Project to help Bolivian institutions that work with displaced children to implement income-generating vocational training workshops or agricultural projects, initially in the Departments of Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, and Trinidad. The project will be implemented through a PASA with the Peace Corps. USAID funds will be used for start-up costs — to build infrastructure, equip workshops, hire instructors, cover operating costs, and in some cases pay stipends to participating youth. Four institutions have been selected for participation in the project on the basis of their: cultural sensitivity; efforts to place displaced children (orphans, drug users, delinquents, abandoned and working children) in family/community settings; commitment; qualified staff; and focus on innovative, entrepreneurial, action-oriented, cost-effective projects. The institutions and their programs are as follows. (1) ENDA, an international organization created under UN auspices, plans a tile and ceramics workshop as part of its drug prevention program for high-risk children in Trinidad Department. (2) AMANECER supports abandoned children and unwed mothers in Cochabamba Department; it is planning a metal mechanics workshop. (3) Centro San Martin de Porres in Cochabamba Department is the only Bolivian organization that works exclusively with drug-using children; it plans a chicken and small animal farm. (4) CASA MITAI, a government-operated project for orphans and street children in Santa Cruz, is planning a horticulture and floriculture project. The Peace Corps will provide volunteers who are specialists in these project areas, as well as supervisory TA, for up to 6 years.
