Mauricio Ramirez has been a long-time member of the North Carolina and
Cochabamba, Bolivia Partners of the Americas. He operated Study Abroad programs
for 18 years with the Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD). When that
organization closed in October 2018 he reorganized the program that is now called
“FSD Bolivia”. After the reorganization, new programs were started with the support of Northwestern University in Chicago and the Amizade organization based in
Pittsburgh. https://amizade.org/
This summer, 10 students from Northwestern University and two from Rice University volunteered in Health, Environment and Urban Agriculture programs in Bolivia. A group of Agriculture students from the University of Illinois is scheduled to arrive in Cochabamba in January 2020. That project will involve working with a group of young people, mostly females, in the southern area of the Cochabamba Department. They will help set up greenhouses at a community center. They will also visit apiaries with beekeepers with whom NC Partners worked in the past. Another example of a project was visiting the Vitaliano trout farm which is on the road to the Chapare (Tropical area) and a banana processing plant in the same area.
Please join us in welcoming Mauricio and learning more about his opportunities. We will meet together on November 6th at 4:45 pm at The Rickhouse, Durham NC 27701. See the following for more information on the programs Mauricio is a part of: Brochure FSD Bolivia 2019 -2