WOMEN’S SHELTER IN BOLIVIA

WOMEN’S SHELTER OPENING IN BOLIVIA  

 THE PAZ FOUNDATION WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTER AND COMMUNITY KITCHEN

The Paz Foundation Women’s Shelter and Economic Resource Center provides a safe environment for women and children facing homelessness or domestic abuse. We offer shelter, support, and resources to help them rebuild their lives. Our First Women’s Resource Center will open in Cochabamba on April 15, 2025. See our Blog Post on “How to Stop Verbal Abuse.”

The Paz Foundation has worked in the City of La Paz and El Alto for five years. We have sponsored a refuge center for Women and Children in El Alto. The new Women’s Resource Center is located in Cochabamba, Bolivia. We assist women and young girls with Social and job training programs.

We have over 300 Women men and Children already signed up as Volunteers and we are starting a Micro-lending program via a local bank and training starting business incubators 

The Women’s Shelter takes young families off the streets and helps them by offering refuge. We offer programs preventing Sexual abuse and early pregnancies. The Paz Foundation will begin the legal registration processing and is projecting a grand opening on April 28, 2025. We welcome your DONATIONS   

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

The Resource Center is managed by a Board of Directors chosen from candidates of highly respected civic leaders and experts in domestic violence shelter management, attorneys, and accountants specializing in non-profit organization laws.

Our organizational management business model is designed by highly qualified business administrators. The Center will register all our programs and activities with local Police, Sheriff’s offices, Hospitals, the Mayor’s office, and the governor. 

The Center will have a minimum of 30 housing units for a small family of three to four persons with some units up to 1,000 Sq. Ft. each. All persons receiving assistance are required to volunteer for the various programs we offer at the Center.

The Center will design an Arts, music, and culture center for the healing process. Programs will include a Music and Dance Studio, pottery, sculpture, painting, etc. The Center will integrate a full-service cafeteria and Food Bank. Restaurants, supermarkets, and food distributors are donating food and supplies so we can offer freshly prepared meals for the poor, homeless, needy, guests, volunteers, and employees.

The Center will have a full-time registered nurse, a licensed therapist, and a 24/7 crisis hotline for victims of violence, abuse, or sexual exploitation. The Center is providing Legal services. Accepted victims of abuse will be required to attend violence and abuse awareness counseling and Children will attend separate sessions. All victims and their families will be invited to volunteer and support us in other services we provide (i.e., Food preparation, Feeding the homeless and Elderly, etc.).

The Center will provide Job Training and certification programs for those wanting to learn a new trade, or profession or complete their education degrees. The Center will have a special section dedicated to the protection of children who are victims of sexual, labor, and exploitation or abuse.

 SOCIAL SERVICES OFFERED AT THE WOMEN’S SHELTER

a).  Provide Educational Scholarships, grants, and donations. To donate funds to fully established local and national scholarship program organizations.

b.) Provide Women and Children domestic violence centers dedicated to assisting families with transitional legal counseling, medical, educational, and housing services when dealing with domestic violence, substance abuse,e, and children’s sexual and Femecides.

d). Provide Emotional and Grief Recovery Centers. The centers will provide physiological and psychological counseling for individuals and their families to help them recover from their crises.

THE “CAMERON DEAN AGUILAR” COMMUNITY KITCHEN

The second project is the “Cameron Dean Aguilar” Community Food Kitchen: I, Luis Ortiz Aguilar Sr. am proud to honor the memory of my grandson Cameron Dean Aguilar who died of Cancer.  

Also, we are starting by serving 300 Breakfasts and 200 dinner meals per day of highly nutritious food to women and children before they start school and families in need. In other words,  we are ensuring that no one goes hungry.

Authored by:

Luis Ortiz Aguilar