80,000 school children in Bolivia will be trained in simple, affordable techniques to sustainably improve their health. Techniques include hand washing and solar water purification (SODIS).

The Kaya Center provides education, counseling, family support, and life skills training to children on the streets in La Paz, Bolivia, giving them a chance to reinvent their futures.

The Smiles Forever Dental Hygiene School in Cochabamba, Bolivia provides vocational training for homeless, indigenous women as they and the faculty provide free dental care to 6,500 homeless a year. These dental hygienist trainees now have a community service project in the remote village of Morochata, where recently 400 children received preventative fluoride care. Some children required critical care, including 77 extractions and medication from overseeing dentists from Bolivian & U.S.

Experience shows that low-income families have a large unmet need for improved water and saniation services wich is not covered by the commercial sector. This project is a unique combination of training, customized advisory services and micro-credit in order to facilitate poor families access to improved water and sanitation services. The micro-credit can be offered to very attractive conditions because a fund is being created to cover for eventual defaults (which are in the range of 2-3%).

This project will develop and test an indicator, developed in partnership with InnoCentive, to support local health workers promote Solar Water Disinfection (SODIS), a low-cost method to purify drinking water. SODIS has been shown to be an effective and adequate intervention to prevent waterborne diseases like diarrhea, cholera and dysentery. With the support of the low-cost indicator, the method can be promoted even more effectively.

This project will provide a water system to the community of Vilaque, which currently lacks access to clean water. It is located in the Pacajes province, in the municipality of Santiago de Callapa, an area suffering from some of the highest poverty rates in South America. In areas where water is available, it is often salty. This project will improve the health of 38 families where the most frequent illnesses in children are diarrhea and respiratory infections.

Bolivia is South America's poorest country. Hunger haunts poor rural villages, with worsening situations as climatic fluctuations become more severe. These are primarily indigenous communities and agriculturally-based. Younger adults are increasingly migrating to the cities, leaving older people and children behind. This project will combine ancestral and scientific knowledge about water, farming and weather to ensure sustainable food security for local older people and their families.

100 children at extreme high risk of entering street life in La Paz, Bolivia will be given shelter, education, counseling, school support, food and care at a theraputic community program. Kaya has served street children for over 10 years. Kaya is working to prevent the next generation of street children. These children, based on their current situations and family histories, are highly likely to enter street life and or prostitution. Kaya is giving these children hope for a better future.

Through street outreach and community-based prevention, Kaya Children International is working directly with boys and girls who are starting to explore street life. Simple interventions, built on relationships, have the power to redirect children to healthy alternatives and a bright, happy and productive future.