Bolivia - Training the women of the future

09 May 2016

(ANS - El Alto) - Last March the Day of the Bolivian Woman was celebrated. However, "violence against women is on the increase, despite government laws," wrote the magazine datos-bo. What can be done in the face of violence and contempt for women is the question that the experts are asking. The answer lies in empowering women so that they are "recognized as makers of history, and so that they may be on an equal footing with men, and that there be no differences in society and in their personal development". For several years there has been a project in El Alto called "Strengthening the role of women through literacy, training and specialized qualifications", funded by the Extremadura Agency for Cooperation Development (AEXCID)

The project is led by the Machaqa Amawta" Foundation, an organization that works locally with the Spanish Salesian NGO Solidaridad Don Bosco and that it is committed to promoting educational, productive and organizational processes and research that improves the quality of lives of indigenous peoples, peasants and people in socio-economically disadvantaged conditions.

The headquarters of the project is in El Alto, Bolivia, where there are many rural women living with limited economic resources. Thanks to this project training activities are currently in full swing for the first classes of students, nearly 300 women who are learning or improving their technical and production skills in cutting and packaging, hand stitching, food marketing and the production of jewellery. They are the first class to receive training.

All the activities and the project workers have been very well received and there is great interest among the students. The project will continue until the end of May 2016 and in the meantime the Machaqa Amawta Foundation continues its support for the most disadvantaged women, as well as other development projects in Bolivia.

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