We provide continuous technical-productive training in trades such as pastry, baking and ice cream making, and related fields, so that participants can start or strengthen businesses that generate income of their own.
Delivered under an inter-institutional agreement with the Departmental Directorate of Education and the Ministry of Education of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Participants receive certificates that back their technical and vocational training.
Guidance on business planning, digital payments through QR codes, and promotion of each business on social media and in local media.
We explicitly link a woman's own income to lower economic dependence on third parties, particularly a spouse or partner. In our context, that dependence is a direct risk factor for violence within the family.
Women who already run a business also receive support through private donations channeled via partner institutions, used to buy equipment and working materials.
When we describe these businesses as self-sustaining, we mean a person's ability to apply the technical knowledge they have gained on their own, without depending on continuous external funding, to produce and sell goods or services. We make this clear to avoid any confusion with environmental sustainability, which is not the sense in which we use the term.