IOU Bolivia always looks forward to leveraging the unique talents of those interested in helping. The organization often finds that it takes all types of talents to truly advance the mission of the organization. A few of the frequent ways our partners and teams support us in-country are detailed below.
The International Orphanage Union is a Non Government Organization (NGO) recognized by the Bolivian Government and a 501c3 charitable organization in the United States. We are dedicated to caring for orphaned children, connecting them with God and finding them a Christian home to grow with their new family and faith. Our organization is funded through the sales of Bolivia’s Best Coffee with 100% of all profits directly supporting the ministry to orphaned children. Read More →
Annie here for her last blog. with just 2 weeks to go now till I head off travelling I’m trying to soak up as much as Cochabamba as I can and do all the things I’ve wanted to do here since I arrived.I’ve tasted all the main typical foods including silpancho, saltenas, pique machu etc. I have yet to try Chicha the sort of corn beer thing as I’m not drinking here but on my travels when I return to Bolivia I will clear up any things missed then!I’m going to try...
Hello I am Sam and I am the new intern from England. After four flights I arrived in this beautiful country on Friday 2nd April in Cochabamba to start my 3 month mission trip. The journey was OK until I touched down in La Paz where the altitude posed a big problem for me. Thankfully I only had to be there a couple of hours… Mike, Sydney, Gracie and Annie where waiting for me at Cochabamba airport and I was already getting really excited at this opportunity I was given. I was glad...
So it’s been a while and we’ve been really busy with two teams in the last few weeks. One from New Hampshire (24 16-18 yr olds) where we spent 3 days in camp kewina, doing general jobs around the buildings…we painted the roof and some of the rooms, we also did a vacation Bible school two of the days where we had 90 7-9 year olds a day and had craft, bible and games stations. It was quite hard to communicate a lot with them because they didn’t speak much spanish,...