The El Alfarero – Student Centre will function in the city of Santa Cruz, close to the state university. Santa Cruz has a huge student population, and in contrast to many other Bolivian cities, it has a campus where all the university faculties are concentrated. The campus of the state university currently has 60,000 students studying and there are many private universities opening up all over Santa Cruz.

The El Alfarero – Student Centre in Santa Cruz will draw on the six years of experience of the El Alfarero – Student Centre in Sucre. It will position itself alongside the university campus, and seek to meet a wide variety of needs that the students have, including their economic needs, social needs, emotional needs, physical and spiritual needs. It will seek to do this by providing the same basic services that are provided in Sucre – a café with cheap, nutritious food, music and games, a system of volunteering, a counseling centre, a pregnancy crisis centre, a library and training courses.

Project Name: El Alfarero - Student Centre, Santa Cruz

Project Number: BO91140

Project Budget - $1,136,190

(There are links on the right-hand side of this page to downloadable PDF versions of the Project Proposal document, and the Financial Plan. Please feel free to take a look at both of these documents to get a fuller idea of the plans for the Santa Cruz El Alfarero project.)

Raised so far: $400,000

For more information, or a copy of the project proposal document, please write to project directors, Graham and Debbie Frith, at  graham.frith@sim.org