by Ximena Murillo | Dec 10, 2016 | FROM QBL-USA
By Gladys Dunlop Although Ed and I are new to the QBL board this year, our interest in Bolivia goes back more than a decade. In 2005, our daughter was a senior at Westtown School and spent three weeks in La Paz teaching English in a Quaker school for her senior...
by Ximena Murillo | Dec 10, 2016 | FROM QBL-BOL
QBL is happy to report on current work as a Quaker response to poverty amongst the Aymara people in the Altiplano region. In April, there was a historic first-time meeting in La Paz of the three QBL board clerks—from the boards of Bolivia (FQBL), the United Kingdom...
by Ximena Murillo | Dec 10, 2016 | FROM QBL-USA
By John Scardina I recently attended the Summer Sessions of New York Yearly Meeting at the Silver Bay YMCA Center on Lake George, NY. We had a QBL display table, and QBL interest group, and a meeting with the staff of Bolivia Quaker Education Fund (BQEF) to see how we...
by Ximena Murillo | Dec 10, 2016 | FROM QBL-USA
By Rob Rogers I am one of the most recent, if not the newest, additions to the QBL-USA Board. Joining in June my experience has been limited to date, but already the experience is proving to be satisfying. Nonprofit work has been a core part of my life for many years,...
by Ximena Murillo | Dec 9, 2016 | General news