Bolivia Partner Churches and Organizations

The PC(USA)'s partner church in Bolivia is the Iglesia Evangelica Presbiteriana en Bolivia.

Although the PC(USA) does not have a formal partnership with another denomination in Bolivia, it relates to the Iglesia Evangelica Presbiteriana
(Presbyterian Church of Bolivia) through the Alliance of Presbyterian and Reformed Churches of Latin America (AIPRAL). In 1982 the Presbyterian Church of Korea began working with the Aymará people and five years later a Bolivian church was established. Through AIPRAL, the PC(USA) assigned a mission co-worker couple and a three-way mission couple to serve for a time with that church. The PC(USA) continues to be involved in Bolivia through the Presbyterian Hunger Program.

The Kechuaymara Foundation was established in 1984 by Quechua and Aymará leaders from 40 indigenous communities. The foundation supports small development projects and trains local "promoters" in agriculture, cattle breeding, and management of natural resources. Among other projects, the Presbyterian Hunger Program now supports a project to improve milk production in native cattle through genetic improvement, increased grain production, enlarging cattle barns, and buying milk processors. This project benefits 145 Aymará families.

Amanecer works with children living and/or working in the streets of Bolivia. It was founded as a preventative strategy to assist, promote, and rehabilitate the women and children of the streets. It stresses education, spiritual and psychological growth, and family living. Amanecer has six group homes, a drop-in center, a day-care center, a school (grades 1-8) and a vocational training complex for women and children. The Hunger program supports Amanecer's project, "Nourishment for Life," which serves over 85,000 meals a year to street children.

Amauta is a small grassroots organization in the city of Sucre which the Hunger Program supports in a project to terrace, rehabilitate, and irrigate 10 hectares of farm land to be used to grow peanuts, green vegetables, and fruits.

The Evangelical Methodist Church in Bolivia received a grant from the Presbyterian Hunger Program for a three-year program to construct 20 adobe and plastic greenhouses each year for family vegetable production. This will improve the nutrition of as many as 3,500 people in six communities.

Comai-Pachmama works on the altiplano to improve the diet and self-sufficiency of communities through the cultivation of quinua, a native Andean cereal that was grown for millennia but is no longer widely in use.