Give the Gift of Education to Bolivian Girls

PROJECT NEWS

This has been a super two months for CONGRATULATIONS!!  Elizabeth finished her studies in Gastronomy, Ivett successfully completed her final defense of her thesis in Biochemistry and Pharmacy, and Pilar graduated from the UMSA as an Engineer in Industrial Chemistry!!!! 

Cesar at the home for the elderly.   Anel bathing and dressing homeless child.

And September was volunteer month for the students at Helping Hands. We invite you to check out our album “Voluntary Work!”   You will be surprised to see the many ways our students helped others including haircuts, donations of blood, visiting the elderly and the sick, collecting bottle caps for the children’s cancer campaign and much more. Don’t miss this album.  We are proud of our students!!

HOW YOU CAN HELP FOR 2018-2019

Thanks to our donors and to GlobalGiving, 31 of our girls have now been supported for 2018.  However, 24 of these girls will be continuing with Helping Hands for 2019 and new girls will begin.  Many of our sponsors and contributors have asked how they could donate monthly.  With GlobalGiving it’s easy!  From Nov. 27 to Dec. 31 2018 recurring monthly donations will be matched by GlobalGiving on the first donation.  If you would like to contribute monthly to Helping Hands, please click here.   Or check out our Dental Health micro project for our younger students. 

OTHER NEWS AND ACTIVITIES:

                 Leidy,                  Esther,             Salome   and  Cesar.

• Thank you, PROGEST, for making it possible for 46 of our students to take part in “Caminando por La Vida” to raise funds for poor children with cancer.
• Pedro  invited us to his organic farm in Achocalla to hear a talk on “Masculinity, Machismo and the Patriarchy”.  Lots of food for thought. 
• Alicia,one of our students who finished her studies in Health Statistics in 2009 now works for a big hospital here in La Paz, and she continues to study.  Here she shows her certificate for studies in Aymara, a local native language.

THANK YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH FOR MAKING EDUCATION POSSIBLE FOR SO MANY OF OUR YOUTH.

Greetings from La Paz.

We thank you all once again so very much for the support for our 31 girls. Three of our post-secondary girls finish their studies now in 2018, but the rest will continue with Helping Hands in 2019.  Of our high school girls, 4 will graduate this year and you will see their graduation photos in our January newsletter.  Some of these four will continue with Helping Hands in 2019 in post-secondary studies and, of course, some new girls will join us in January as well.

The students have made Christmas cards for their supporters, and if you would like to receive a Christmas card from one of the girls, please write to   helpinghands.lapaz@gmail.com 

Thank you again so very much, 

Linda

Today October 2 we reached the $ 10,000 goal.  All 31 girls will be sponsored and a report will be forthcoming. 

This has been possible only with your support. More and more we are convinced that access to education is one of the keys to breaking the cycle of poverty for our youth. We hope you will be following our reports on the different students as they progress with their studies and begin their professional lives.

THANKS AGAIN FOR BEING PART OF DREAMS COME TRUE.

We invite you to visit our Facebook page to meet our students and keep up with their activities. https://www.facebook.com/HHPBolivia/

THANK YOU FOR THE WONDERFUL RESPONSE!!

On behalf of the Helping Hands team, I wish to thank all of our friends and supporters for making it possible for us to earn a permanent place on GlobalGiving. This has been a wonderful experience, and it has been heartwarming for us to have so much support from you all.  

Because we were so successful, we were allowed to raise our fundraising goal to $US 10,000 in order to fund 4 more girls, and we are just about there, with only $US 541 to go. https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/education-for-at-risk-bolivian-girls/

As soon as our IT man returns from his maternity leave later this week, we will be sending out a report on the 31 girls.

THANKS AGAIN FOR BEING PART OF DREAMS COME TRUE.

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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

We thank all of our friends and supporters so very much for making this new venture on GlobalGiving a success for Helping Hands.  As we write this newsletter we now have 39 donors of the 40 required for a permanent spot on GlobalGiving and $US 4433 of the $US 5000 needed for the permanent spot.  We think that we might even reach our project goal of $US 7500 for the 27 girls. 

Thank you all for giving a helping hand and for giving us HOPE!!

Project news:

• CONGRATULATIONS to Milta who graduated as an Agronomical Engineer from the Universidad Catolica Boliviana in August this year. The best of luck to you Milta and your bee keeping project.

 ACTIVITIES OF THE MONTH

• During the school mid-year vacation the younger children had an excursion to the Museum of Natural History to see the DINOSAURS!! A fun day!
• And the high school students took a trip to the Tiawanaku Museum and the Planetarium and  then enjoyed pizza for lunch. 
• At our July meeting everyone learned how to write better letters. Thanks Vania, a university professor, for giving us a hand. 
• Welcome to Elena from Spain, and thank you so much for donating clothes and other items for our students. 
• The firemen, or BOMBEROS in La Paz, came to give us advice on safety with fire.  It was very interesting for the students and we learned so much, especially about fire extinguishers. 
• Several of our students took advantage of our outing to the annual Book Fair in La Paz.  This year there were many special activities for the children. 
• Lots of students and their families found special treasures with our used clothing before the August meeting. 

THANK YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH FOR MAKING EDUCATION POSSIBLE FOR SO MANY OF OUR YOUTH.