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Solving the Unsolvable

This month’s update from Bolivia follows on the heels of a previous update, and is a textbook example of the follow through that villages learn when they partner with CHOICE. In the community of Jankocala, maintaining [...]

Replacing Cow Dung with Solar Energy!

Imagine it is time to cook a meal for your family and you don’t have a stove, oven, or even a microwave. What you do have is a small, smoky fire pit in your house, fueled [...]

Because Water Is Life

Today, 1.1 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water. 1.1 Billion! It is a staggering and sobering number but thanks to your support this number is getting smaller. Recently the small village of [...]

Bolivia: The New Center of Fashion?

In Bolivia, the people of Hichuraya and Muramaya are proving that they can lift themselves out of poverty with their own two hands. A few weeks ago, we bragged about their new skills of dying wool [...]

Digging for their lives.

Those of you who have been to the Altiplano region in Bolivia know what a difficult task it is to dig miles of trenches in the rocky Bolivian soil for a water system. It is slow, [...]

What does it take to get water to a small village in Bolivia?

With shovels in hand, we left the village of Huancuyo, Bolivia early in the morning and headed up the mountains. Three miles and two hours later, into the thinning air, we reached our destination – the [...]

Weaving a Way out of Poverty

As you warm yourself this winter with shawls, scarves and blankets, consider for a moment where they may have come from. Weaving beautiful, handcrafted items has become a heart-warming solution to a big problem in Muramaya, [...]

The Best Lettuce in Town!

At 13,000 ft. elevation, almost nothing grows in the Altipalno of Bolivia. Local diet is limited to a variety of potatoes, quinoa and a few other high-altitude grains. Over the years the CHOICE team has been [...]

Then and Now: Seeing Real Change

by Ty Robertson I first heard about the work of CHOICE Humanitarian in 2008 during a graduate course on economic development at the University of Utah. A short time later, my wife and I had the [...]

Chris Johnson: Notes from the field: Bolivia, 2010

Since the tragedy of August, 2008, I have had little opportunity to travel to our field sites. Not being on the ground for over 18 months, I was very excited to reconnect with Willy, Maxima, Felix [...]

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