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Potatoes, Prayers, and Prisons: A Quaker Study Tour of Bolivian Resilience
Jonny Costello is working with Quaker Earthcare Witness through the quaker Voluntary Service Program. He traveled with the Quaker “Connections” Study Tour to Bolivia where he interviewed various projects linked to climate resilience. Click to read Jonny’s publication!
Quaker “Connections” Study Tour
Click here to read all about our latest Quaker “Connections” Study Tour to Bolivia. Interested in traveling with us to Bolivia in January 2027? Click here to submit an inquiry form and we will send you more information.
Student Updates: June 2025
Scholarship students share highlights from their favorite classes!
BQEF Student-led Conference on Education - 3/30/25
“ La educación es la llave que abre las puertas del futuro; cada lección aprendida es un paso hacia los sueños que deseas alcanzar.”
Anahi Ajhuacho Lopez, (Educación Matemática) 5to Año
An Experience of Love
Bolivian Quakers’ Witness to Climate Crisis
Like many Bolivian young people, I feel grateful to have grown up among Indigenous people. They value the creation that gives them food, shelter, peace, and joy. Since I was a child, I have known that stones, mountains, rivers, plants, flowers, and animals are loved, respected, and honored by the local people, young and old, in our community… click to read more.
Updates from BQEF Students: February, 2025
What did BQEF Scholars do during their vacation and what are their goals for 2025?
Winter 2024 Newsletter
Gratitude and Reciprocity
“…in reciprocity, we can reclaim our sense of ourselves as givers, as well, as full participants in the flourishing of the world. And that’s joyful. It gives you a sense of kinship and purpose…”
- Practical Reverence, An Interview with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Emergence Magazine Podcast, 11/21/24.
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Climate Change and Adaptation in Bolivia
Biologist Lucia Blanco, Environmental Engineer, BQEF Graduate Guido Quispe, and current BQEF scholar of Animal Husbandry Isabel Rojas engage in a thoughtful discussion regarding the various causes and significant consequences of Climate Change in Bolivia.