Energetica aims to change thi...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background: CECAM (the Center for Multidisciplinary Training and Advising) is a Bolivian non-profit foundation that was founded in Oruro in 1997. Since then it has expanded to include programs of holistic training in La Paz, Santa Cruz and Cochabamb...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background: Centro de Salud Espana was initially constructed a few hundred meters away from where the current building stands with the help of the International Red Cross. The new center, inaugurated in December 2008, is larger, with a full time sta...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background: The Pacata Health Center was built in 1990 and is situated in the northern zone of Cochabamba, which is easily accessible. Funding is generated from the Ministry of Health. The Center offers the services of four doctors, five nurses, one...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background: Educar es fiesta was founded 1999 to provide opportunities in the performing arts to children without safe homes and in many cases living on the street. It has now expanded to include an educative and artistic center that teaches the pro...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

The Gaia Pacha Foundation is a Bolivian non-profit organization that was created by a group of fourteen young environmental engineering graduates in 2006 who wanted to combine their knowledge of the environment with a desire to help young Bolivian so...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background: The Hogar de Suenos was born of the initiative of a pastor working in Cochabamba who, after seeing so many abandoned and neglected children in the city, was moved to do something. The orphanage opened its doors in 2006 in order to take ...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background: In the 1980s, IDEI was founded by a group of Law and Social Science professionals at San Simon University who were participating in various socio-political and legal research projects. Their research and passion for international relatio...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background: Since 1981, IFFI has been working with women who come from low- income backgrounds and who live on the periphery of Cochabamba. Their goal is to create a democratic society with equal rights and opportunities for both men and women. O...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background: Infante was founded in September 1987 with the principal aims of assisting women and their families who are victims of abuse and domestic violence, and protecting young people at risk of trafficking and abuse. Throughout the 1990s, In...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Mano-a-Mano is a Bolivian organization that was founded in 1994 with the aim of distributing medical equipment to areas of the country which needed it most. From there it grew to include the construction of health clinics, currently the organization'...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background: Mosoj Yan, which means 'new road' in Quechua, was founded in 1991 with the aim of assisting young women working on the streets. This Christian organization provides various different rehabilitation and prevention services to young women ...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background: The Movimiento Sonrisa was founded in 1997 by a group of high school students who saw the need to assist children from poor backgrounds staying in Cochabamba's main public hospital, who often lacked emotional support and urgently needed ...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background P.A.I. Tarpuy was founded in 2005 by a group of professionals who found the need to reach out to children living in the streets of Quillacollo, a town outside Cochabamba that particularly lacks support services for such children. A center...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background: Performing Life was founded in 2005 with the objective of using the arts as a method of improving the lives of children who work or live on the street. Juggling is popular within the organization, and handicrafts are made by children and...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background PROINPA promotes technological innovation to improve the competitiveness of Andean agriculture (in particular potato and quinoa cultivation), food safety and the conservation as well as sustainable use of genetic resources, to benefit loc...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background At the request of women living in the rural community of Huancarani, 'Proyecto Artesania Zona Andina' (PAZA) began in July of 2007. The original focus of the project was to teach natural dye techniques and to market traditional weaving. P...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Background: In 1996, Puntiti reached an agreement with the Bolivian government to provide social services to orphans and abandoned children with severe special needs. It initially received twenty children with mental and physical needs but has grown...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Sustainable Bolivia Language School provides high quality instruction for students of all levels and ages. Oriented towards socially and ecologically aware travelers/volunteers, all of the profits from our language school are reinvested to help suppo...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

CAICC serves children and adolescents who are abandoned because their parents are either incarcerated or have migrated to other countries to search for economic opportunities. Volunteers can help in either the day care center or the school. CAICC ...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Performing Life empowers youth through visual and performing arts. Juggling is popular within the organization, and handicrafts are made by children and sold abroad to maximize profits. The money is invested into micro-enterprise projects run by the ...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

Niños con Valor (NCV) was founded in 2005 to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of children with difficult and often traumatic pasts, empowering them to move beyond their circumstances, realize their full potential and pass on the valu...

Bolivia: Cochabamba

PAAC: Programa de Asistencia Bioenergética y Apoyo al Campesino Paac was founded by a group of students from the Faculty of Agriculture at San Simon University 27 years ago. Up to now, the founding members are still involved with the organization...