See the Individual
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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 ...
Religious Freedom and Human Trafficking in Bolivia
Steve Plenert is the co-representative for MCC Bolivia.
Part of what makes MCC work fascinating is that as a foreign NGO work we are to tread carefully around “politics” but are called to engage with social ...
Pushing Past the Barriers
Rebekah Nimtz is an MCC Service Worker in the cross-roads, bread-basket city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. Photo: Salome Flores Ubaldez getting a tire on her wheelchair replaced, Potosí's mining slag piles visible in...
Breaking the Silence: Addressing Gender-based and Sexual Violence in Bolivia
Rebekah Nimtz is an MCC Service Worker in the cross-roads, bread-basket city of Cochabamba, Bolivia.
*This article deals with a difficult subject matter and contains examples of violence. *
I noticed whil...