WORK EXPERIENCE FOR VOLUNTEERS FROM EUROPE

- Bolivia and its differences:in the infrastructure and the social classes. 
- Bolivia and the concentration in the big cities with its negative affects on the rural communities. 
- Bolivia and the lack of integration of the Indigenous Population (60 % of the inhabitants; but split in different groups, languages and culture) and the little farmers after the feudal Revolution in the fifties and sixties.      
 
OBJECTIVES
In direct cooperation with communities, "El Villar" and “Alcalá”  (south-east of  Sucre) to support the authorities of the Village, Hospital, School, Kindergarten etc. in their projects and works to offer better services for the inhabitants of this big area. (6000 people, 1000 km2)   

 
As volunteers:  
Youth of the world between 18 and 30 years of age with the spirit and motivation to come to a country in development and to help with social work in practice  -  and during this exchange to learn and appreciate the different culture,  classes and social structure as well as to get some or improve the knowledge of the Spanish language. 
 

TYPE OF SOCIAL WORK 
1. In the regional Hospital of “Alcalá”:   support services in the Pharmacy, in the Laboratory and to accompany the Doctors in theirs visits to the villagers. 
2. Kindergarten, Basic and Secondary School of “El Villar” and “Alcalá”:  Assistence in clases and     Work in finishing the infrastructure of a new building, to create a library, a room of games and an infantile park. 
3. Youth leadership:  Activities for the children of the village, especially in the boarding school with rural children, in support in their moral, spiritual and cultural formation with works in art and music. 
4. Environment: With practical norms, with classification and treatment of garbage, care of the river. 
5. Experience of the rural life in the communities of Bolivia: The practice in the agriculture, in an experimental vegetable garden: experience in the traditional techniques in traditional. Or to increase the productivity with solar and protective carps. 
6. Forestation and Reforestation   - Control of earth erosion, construction of walls for protection. 
7. Analysis for a tourist development plan in the region that will be a new source of employment.
8. Small censuses in the village to learn more about their problems and desires.