Improving nutrition

CIPE is an NGO based in Llallagua, in the north of Potosí, one of Bolivia’s poorest departments.

CIPE has developed vegetable cultivation in hothouses, based on the use of worms to produce humus. This programme has not only improved the diet of the families, especially the children, leading to improved school performance, but has also given women, who sell surplus produce, an income of their own, which they tend to devote to the welfare of their children.

CIPE has also developed a policy of strengthening the traditional administrative unit, the ayllu, and bringing its influence to bear on the local authority, thus ensuring a fairer share of municipal investment for the rural areas through the ‘popular participation’ process.

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