Bolivia
Established 2003
Sites: 3 - Children Served: 1393
High in the Andes Mountains of South America, students walk up to 14 hours one way to attend school. In Tinquipaya, CCCS supports the Lutheran boarding school where students live while attending the public school. The cost of tuition for the boarding school includes twenty pounds of potatoes, six eggs and six pounds of a crop grown by their family! This boarding school is progressive, encouraging families to send their girls for educational opportunities. HIV education is also a major goal for the boarding school. A family atmosphere is focused on love, respect and helping each other.
The Aymara Natives attend school in El Alto, Bolivia at the Lutheran Institute. Because the students are poor and cannot travel, the school encourages and sponsors two religious based retreats per year to the countryside.
Jesus the Teacher school in Cochabamba reports their school is in a very poor area. However, your support of a Christian presence and ministry through the school has positively changed the attitude of the community for the better. School chaplain Rev. Rene Mendoza has visited 200 families with the Gospel; he reports the town has seen a drastic decrease in gangs due to parent outreach and education from the Lutheran school.

Cochabama, Jesus the Teacher School

Jesus the Teacher has 70 teachers and 900 students. Of these 900 students, 32 are special education students. Rene Mendoza is the chaplain of the school and the Preseident of the ICEL. He reports this school is especially strong in their religion classes. They have 8 boys and 14 girls for a total of 22 students in their 2010-2011 confirmation class!

El Alto, Iglesia Evangelican Lutherana Boliviana IELB