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Announcing the Educacion y Futuro A Bed for Each Child Project in Tarija, Bolivia

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Good afternoon, my friends.   As I move around, I come across some terrific opportunities to enlist friends in an effort to do some good in the world.  Many of you recall the Bed for Each Child project(s) at the Kimbondo Orphanage in Kinshasa, D.R. Congo.  ( A Bed for Each Child--Congo )  That three year project raised $62,000 over a three year period and transformed a desperately overcrowded and run down housing unit for abandoned kids into a clean, bright, and less overcrowded home for dozens of Congolese children.  This extended project brought together close to a hundred and fifty people from around the world, came in on budget, and made a palpable difference.  And in the wake of the success of that project, I have--since moving to Bolivia in 2017--been looking for a similar such endeavor to promote here. And I confident that I've found one. In March, our family flew to Tarjia, a smallish city in the southern region of Bolivia. The main attractions...