Category Archives: General news

Presentation from QBLUK

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

This is a wonderfully produced presentation from QBLUK. You can download it from this link (44 MB). It shows some wonderful pictures of QBL projects and the Bolivian people and countryside. Our presentations include information about QBL, Bolivia and our work in … Continue reading →

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Article in The Western Friend: “A Quaker Response to Poverty in the Bolivian Andes”

Posted on June 30, 2011 by

Reaching Ancoma isn’t easy. It involves driving long hours from Lake Titicaca over a 14,000 feet pass, plunging down into a deep valley and then climbing a 15,000 feet pass – all on dirt roads. Ancoma can only be reached … Continue reading →

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April 5, 2011 e-newsletter

Posted on April 6, 2011 by

QBL has a new e-newsletter carrier, mailchimp.com.  The most recent e-newsletter is the April 5 version.  There is also an archive of that and earlier e-newsletters. You can join our mailing list to get future editions. Share

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Board Member Pat Close continues her trip, sending 23 photos

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

Hi Everyone Yesterday we visited our trout and camelid projects. They are 14,500 feet above sea level. Little grows there. I can see the tremendous positive impact our projects have made on the communities since I visited the projects at … Continue reading →

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April ’11. US board member Pat Close visits Hucuri Milluni and Calla Arriba.

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

Board member Pat Close lives in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is currently on her third trip to Bolivia visiting our project sites. We thought you’d like to see this report that she emailed us from La Paz. We just had a … Continue reading →

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March 12, 2011 E-Newsletter

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

The most recent E-Newsletter from QBL is available here. You can subscribe to get these newsletters, here. Share

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Building Bridges and Sustaining Livelihoods

Posted on September 23, 2010 by

The current edition of Quaker News – a quarterly update on Quaker work in the care of Britain Yearly Meeting – carries a fine two-page article about QBL, introduced as follows: The Sustainability and Peace programme is developing fast and … Continue reading →

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Join our Facebook Network

Posted on September 13, 2010 by

If you are a Facebook user we’d like to invite you to become a ‘friend’ of our QBL page. You’ll be able to see our super photo albums, get up to date news of the projects and see the comments … Continue reading →

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Report on Visit to Bolivia by US and UK Boards

Posted on December 17, 2009 by

In the Spring of 2009, members of the QBL-US and QBL-UK boards, and the US and UK Coordinators, visited Bolivia. The visit was, in broad terms, carried out to reasonably assure that funds being provided by the US and UK … Continue reading →

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