Little Info For the Masses

For those of you who are not familiar with where the heck Bolivia is, its a landlocked country in the middle of South America. The western side of the country is about 3 miles above sea level in the Andes mountains and is where the capital city of La Paz is located. Our travels will not stop there however as we will be continuing on to Santa Cruz which is in the lowlands in the east.

Santa Cruz has a population of about 1.5 million people, but the city is not made up of high rises and looks like a very large small town when you are in it. Click here for the wikipedia page about Santa Cruz.

The main purpose of our trip is to help out our friend Ken Switzer and the El Jordan organization who work with street kids.  Ron will be providing introductory computer classes and Melody will be teaching the girls esthetics services so they can make some honest income.  Both Ken and El Jordan strive to get the kids off the streets, into schools or classes and keep them off.

Below is the building that we will be teaching in.  Our accommodations will not be quite so nice however.  If you click on this sentence, you will get a youtube video of a recent rain at the place we will be staying.  Gives you a real idea of how nice we have it here.