Our story...

Isaac and Anali met in the UK but have made the decision to follow a call to move to Bolivia and help children. Anali, originally from Bolivia, had shared videos with Isaac that depicted poverty affecting children in the region; some were documentaries, while others were clips from family contacts. During Isaac's first trip to Bolivia, they witnessed the harsh realities of poverty, particularly the plight of street children in both urban and rural areas. In the city, they encountered young children, working on the roadside, washing car windows selling biscuits to survive. Many of these kids had no means of income, while others lived on the streets, often sleeping under bridges or in drainage canals. As they walked they noticed children sleeping on benches or exhibiting vacant stares, under the influence of drugs like glue self-medicating to escape their hunger and despair. 

 

Rural areas face similar challenges, but especially poverty, malnutrition, violence, and abuse, causing families to split up and children to flee to the city centres or abandoned with another family. These children require more than just food; they need nurturing, security, and a sense of family and community—a place to know their worth as individuals.

 

Over the last few years Isaac and Anali have been reaching out to children and communities in poverty. Supported by their friends and family in the UK their voluntary work has enabled them to establish family life in a rural area of Santa Cruz. With a new childcare project on the horizon with the authorities they are well positioned to be one of the first families in Bolivia to provide foster care with options to later adopt. This includes sibling groups; in the past siblings may have been split up and sent to separate instituional homes according to space/age/needs etc. Isaac and Anali are passionate about keeping families together and have accommodation with this in mind.

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Recently in the local communities, many neighbours suffered due to a tsunami flood event which wiped out homes, families, bridges, livelyhoods and forests. Isaac and Anali have been working in various ways to help those that suffered and also to repair roads and reforest areas of land.