CURRENT NEWS
July 2010
Dear Friends and Supporters,
Greetings from a windy La Paz. August is known as the windy month here as the winter turns into spring. In August we also celebrate Bolivia’s National Day, the 6th of August with school, military and public worker parades and a long holiday weekend this year. read more...
June 2010
Dear Friends and Supporters,
Our warmest greetings on behalf of the students and staff of the Helping Hands Project. A lot has been going on this month with our students who are doing their practical studies and class trips, and we have some pictures we thought you would enjoy. You will see why we are proud of all our students. read more...
May 2010
Dear Friends and Supporters,
Greetings from everyone at Helping Hands. We wish you a great summer vacation. Our winter is settling in and the mornings are COLD. We all wait for the sun to come out, which it does about every day!!! But wintertime is the time for the big GRAN PODER DANCING PARADE and our volunteer Alex participated this year, dancing the Sicuriada from 10:00 am to 8:00pm. The Gran Poder Parade is second in fame to the Oruro Carnaval Parade known world wide.read more...
April
Dear Friends and Supporters.
Greetings to you all from the Helping Hands Project. Winter is approaching in La Paz and the flu is making its rounds within the Project. Our coldest months are June and July so we will try to have lots of oranges from Coroico on hand at the office for the students to eat.
This month we would like to highlight our girls from Coroico, a small town in the subtropics, where oranges, tangerines, avocados, mangos, coffee and, of course, coca are grown. read more...
March 2010
Dear Friends and Supporters,
Greetings from everyone at the Helping Hands Project. All of our students are now registered and busy with their post secondary studies. Our six high school students have been in classes since the beginning of February. We invite you to visit our updated website at www.helpinghands-bolivia.org where you will meet Alex and Kai, our volunteers, and more students.read more...
BRACELETS
The Bracelets Project helps the students of Helping Hands to finance their own personal expenses. The students make beautiful hand made macramé bracelets which we then sell abroad. The earnings go to the bracelet makers for their personal expenses and to supplement Read more......
Our friends at The Radclyffe School selling our macrame bracelets.
