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Report from the Sojata water project
Project Coordinator Robert Vincent reports on how our La Paz team work with the communities setting up a project and allocating responsibilities, Robert shows how we operate in real partnership with community members. QBL supporters know that their donations are used to ensure long term successful projects. Continue reading
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Vilaque water project has been accepted for Global Giving
Global Giving is a respected site that puts projects from all over the world on its website and manages donations from all over the world in support of those projects. QBL was accepted earlier for its Jananqui project (see it … Continue reading
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Report on the Condoroca Project
The project sought to provide 47 families with access to clean water in the village of Putini Condoroca. This report includes information from the final report, photos, and observations of our Project Coordinator, Robert Vincent, during his May 2011 visit. Continue reading
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Robert visits the Quilloma project
This report comes from Robert Vincent, our Projects Coordinator. He recently visited the Community of Quilloma to look at their hand pumps and water systems. Continue reading
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Article in The Western Friend: “A Quaker Response to Poverty in the Bolivian Andes”
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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Visit to Janko Marca Sirpa
[Note from the webmaster: Robert Vincent is the Project Coordinator for QBL-US.] I returned from Bolivia a few weeks ago and wanted to share about the progress of our water project in Janko Marca Sirpa. We have been advertising it as … Continue reading
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Global Giving representative visits QBL in Bolivia – her report
Global Giving Latin America representative Clarissa Driban was in La Paz in May and met with some of the Janko Marca Sirpa community who were in the city. She reported – “A huge thank you to Lourdes (the head of … Continue reading
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Jankoaqui Water Project on GlobalGiving.Org
QBL was recently admitted into the Global Giving catalog. Our current campaign is to fund the Jankoaqui water project that was recently approved. If we can get 50 donors and $4000 by April 30th, we will get a permanent position … Continue reading
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April ’11. US board member Pat Close visits Hucuri Milluni and Calla Arriba.
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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Almost certainly you’ve never heard of Quilloma. It’s a village of 43 families on the icy cold Altiplano three hours from La Paz, the capital. Houses are mud brick with straw roofs. This is a poor community in the poorest … Continue reading
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