On Saturday, September 3rd our counterpart organization Mano a Mano Aviation loaded our Cessna Caravan with 2,000 pounds of food supplies for transport to Oromomo, a small community in the Beni department. On the way back to Cochabamaba we transported a group of...
Like ants crawling across the horizon, Nuevo Mundo machines move along the emerging road, meter by meter, each attending to its own task. During the past month, these machines hauled thousands of truckloads of dirt excavated while dredging the Laguna Sulti Reservoir...
In mid-August, 13 students and 3 teachers from Universidad “Siglo XX” traveled from Caripuyo, Potosí to Mano a Mano’s Center for Ecological Agriculture (a 5.5 hour drive) for a 5-day workshop on organic agriculture. Caripuyo is a small community of...
On Saturday, August 27th a group of medical professionals arrived at the Cochabamba airport for a 6:30am flight to Rurrenabaque for a Mano a Mano weekend health clinic (jornada) in the community of San Borja. We had planned to travel there in July, but had to...
On a chilly September morning, Mano a Mano Nuevo Mundo staff and 20 leaders from communities that surround Laguna Sulti boarded the municipality’s bus, ready to embark on a trip they had been planning for months. The group included Remberto Gonzales, president of the...