Category Archives: Bolivia

Genevieve Drouin’s last day in Sucre was rainy, but she was able to explore the World Heritage Site and once the fog cleared, hopped a plane to La Paz for an important meeting with CIDA to cap off her trip. Continue reading →

Day four from Bolivia, and CFTC Program Manager Genevieve Drouin has had many inspiring conversations with parents in Bolivia’s most remote and impoverished communities. They want what all parents want: health and education – and a better life – for their children. And they are working hard to achieve it. Continue reading →

Blogging from the high Andes in Bolivia! Guest blogger and CFTC Program Manager, Genevieve Drouin, shares her insights into our work on children’s health in Sucre through partner, IPTK. Continue reading →

Leaving Bolivia reminds us, this Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada, of all we have to be grateful for. And, to the generous donors who travelled with us to Bolivia, we offer our deepest gratitude — for the pledge that they made to support Bolivian children in need in a very special way. Find out more in the last blog post from Bolivia. Continue reading →

On the second-last day of the Bolivian trip, protests disrupted the market visit but the schedule was full with visits to several child care centres in La Paz. The work being done by CFTC’s partners in La Paz and outlying areas make it possible for Bolivian parents to educate and care for their children well, while also being able to earn a living and provide for their families in sustainable ways. Continue reading →

The last leg of CFTC’s Bolivia donor tour has Lisa and the group visiting Alalay where homeless youth of La Paz find safety, shelter and a new life. The stories of what these children have experienced, shared so openly and with such trust, and the joy and resilience they demonstrate despite their early struggles, is a deeply moving experience for Lisa and the group. Continue reading →

The journey continues with a visit to two projects that Canadian Feed The Children funds entirely through the generosity of our child sponsors: Casa De Los Niños and Niño Jesus de Praga. We learn that Bolivians of all ages love to dance, and we again see the striking contrasts of landscape in Bolivia – jungle, mountain and lowland; rural and urban – as diverse and beautiful as the people themselves. Continue reading →

Lisa and the group visited an IPTK school and women’s centre in the village of Kacha Kacha, Bolivia. After a hairpin and hair-raising drive, the trip enabled the group to get out of the major centres and into the mountainous, rural areas where Bolivia’s poverty is more visible, and the need for Canadian Feed The Children funding even more significant. Continue reading →

This morning, we travelled 30 minutes outside of the village of Tarabuco to see the work of one of our partners, Juana Azurduy de Padilla Centre. Juana Azurduy works in the area of child rights and child advocacy, working closely with government to enact progressive policies with respect to gender and generational equality issues. Many of the community organizations we fund in Bolivia , including Juana Azurduy, are involved in child rights work, a key concern in this country of staggering beauty but extensive poverty. Continue reading →

I’m handing over the keys to the blog to Lisa Doucette-Tassé, CFTC’s Leadership and Legacy Giving Manager, who is hosting our 2011 Donor Trip to Bolivia. She’ll be reporting in daily on the group’s travels, with lots of photos! Join her as she brings you her perspective on the people, places and projects they are visiting. Saludos de Bolivia! Continue reading →