Bolivia – MCC LACA

Noemy Portillo Condori: Dedication, Discipline, Commitment, and Perseverance

March 7, 2023

The Interdisciplinary Integral Development Program (PRODII) commemorates Women's Day as a day in which the spaces of intervention where women have a voice continue to increase. Women full of tenacity and s...

Five women inspiring me in Bolivia

March 7, 2023

Advocacy, Boliva, Bolivia, Advocacy, Peace and Non-Violence, Peace and Non-Violence

It’s not hard to find women in Bolivia that inspire me and who are inspiring others in their community. MCC is brimming with partners around the world who put women to the forefront and create spaces for women...

First person: Gabriel Acarapi Chuca

November 8, 2022

Advocacy, Bolivia, Climate Change, Rural Justice

I grew up in a community where my grandfather was a farmer and, like most of us here, we belong to an Indigenous community. We’ve been brought up knowing that we need to wake up early and help on the farm and ...

Walking Together: Notes from MCC LACA’s 2022 Indigenous Peoples Encounter

October 10, 2022

Advocacy, Bolivia, Climate Change, Guatemala, Mexico, Migration, Mining Justice, Partner Organization, Peace and Non-Violence, Rural Justice, Urban Peacebuilding

In 1491, the territory that we now call the Americas was full of communities of many colours and sounds, of flourishing art, with sophisticated and diverse food production and complex political systems and all...

On shaky ground: How climate change is making life more complex for rural farmers in Bolivia

September 5, 2022

Advocacy, Bolivia, Climate Change

After our second visit of the day, we took a moment to sit, eat and chat more with members of the Chucarasi community in Norte de Potosí (North of Potosí), Bolivia. After we finished a full meal of freshly gro...

Accompanying Low German Mennonites at MCC Bolivia’s Centro Menno

December 10, 2021

Advocacy, Bolivia, Partner Organization

People from the Low German Mennonite colonies may come into Centro Menno in Santa Cruz, Bolivia for a variety of reasons. While store men and taxi drivers picking up a bulk subscription of the Mennonitische Po...

That Man Is You: Confronting Racism in Bolivia

June 10, 2020

Advocacy, Bolivia, Peace and Non-Violence

This morning was my day to go shopping, and on the way home a random man I passed on the street stopped me and said, "The only good thing about this virus is that a lot of collas are going to die." In Boliv...

Lessons in Care and Resilience, from Our Homes to Yours

May 8, 2020

Advocacy, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Partner Organization, SALT/YAMEN/IVEP, SEED, World

Home. What is the meaning of home? The planet earth is our home. As long as we live on this earth, we can surely call anywhere home because home is not about being all easy, relaxed and comfortable. Home is an...

COVID-19: An Opportunity to Rediscover Ourselves

March 31, 2020

Advocacy, Bolivia, Climate Change

In 2019 climate change caused enormous damage to the health, nutrition, and homes of millions of people and put marine life and other ecosystems at risk; concentrations of greenhouse gases like CO2, methane and...

See the Individual

January 7, 2020

Advocacy, Bolivia

Depositing myself (or rather being deposited by God's will) in Bolivia has certainly been interesting. It has been a place to use the knowledge I acquired in university. It's been a place to make crazy leaps ...

The Food We Share

Cuba: A case study on sanctions

Migration and misinformation

Moving Forward in the Midst of Sorrow