More than 80 Aymara Indian boys and girls are learning to read and write in a new school in the Andes Mountains, thanks to the students at East Sandy Elementary in Salt Lake City, Utah. The new school, 12,500 feet above sea level near Lake Titicaca, was built with the help of $1,000 donated by the East Sandy students under the Utah-Bolivia Partners program. Its official name is East Sandy School of Chahuira Pampa. The school, a one-story adobe-brick building with a corrugated metal roof, sparkles in the sun on the Bolivian altiplano, a barren, windswept plateau ringed by the Andes. It is 80 feet long, 22 feet wide, and its outside walls are painted royal blue. To earn money for the school, the Utah children mowed lawns, washed dishes, sold newspapers and held a carnival. The Chahuira Pampa school is the 90th altiplano school completed or nearly completed with the help of Utah children. In 1969, the Utah-Bolivia Partners began a three-way cooperative effort to build schools in the altiplano The Utah children raise money, the Aymara Indians donate land and labor, and the Bolivian Government provides teachers. The Utah-Bolivia Partners is part of a U.S.-Latin American people-to-people program called the Partners of the Americas. In 1964, the Partners of the Americas was established within the U.S. Agency for International Development to provide volunteer private citizen technical assistance to complement AID programs. In 1970, the Partners become a completely private, nonprofit organization. Today, the Partners consists of 48 partnerships that link U.S. states with regions and countries of Latin America. Their programs focus on education, health, agriculture and rural development, cultural arts, rehabilitation and special education, and sports. The Partners receive financial support from AID, other U.S. government agencies and private organizations and citizens.
| Date Taken: | 08.12.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 08.24.2015 15:34 |
| Photo ID: | 2117715 |
| VIRIN: | 150812-O-ZZ999-175 |
| Resolution: | 16000x12908 |
| Size: | 19.49 MB |
| Location: | CHAHUIRA PAMPA, BO |
| Web Views: | 47 |
| Downloads: | 13 |
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