Past Programs

Instituto Agropecuario de Tarata

The Centro Agropecuario de Tarata is located in one of the poorest regions in the Department of Cochabamba. This Institute helps to fill a void of non-existent schools in the area and responds to the socio-cultural medium from which the students come. The Institute prepares local students through a curriculum based on study, work and production, facilitating the regional economical development and optimal education of students with the loss of their cultural identity.

Juan Jose Torres School

This community began as a settlement of immigrants from the highlands of Bolivia in the outskirts of the city of Cochabamba. BCF and the Bolivian Association of Houston provided the funds for the first fifteen classrooms and operations costs to get the school started. Once the school had municipal support, the remaining classrooms (through grade 12) and administration costs were provided by the state. BCF continued improving the quality of education through the construction and equipment of science and computer labs, athletic and music equipment. Today Juan Jose has more than 1,600 students.

Nino Feliz

This is a non-profit organization that provides meals, day care and education for children of economically impoverished families in Santa Cruz. The organizations also have an educational center that offers technical job training. For five years BCF provided the funds to improve the facility and to provide meals for the Children’s Dining Center, which provides breakfast and lunch to more than 200 children from impoverished families.

Teresa de los Andes Home

A non-profit organization based in Santa Cruz, Teresa de los Andes provides a home for mentally and physically handicapped children who have been abandoned by their families. The home provides warm beds, meals, general medicine, neurological care, physical therapy and lots of love. The purpose of the home is to provide a good quality of life for these children and to help them realize their maximum potential.