Mano a Mano seeks to improve health and well-being in marginalized Bolivian communities. Over 150 Unity Church members have traveled to Bolivia to visit the schools, health clinics, and water projects built in partnership with community residents; to help distribute medical and school supplies collected in Minnesota; and to engage with its ecological agriculture training project. To find out how you can join the next trip, May 5-15, 2025, come to an information session at Unity Church on Sunday, February 2, at 10:15 a.m., in the Gannett Room, and 12:30 p.m., in the DeCramer Room.
If you cannot attend a session and you have questions or want to learn more, please contact Ann Mabbott (Mano a Mano Board Member, who has traveled to Bolivia with Mano a Mano our past 2 trips) at [email protected].
Travelers visiting Bolivia with Mano a Mano in March; May was our second trip this year!Our counterpart organization Mano a Mano Nuevo Mundo dedicating a deep water well in the communnity of Celebrating the current progress of the Mano a Mano runway for the Mano a Mano airport under construction – May 2023.Mano a Mano dedicated a new deep water well in Mamanaca in March 2023.Students greeting a group of Mano a Mano travelers visiting their community in March 2023.This picture is Gloria MacRae visiting one of the Mano a Mano clinics in Bolivia built with her support in 2000 (she is in the middle, wearing tan pants, to the right of Mano a Mano co-founder Segundo Velasquez). Gloria celebrated her 95th birthday last year; for every birthday since 1996, it’s become a tradition for Gloria to encourage friends to make a donation to Mano a Mano in her honor, which we wrote about here.Karl Norman at the dedication of the San Jacinto clinic, 2005.A number of the South Dakota volunteers, including Diane, traveled to Bolivia with Mano a Mano in 2006; here they are sorting medical supplies sent from Minnesota at our counterpart organization Mano a Mano Bolivia’s warehouse.Mano a Mano staff and Maldonado community residents take a boat out on the Maldonado water reservoir during its dedication in March 2019. Photo taken by Paul Rogne.Blanca Velasquez from Mano a Mano rides a swan boat on the Ucuchi Reservoir during a visit in September 2019.https://manoamano.org/blog/dedicating-a-deep-well-in-laguna-carmen-bolivia/Dedicating our water reservoir in Maldonado in March 2019 was a large community celebration.Photo taken during our trip to Bolivia in March 2019.Jackie Smith, in Bolivia on our most recent Teacher Trip in 2019.Lindsay with the mayor of Omereque, Hector Arce, receiving an acknowledgement letter from the community during a trip in March 2017.One of the dedication events for the El Palmar road in late 2014. Check out 58 more pictures on Facebook.Compost day at the CEA.Travelers visiting a Mano a Mano clinic in Omereque during our March 2017 trip.The community of Sora Sora celebrating the completion of their school on June 28, 2016.Morgan Harden (right) volunteering at Mano a Mano’s Center for Ecological Agriculture, October 2017.Susan Eyre with Mano a Mano co-founder Segundo Velasquez on a trip to Bolivia in November 2012Minnesota teachers being recognized with the guirnalda during a trip in 2014.Mano a Mano staff and volunteers at the Tipa Tipa clinic, March 2017.Rural Bolivians celebrate with Oxford University volunteers. New greenhouses mean a drastic change for the children in these families, who will grow stronger with a more reliable diet – August/September 2016.Mano a Mano staff & volunteers gathering for a meal in the empty warehouse (only empty for a little while!).Ray in Bolivia in March 2016 helping unload supplies shipped from Minnesota.Minnesota and Bolivia teachers during a workshop, 2013.Group of Mano a Mano travelers visiting the Wirkini Water Project currently under construction, March 2015.Oxford Development Abroad volunteer group, in Tapacari, Bolivia, 2015.Mano a Mano arriving in El Palmar for the dedication of the road in October 2014.Dedication event for Mano a Mano’s water reservoir project in Sancayani.Minnesota teachers arriving in Arani, Bolivia.Mano a Mano travelers in Jironkota on our ‘Food and Farming’ Trip in March 2014.Visiting the Wirkini Water Reservoir.As part of a 2014 trip, travelers visited rural communities in the department of Cochabamba, including Jironkota.Practical session during the May 2011 International Acute Care Conference.MELA volunteers, Mano a Mano Bolivia staff, and attendees for the pilot trauma course in December 2013.Anne handing out packs of snacks and school supplies to kids alongside Mano a Mano staff, at the dedication of a recent road project in CurzaniOxford volunteers Helena, Henry, and Abda at the Demonstration Center in August 2012.Donating books and school supplies in Arani – June 2013Arani, BoliviaRenee (second from left) with St. Kates faculty and students, Opus Prize Executive Director Don Neureuther, and Mano a Mano co-founder Segundo Velasquez during their due diligence trip to Bolivia in 2012.Practical Session for Intraosseous Infusion at last years’ conference in May 2012Dedication ceremony at Sancayani water reservoirDedication of a new runway in Pena ColoradaVisiting the Uyuni Salt Flats on the Mano a Mano plane. Mano a Mano built a health clinic in Laguna Sulti, Bolivia.The group participating in the dedication of a deep water well project in Flores Rancho
