Bolivia – Page 2

That Man Is You: Confronting Racism in Bolivia

June 10, 2020

Advocacy, Bolivia, Peace and Non-Violence

This morning was my day to go shopping, and on the way home a random man I passed on the street stopped me and said, "The only good thing about this virus is that a lot of collas are going to die." In Boliv...

Lessons in Care and Resilience, from Our Homes to Yours

May 8, 2020

Advocacy, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Partner Organization, SALT/YAMEN/IVEP, SEED, World

Home. What is the meaning of home? The planet earth is our home. As long as we live on this earth, we can surely call anywhere home because home is not about being all easy, relaxed and comfortable. Home is an...

COVID-19: An Opportunity to Rediscover Ourselves

March 31, 2020

Advocacy, Bolivia, Climate Change

In 2019 climate change caused enormous damage to the health, nutrition, and homes of millions of people and put marine life and other ecosystems at risk; concentrations of greenhouse gases like CO2, methane and...

See the Individual

January 7, 2020

Advocacy, Bolivia

Depositing myself (or rather being deposited by God's will) in Bolivia has certainly been interesting. It has been a place to use the knowledge I acquired in university. It's been a place to make crazy leaps ...

Connection as Sustainability

November 28, 2019

Advocacy, Bolivia, Partner Organization

My coworker told me a story recently of schoolchildren in France who, when asked to draw a picture of chicken, drew pictures of cooked chickens like you would find in your local grocery store or market. Shocked...

A Life in Service of Others

December 20, 2018

Advocacy, Bolivia, Rural Justice, SEED

Maggie Mulhern, from Louisville, Colorado and the First Presbyterian Church in Boulder, Colorado, served in Oruro, Bolivia with the Center of Ecology and Andean Peoples (CEPA) as part of the Seed II program wit...

Abel Machaca: To be in the truth

November 28, 2018

Advocacy, Bolivia, Climate Change, Mining Justice, Rural Justice

In the coming months, MCC LACA is republishing stories from the Life Stories project produced by seeders from the MCC Bolivia program. The Life Stories project is an attempt to show how the reflective peacebuil...

Don’t Ever Give Up!

October 30, 2018

Advocacy, Bolivia, SEED

In the coming months, MCC LACA is republishing stories from the Life Stories project produced by seeders from the MCC Bolivia program. The Life Stories project is an attempt to show how the reflective peacebuil...

Victoria Mamani, Mother of Four

October 4, 2018

Advocacy, Bolivia, Partner Organization, Rural Justice, SEED

In the coming months, MCC LACA is republishing stories from the Life Stories project produced by seeders from the MCC Bolivia program. The Life Stories project is an attempt to show how the reflective peacebuil...

Highland Abundance with a Glass of Tea

February 14, 2018

Advocacy, Bolivia, Rural Justice

Rebekah Nimtz is an MCC Service Worker in the cross-roads, bread-basket city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. On just another day in Bolivia I find myself flying around mountainous curves in a shared minivan taxi on ...

The Food We Share

“Imagino un mundo … donde mujeres y [niñas] podamos caminar en las calles, trabajar, y convivir … sin miedo” (part 3)

“Yo quisiera que termine toda esa violencia” El Día de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer (part 2)

Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia Contra la Mujer (parte 1)

That Man Is You: Confronting Racism in Bolivia

Lessons in Care and Resilience, from Our Homes to Yours

COVID-19: An Opportunity to Rediscover Ourselves

See the Individual

Connection as Sustainability

A Life in Service of Others

Abel Machaca: To be in the truth

Don’t Ever Give Up!

Victoria Mamani, Mother of Four

Highland Abundance with a Glass of Tea

Cuba: A case study on sanctions

A Call for Hope and Continued Peacebuilding from Colombia

A Transformative Agenda on Migration