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Crisis & Disaster Response

Supporting Bolivian Families During the Pandemic

Yhonny, a taxi driver in La Paz, is the sole wage earner in his family of eight. His wife stays at home to take care of their disabled son. Unable to work since the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Yhonny has been encouraging his family to ration their use of essential items, including food,…

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Our Ministry

Apprentice Shares God’s Love Among Isolated Communities in Bolivia

APPLY NOW FOR OUR SUMMER 2022 OPENINGS When COVID-19 shutdowns halted the world as we knew it, I had to finish my degree in international relations and economics online. I wondered whether any job was in my near future, let alone the wonderfully meaningful one I found. As an international logistics apprentice in Bolivia, the…

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Animals, Agriculture & Livelihoods

A Bountiful Harvest in Bolivia

The air is dusty and the land looks barren during the final months of the almost nine-month dry season in El Alto, Bolivia. Many of the young city’s nearly 1 million inhabitants have come here from the surrounding countryside in search of a better life. Instead of opportunity, though, many of them have found a…

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Health & Medical Ministries

The Journey to Healing

Maria Nelly can’t remember a time when she didn’t have to summon all her energy just to take a breath. Each beat of the Bolivian girl’s heart was a struggle. With each passing year, the 7-year-old’s health grew worse as she labored to breathe, was constantly tired, and often felt ill. Her family didn’t know…

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Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

Disease Prevention and Clean Water Access Go Hand in Hand

Clean water is essential to good health, as it significantly reduces waterborne illnesses and contributes to the overall health of families. Yet, for many communities throughout the world, clean water has never been easily accessible. Through our Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) project, Samaritan’s Purse is providing sustainable access to clean water for communities, homes,…

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Construction Projects

Strengthening Churches, Shining a Light for Christ

Grace Wright, along with fellow Samaritan’s Purse staff members based in Bolivia, recently visited Pastor Sebastian Quispe Cuti at his church in the remote mountain community of Tahuapalca. They came to encourage him and see firsthand the sanctuary building that was completed around the first of this year with our help. Watch as Grace and…

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Animals, Agriculture & Livelihoods

Greenhouses Help Families Expand Crops, Grow Seeds of Faith

Felix and his wife, Sofia, were used to scraping together a living for their three children from the mountainous fields of Palca, Bolivia, despite harsh rainy seasons and frigid temperatures. The precarious conditions meant experiencing several lean months trying to make ends meet between harvests. When a Samaritan’s Purse agriculture project in the area gave…

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Animals, Agriculture & Livelihoods

Dairy Project Feeds into School Meal Program

When schoolchildren in Chuma, Bolivia, are served yogurt packs for breakfast, they are often made with ingredients from Samaritan’s Purse agricultural projects cultivated in their own community. What’s more, Samaritan’s Purse helped a cooperative of local farmers establish a community production center where they process and package the yogurt. The yogurt making started with our…

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Construction Projects

Brick by Brick

“The people from our community are hungry for the Word of God,” Pastor Eusebio said, standing on the unfinished second floor of his church in El Alto, Bolivia. The city of almost a million people spreads out around him in all directions, full of people he hopes will come to know the saving love of…

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Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

Answered Prayers Poured Out

Alicia enjoyed the sound of water gurgling through the pipe then splashing into the basin as she worked, kneading and rinsing her family’s clothing. The warm Bolivian breeze would finish the laundry later when she hung everything up to dry. In the midst of doing chores, Alicia’s heart was full of gratitude to God. It…

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