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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Youth and Education: Complimentary Learning, Teaching,
Child and Adolescent Development
Organization Objectives
El Molino is a school that
provides basic, primary, and secondary education. In addition to following
national education standards, El Molino aims to develop students’ awareness of
social, cultural and gender equality. Their goals are to:
Guide the development of students’ academic
and personal potential
Facilitate activities to elevate students’
self-esteem
Prepare students to meet the demands of a
changing country and world by providing education on the preservation of
natural and cultural resources
Teach the values of justice, ethnic parity,
and social equality among men and women
Prepare and encourage students to pursue
advanced studies
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.
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.
WARMI is a small non-profit community center that provides multifaceted
social services for a neighborhood on the outskirts of Cochabamba. Its mission is to offer support
to working women and their children, as well as promote the sustainability of
healthy families and a healthy community. Its goals are to:
Provide educational and other
support for women, children, and adolescents
Assist women emigrating from
rural areas as they integrate into the city by helping them attain
economic stability and providing affordable daycare, support groups, and
educational workshops
Provide health insurance and
meals to children who would not have access without the support of WARMI
Run a small cooperatively-run
soap factory to help financially sustain the organization’s community
programs
Offer workshops on legal
advice, hygiene and nutrition
Organize women’s empowerment
groups to provide a safe space for women to gather and share knowledge
Offer daycare services for
infants and children, including development activities, meals, and general
caretaking
Support students in the
community by providing tutoring programs, a library, extracurricular
activities, clubs, and a scholarship program for the older students
pursuing degrees
Provide affordable health
insurance to Center participants that do not already have insurance
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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Microfinance: Entrepreneurship,
Strategic Management, Marketing, Strategic Business Development, Managing
Financial Resources, Social Entrepreneurship, New Enterprises, Community
Financial Institutions, Budgeting and Financial Management, Business and the
Environment, Fundraising
Community Development: Community
Empowerment, Social Capital
Women’s Empowerment: Women’s
Business Support
Education: CapacityBuilding, Training Courses, General
Business Courses
Organization Objectives
CADEPIA provides local
entrepreneurs with educational and technical support to help them develop and
expand their small businesses; in addition, it helps them to expand into new
markets to sustain their businesses’ growth and success. CADEPIA’s
main objectives are to:
Provide small business development courses in Food
Services, Textiles, Furniture, Jewelry Work, Artisans, Leather and
Metalwork
Offer capacity building workshops in marketing,
international and national business development, accounting, general
business, and management strategies
Seek out funds for new businesses to use in their
development
Help entrepreneurs to expand their current businesses
domestically and internationally
Improve clients’ methods of quality control and sound
financial management
Community Development:
Community Empowerment, Social Work, Social Responsibility, Radio Communication
Health:
HIV/AIDS, Public Health, Epidemiology, Prevention
Youth and Education:
Communication, Teaching
Human Rights: Social
Justice, Equality
Research: Quantitative/Qualitative Analysis
and Program Evaluation, Public Opinion, Bio/Social Mapping
Organization Objectives
IDH works to develop social awareness
and preventative medicine while promoting gender equity and basic human rights
for everyone. The SIDAcción program strives to slow the rate of HIV
transmission by distributing basic information on HIV/AIDS and the universal
values of solidarity, equity, responsibility, and respect. Its goals are to:
Increase knowledge about HIV/AIDS to encourage
preventative behaviors, such as regular HIV testing, and to promote the
rights of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)
Improve the attention to and care of PLWHA in healthcare
centers through medical, psychological, and juridical support
Stimulate the integration of other institutions in
providing social responses to HIV/AIDS and encourage individuals, civil
society, and the state to take on the responsibility of HIV/AIDS awareness
and prevention
Advocate for access to appropriate, respectful, and
confidential medical attention for those living with HIV/AIDS
Promote gender equality as vital to prevention
Encourage the prevention of HIV transmission through
open communication between partners, postponement of sexual relations,
mutual fidelity, and the correct use of condoms
Research related social, political, economic, and
cultural issues that affect the local population
Tinku’s mission is to improve the quality
of life of economically and socially vulnerable women, children, and youth. It
aims to achieve this goal through helping women develop microenterprises,
offering childcare services, and providing women and children with formal and
informal education opportunities. Its goals are to:
Offer working women legal, psychological, and
healthcare services
Provide workshops for mothers on children’s
well-being, women’s and children’s rights, and economic capacity building
Help women generate income by providing them
with training and technical skills in microenterprise development
Provide working women’s children with daycare,
medical services, and nutritional support
Offer educational and extracurricular support for
children
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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 SacabambaMunicipalities. 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
