Materials for the rural
agronomist school "Centro Educativo Agropecuario Tarat",
in Bolivia, Euro 1340
The
Centro Educativo Agropecuario Tarat is a boarding school for rural
children in Tarata, Bolivia. Officially, the school can take 65
students, but at the moment there are more than 80 students. The
demand for places at the school far exceeds the available space and
resources, and the school is now stretched to a maximum.
The
children are offered the official state curriculum and - more
importantly - learn agricultural and technical skills. The aim is to
teach the children to use their parents' plots of land more
efficiently and productively. This will improve the economic
situation of their families. It will also keep the children from
ending up on the streets in the cities. The only other option for
schooling that the parents have is to send their children to the
city to go to high school, but the kids do not have the resources to
pay for their stay away from home so a lot of them end up living on
the streets.
The school is an initiative of one man, who is very committed to the
villages in the area, and his efforts and success are amazing. The
school is being built gradually on municipal premises. It has
obtained the right to use the plot for 30 years, and the government
pays the salaries of five teachers. But the rest of the money for
resources, food, tools, animals etc. has to come from donations of
local people who support the project. Since the region is quite poor
and the demand for a place at the school is increasing daily, the
boarding school is permanently in need of all basic necessities.
500 Chickens 350 Euro
600 quails ( small birds) 240 Euro
6 pigs 150 Euro
Animals food 300 Euro
Seeds and fertilizer 150 Euro
Tools ( for farming work) 150 Euro
