WMF Bolivia collaborates with locally run organizations serving those vulnerable to poverty and exploitation.
Ariel Alexander, the Latin America Regional Coordinator for Word Made Flesh, facilitates opportunities for interns and volunteers to serve with local partners who respond to both educational vulnerabilities and sexual exploitation through economic opportunities. If you are interested in applying for internships in Bolivia or Latin America, you can Apply Here.
Bolivia Blog
A Pox on Delays
June 1, 2009 Dear friends, How ridiculously bogged down things can get in a majority world country. I claim to be a nonviolent person until I get stuck in Migration Services or hear about our legal battles to keep our tax-exempt status. At those times, if I had a medieval broadsword, I might…
Transit Cops
October 2009 Because I don’t drive in Bolivia, opting instead for the haphazard public transport system, I’ve never dealt with one of the most corrupt facets of Bolivian society—Transit Cops. But my fiancée just bought his first car, an ’81 bile green Beetle, and ran into trouble his first day driving. At a…
Voluntary Displacement
May 2009 Through voluntary displacement, we counteract the tendency to become settled in a false comfort and to forget the fundamentally unsettled position that we share with all people. Voluntary displacement leads us to the existential recognition of our inner brokenness and thus brings us to a deeper solidarity with the brokenness of our fellow…