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Our Projects
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To date we have supported many initiatives and
raised over £100,000 through our fund raising events. Most
of the projects we have or are currently supporting are in the
areas of health care and education of children, women, and the
elderly living in the slums in main cities or in remote rural
areas, including the Amazon. The majority of these projects have
been sponsored by Friends of Bolivia for several years.
Below is a brief list of some of current and past projects supported
by Friends of Bolivia:
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Project: Fundacion
Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN)
Location: Amazon Basin Go to
Map
Beneficiary: Indigenous communities at the Noel Kempf Mercado
National Park
Amount: US$950 per calendar year
Description: Finance on an ongoing basis medical tools,
medication and transportation to remote areas of volunteer doctors
providing dental and medical care for approximate 300 indigenous
people located in the Amazonian areas of the Paragua and Itenez
rivers.
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Project: Hogar
de Ancianos de Trinidad
Location: Beni Go to Map
Beneficiary: Home for the Elderly
Description: Provided funds to purchase medicines for elderly
people. The hospice is run by religious Sisters and volunteers
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Project: Centro de Rehabilitacion
Integral Nutricional (CRIN) of the Hospital Materno Infantil
Location: Cochabamba Go to Map
Beneficiary: Young children from rural areas in need of treatment
for severe malnutrition
Description: Provide ongoing financial support for medical
treatment to severely undernourished children treated at the Centre
for Nutritional Rehabilitation in one of the Cochabamba's main hospitals
for children.
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Project: Educational
Centre Maria Immaculada
Location: El Alto, Huarina, Achacachi and Puerto Acosta
Go to Map
Beneficiary: 100 children in the City of El Alto
Description: Provide ongoing financial support for food
and medical care to assist approximately 400 children in four
day-care centres administered by religious Sisters
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Project: Hospital
de Ninho de La Paz
Location: La Paz Go to Map
Beneficiary: Sick children brought from all over the country
Description: Provide financial assistance to an established
charitable organization in La Paz. The funds are used to assist
inpatients and outpatients at the Children's Hospital of La Paz,
including paying for surgical procedures and medication
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Project: Hogar La
Sagrada Familia
Location: Oruro Go to Map
Beneficiary: Home for the Elderly
Description: Provided funds to purchase medicines and food
for elderly people. The hospice is run by religious Sisters
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Project: Centro de
Educacion de Adultos por Medios de Comunicacion Social, CEAMCOS
Location: Potosi Go to Map
Beneficiary: Group of female peasants located in rural
areas of Potosi
Description: Pay annual salary and expenses of a vocational
teacher . This person provides training to rural women in various
occupations for the improvement of the community's basic sanitary
and educational standards. These women in turn become vocational
teachers themselves and use the knowledge to train others in the
community. The courses are taught in Quechua.
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Project: Plan 3000
Location: Santa Cruz de la Sierra Go
to Map
Beneficiary: Poor children in the slums of Santa Cruz
Description: Provide toys and clothing on a regular basis.
Purchased equipment including an oven
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Project: Instituto
Psicopedagogico Ciudad Joven "San Juan de Dios"
Location: Sucre Go to Map
Beneficiary: Children and teenagers in rehabilitation from
drug addiction or with mental deficiencies and psychological problems
Description: Provide financial assistance to pay for medical
care, rehabilitation, medicines, food and clothing to 271 children
and teenagers
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Project: Amigos de
Ninhos Excepcionales
Location: Tarija Go to Map
Beneficiary: Mentally and physically disabled children
Description: Financed 72 surgical interventions, including
eyes, hare lip, cleft palate, burns, leg traumas, sindactilia
and polidactilia; provided 406 children with physical and vocational
rehabilitation and special education programs for about 954 handicap
children
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Special Projects
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Current Special Projects:
Friends of Bolivia has taken an interest in this
very important project and would like to invite you to sponsor
it with us. At present we are seeking funds to finance the purchase
of neonatal equipment for the Hospital General San Juan de Dios
in Oruro
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Project: Neonatal
Equipment for the Paediatric Unit of the Hospital General San
Juan de Dios in Oruro
Location: Oruro Go to Map
Beneficiary: Paediatric unit
Amount: US$ 30,000 (thirty thousand US
Dollars)
Objective: Replace and expand neonatal
equipment for the paediatric unit of the Hospital General San
Juan de Dios in Oruro
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Description:
The Hospital General San Juan de Dios is a public hospital located
in Oruro, one of Bolivia's poorest departments. As with most public
hospitals in Bolivia today, the HGSJD lacks sufficient public
support for financing its most basic needs, let alone the renewal
of medical equipment.
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The paediatric unit has the physical capacity to
care for only 20 new-born babies. The medical staff is composed
of: one paediatrician, four certified nurses, and three assistants.
At present the paediatric unit is having difficulties maintaining
the quality of medical care provided to new-born babies due in
part to the obsolescence of its neonatal equipment. As described
by Dr. Miguel Gonzales Yucra, Director of HGSJD: "the neonatal
equipment is very obsolete and has been used for way over 15 years".
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Replacing and expanding the neonatal equipment
with reliable and up-to-date equipment will help to improve the
quality of care provided to new-born babies; it will reduce the
rate of early neonatal mortality; and it will increase the paediatric
unit's capacity for caring for more in-patients and out-patients.
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Below is a list of neonatal equipment and its estimated
cost in US$, as described by the pediatric unit of HGSJD:
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Quantity
in Units
10
02
03
06
04
05
02
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Description
Incubators Standard
Neonatal respirators servo Phototherapy equipment
Cefalic Hood
Cardiac monitor
Antea monitor
Incubator (transport)
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Unit Price
1,250
3,000
500
20
600
1,000
1,350
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Total Price
12,500
6,000
1,500
120
5,000
2,680
2,400
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US$30,200
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Prior Special Projects
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Project: Flood Appeal
Location: La Paz Go to Map
Beneficiary: Victims of flood in La Paz (March 2002)
Agency: N/A
Amount: N/A
Description: N/A
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Project: Bolivian
Earthquake Appeal.
Location: Cochabamba. Go to
Map
Beneficiary: Victims of the earthquake in the rural community
of Montecillos.
Agency: CEDEAGRO (Centre of Agricultural Development).
Amount: US$9,600 (nine thousand six hundred US dollars).
Description: financed the construction of 15 new homes
for peasants living in the Montecillo's community whose homes
were totally destroyed by an earthquake in 1998.
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