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On November 6, 2006 Nicola Pauli started her job as the local coordinator. Nicola will head various initiatives, organizational news and will head the project together with Osvaldo Castro, the administrative head and Gisela Delgadillo, the head of education.

Together with a series of banks, brokers and fund managers, Markus Koch founded the new German charitable organization Boersianer Handeln. Boersianer Handeln will operate under similar concepts as we do, showing that very personal help can be very efficient and rewarding to the people

We developed the concept of Ushpa-Ushpa 2011 which lays out further development of the project. The idea is that we add a primary and secondary school, facilities for adult education, a micro enterprise development program, and much more. Our goal is to help the village in a more inte

Tantakuna, the mothers group had its first meeting. Itzi, a volunteer from Spain created that the group that helps the mothers of Ushpa-Ushpa to find a place to discuss, exchange information and ultimately find work. As a first project, Tantakuna started a bakery which sells bread to

On May 19th we inaugurated the building extension. It contains the renovated health care centre, two classrooms, shower facilities, a new 18,000 liter (4,300 gallons) water tank and a new system for waste water treatment. The healthcare station has a dental office, a doctor’s ro

The first year of operations ended with a big party. All groups contributed to a great event. Sister Stephanie participated in that event.

The work on the expansion building has started. We will have an additional four rooms, and a shower facility. This new part will integrate itself in the existing construction and will have two floors. We plan to host the first year of the primary school there. Also, since we want to e

The number of children grew to 100 and we have a total of 21 employees. This means we have reached the capacity. We have split the children into four groups, according to their age. We organize regular meetings for the parents for educational reasons as well as a parents’ forum

On March 11th, the children of the Klenze School in Munich organized their spring celebration as a fundraiser for the daycare. The whole day was dedicated to Bolivia and the children of Ushpa-Ushpa.