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how we are meeting needs in bolivia:
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Health Programs
Problem: Lack of family health education, specifically child health in communities.
Solution: A health program will detect and manage malnutrition, diarrhea and preventable illnesses, and local health-care representatives will be educated and trained. This program benefits about 20, 621 people in 22 different communities. |
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Agricultural Programs
Problem: Agricultural and livestock practices, production and marketing are very poor, contributing to some of the poorest conditions in all of Bolivia.
Solution: Plans include working in 57 communities to help about 3,150 people increase agriculture productivity, total production, advantageous "productive chain" agreements and capitalization. |
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Water and Sanitation Development
Problem: Very little good drinking water is available, and general sanitation conditions for families are poor.
Solution: Organizing community leaders into water committees; building community and household water systems, showers and household bathrooms; and installing household water systems, family latrines, communal solar showers and family showers in communities that have electricity. Six communities and about 3,700 persons will benefit from this program in Cochabamba and Sucre. |
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Natural Resource Management
Problem: Natural resources are not well managed in one of the poorest areas of the country that lacks even basic infrastructure, education and health care.
Solution: A three-pronged strategy to help 146 communities includes environmental education, creating community-managed conservation areas on public lands, and improving soil and water conservation on private lands. |
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Child Development Program
Problem: Families need counseling and medical services, and children need training in leadership skills.
Solution: 1,883 sponsored children in 26 communities are receiving biblically based parental counseling, medical checkups and school supplies. They are also learning new skills at "Child Coalitions." |
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