La Paz, Bolivia.....is Now

About a week ago, a friend I met while on summer project headed down to La Paz, Bolivia to work with a Christian social welfare organization called Bolivian Street Children Project (BSCP). She has been keeping a blog about her experience and I highly recommend checking it out.

Here is a short snippet Patty included in her email about BSCP prior to heading down to Bolivia:

BSCP is a christian social welfare organization that seeks to love kids who live on the streets and introduce them to a new hope to live in the world, a completely different world from which they are familiar with. These children have left homes due to abuse or have been forced to the streets due to the death of both parents. On the streets the children may have their autonomy, but lack so much knowledge to live the life kids should live. BCSP serves the thousands of street children living in La Paz by forming relationships with them in their world, the streets. They invite children to live in their homes where they are able to receive education, food, stable housing, and most importantly a familial love. The kind of love that doesn´t hold back in loving the core of the person, but will also not hold back in offering order and guidance that every child needs from a parent-figure.

This is what she will be doing:

I will be working for the next five weeks with this organization to assist in establishing a more established volunteer program. This organization receives numerous requests from volunteers from both America and Europe, yet there are no concrete volunteer positions to which people can apply. Most often this organization will take volunteers and then create a volunteer position that cater to the skills of the individual, which can be fruitful, but inevitably leads to more work on the part of BSCP. My work will involve a week of observing all the activities of BCSP, creating and writing several formal volunteer positions, and creating a handbook that can serve to orient a volunteer prior to arrival in Bolivia.

Again, you can find the blog for her time down there here.