Check out a few pictures from this year and what we have been able to do together below (you can also see it on Facebook here).
Mano a Mano’s Office/Warehouse in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Mano a Mano in 2022: Year in Review
2022 in Photos
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- Supplies ready to transport to Oromomo at the Cochabamba airport, September 3rd, 2022.
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- Pamela, one of the 2 physical therapy students that is interning at Mano a Mano, works with 10-year-old Beismar, who is exercising with a standing frame sent from Minnesota.
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- St. Paul volunteers Marian Heinrich, Mary White, Doug Skelton and Barb Benner sort through and organize mountains of donated infant clothing to create layettes for Bolivian newborns. Currently, three groups take on this volunteer project: one which does its work at the Mano a Mano office; another local group that assembles layettes in their homes; and a third that is located in Utah.
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- Dr. Sergio Zegarra (right) providing training during a Mano a Mano Bolivia workshop.
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- Mano a Mano staff and volunteers sort medical supplies sent from Minnesota to organize them for distribution throughout Bolivia at our Cochabamba warehouse.
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- These are the 3 containers that were loaded with supplies and equipment at our Minnesota warehouse over the past week.
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- Dedicating the new clinic in Panama with the community – December 2021.
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- We were happy to be able to have a farewell lunch for our 7 Metro State Social Work interns and St. Kate’s Community Leaders intern from the Fall 2022 semester (and are sad to see them go)!
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- Working on the deep water well in Chaupi Suyu – March 2021.
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- Weekend health clinic in Comunidad Bermeo, August 6-7, 2022.
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- Dr. Jose Velasquez formally turning over the keys during the dedication ceremony with the community of Estano Colorado, March 31, 2022.
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- The Villa Nueva clinic was dedicated on December 6th, 2022.
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- Medical professionals in Rurrenabaque for a weekend health clinic – April 2022.
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- Mano a Mano Nuevo Mundo staff at our El Abra office/warehouse location welding the sifting screen to sort gravel at the Punata Regional Complex.
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- Dedicating the Chirusi Rosario water tower, October 26th, 2022.
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- Mushtaq Saleemi, Midwest regional manager for Helping Hand in Elmhurst IL
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- The 6-story water tank in Chirusi Rosario was dedicated in October.
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- Photo credit: Pollen Midwest.
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- Mobility equipment donated by Mano a Mano during the Islas Malvinas celebration.
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- the mini-kitchen that has been put together as a demonstration at the CEA. The biodigester is producing heat for the burner on which one of the students is boiling a potato-like vegetable. The other shows the teakettle heating. Very creative use of recycled wood, pop bottles and, of course, the biodigestor, and a sink with no plumbing. The students are agronomy interns.
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- After motograder spreads rock, smooth, vibrating roller compacts it every 6” until it’s rock solid.
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- Photo Credit: Pollen Midwest
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- Wirkini Reservoir at overflow level, September 2022.
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- Sludge ponds.
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- An emergency flight to El Alto in 2022.
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- Installing tubing to transport potable water in Chirusi Rosario, November-December 2022.
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- Workshop for parents – August 13th, 2022.
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- A week-long agriculture seminar at the CEA in October 2022.
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- Supplies being inspected by FELCN (La Fuerza Especial de Lucha Contra el Narcotráfico). For every Mano a Mano flight,
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- Description of our US garden.
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- The foundation of Mano a Mano’s new runway at Laguna Sulti.
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- Trucks haul dirt to road and runway surfaces, as other machines spread and compact it.
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- Mano a Mano’s new 2-story school in Chirusi Rosario will be formally dedicated in the next few weeks.
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- The master builder laying floor tiles in one of the classrooms.
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- Farmers travel to visit Mano a Mano water reservoirs in other communities, September 2022.
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- Mano a Mano’s weekend health clinic in Poza Honda on October 8-9, 2022 provided dental care for 96 people.
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- Mano a Mano transported 91,300 pounds of cargo in June 2022.
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- Hydroponic gardens at the Mano a Mano CEA.
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- Mano a Mano’s Cessna Caravan parked on the Uyuni Salt Flats.
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- Hosting a meeting at Mano a Mano’s “office” built with containers sent from Minnesota – at our site in Punata where we have many current projects underway.
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- We cut thousands of slots into these 8 section of tubing through which water will filter into the pump area. This large number of slots will guarantee reliable filtration for at least 25 years. An additional 10 pipes are installed above the slotted pipes to carry water to the surface.
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- Machine operators and local residents watch intently as water begins to flow
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- Training workshop for Universidad “Siglo XX” students at the CEA, mid-August 2022.
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- Wheelchairs from MATTER at the Mano a Mano warehouse, September 2022.
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- San Rafael clinic.
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- From the St. Kate’s Public Health newsletter.
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- Rock crusher and four machine operators at work.
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- Mano a Mano Nuevo Mundo staff working on the Cliza well at the new Waca Playa site.
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- Kids in Oromomo.
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- Kids in their new classroom in Chirusi Rosario.
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- Dedicating a water well in Chirusi in March 2022.
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- Local Witness for Peace delegation destined for Cuba with supplies and equipment donated by Mano a Mano
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- Dedicating the San Rafael Clinic on December 6th, 2022.
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- Supplies arriving in Danli, Honduras
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- These are Mano a Mano’s highest priority items in need currently.
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- Drilling the bore in Cliza, August 2022.
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- Mano a Mano volunteers loading 3 containers with 68,797 pounds of supplies and equipment for Bolivia at our St. Paul warehouse – July/August 2022.
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- Jazmín and Olivia working on small toys for the layette project, May 2022.
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- Siglo “XX” students at Mano a Mano’s Center for Ecological Agriculture.
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- Organizing supplies sent from Minnesota for distribution at our Cochabamba warehouse.
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- 1 of 3 containers leaving our warehouse en route for Bolivia, November 2022.
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- Building the deep water well in Pampa Grande, Bolivia.
