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La Aldea means village. Cristo Rey is a place where children are housed, while their parents are imprisoned
in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Earlier these children lived inside the prison, together with their parents, because
there were no alternative possibilities. Luckily this has changed since a couple of years, because the fathers
Augustinians now take care of a number of children in ‘La Aldea’, when there is no other possibility within
their families.

Perspective 3000 knows this project since 2005, but visited it again only in 2017. This visit resulted in the
start of a new initiative from Perspective 3000 Foundation in 2020..

In 2020 Perspective 3000 Foundation wants to support ‘La Aldea Cristo Rey’ project in Bolivia.

2020 Renovation Library. Costs € 10.000, –
At the moment this library is out of date and needs renovation. Therefore, it is not an inspiring place for
children and youngsters. Perspective 3000 Foundation wants to raise an amount of € 10.000, – to transform
this library into a dynamic learning and recreation room. It wants to do so with the support of Wild Geese
and its donors. Also, we like to add children’s reading books, games and handicraft materials.

2020 Renovation kitchen. Costs € 5.000,
The common kitchen of ‘La Aldea’ is out of date as well and desperately needs an uplift too as well as
new pots and pans. An amount of € 5.000, – has been asked for this.

What happened earlier:

2017 Introduction to ‘La Aldea’.
In 2017 we visited Cochabamba and went to ‘La Aldea Cristo Rey’, where children are housed. Their parents
are imprisoned and there is no other possibility within their families to shelter them.
68 boys and girls between 3 and 18 years, temporarily live in ‘La Aldea’ at the moment. In this children-village
they live in small houses, with a maximum of 10 children each, together with a foster parent, to give them the
feeling of a family life. We were impressed and asked if Perspective 3000 could do something for ‘La Aldea’.
In 2019 we received a request for the renovation of their library and to transform it into a multi-functional room.
Here children not only would be able to study and read, but also have their cultural and creative activities and
workshops [singing, dancing, drawing, painting and so on]

2005 Children live together with their imprisoned parents in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
In 2005 we visited the prison of Cochabamba. We had heard that children lived there together with their
imprisoned parents. We bought children’s games and organised an afternoon to entertain the children.
Nice? Yes, of course. Useful? Maybe. We did this only once, as we saw more organizations were focussed on
the same activity. We understood that the nursing faculty of the University, under supervision of nuns, were
taking care of the medical side of the children and the people in prison. Luckily, for a number of years now,
there is the opportunity for these children to grow up in a safe environment outside prison and at the same
time keep in touch with their parents.