Oxford Development Abroad and Mano a Mano

Next week a group of 6 students from Oxford Development Abroad (ODA), “a student-run charity that works to harness the energy, enthusiasm and resources of the Oxford student body to assist with small-scale, community-initiated development projects in the developing world,” will be traveling to Bolivia to work with Mano a Mano on our Demonstration and Training Center project in Cochabamba.

Second Project with ODA

This is the second year that Oxford students are working on the demonstration and training center; last year 3 students worked on the initial clearing and construction of the site.

Oxford volunteers Helena, Henry, and Abda at the Demonstration Center in August 2012.

More recent pic from the Demonstration Center – students harvesting their lunch from one of the gardens

Description of this Year’s Project

Oxford students wrote a newsletter that describes this year’s projects in more detail (Bolivia project on page 3):

ODA Newsletter

Safe and Happy Travels!

We are looking forward to starting this project next week, and thanks to ODA volunteers for taking part in this project!