The Bus of health and good living 2022

Bolivia

Justification

In the intervention area, the absence of medical specialists in the public health system is a fact, most of them serve in private spaces. In addition, the public health system works with children up to the age of 5 and does not collaborate with civil society organizations. This leaves a wide swath of the population uncovered by any free health care system. In these years, and thanks to the work of the Fundación San Lucas Mobile Hospital, communities with a zero mortality rate have been achieved.

Location

Municipality of Cochabamba

Local Partner

San Lucas Foundation (FSL)

Objectives

General objective: Promote comprehensive health and citizen participation in peri-urban communities of Cochabamba through Primary Health Care.

Specific goal: Reduce the morbidity and mortality of the population through public health (management), preventive health and curative health.

Main population

(children, youth, women and men).

Project duration

Budget

Financing

TAU, Astiz Iraizoz Hnos Foundation (€40,000)

Activities:

  • Signing of agreements, one per year in the eight Territorial Base Organizations.
  • Health diagnosis or baseline, one per year in two communities.
  • 2 six-monthly community training workshops in eight Territorial Base Organizations.
  • Training of 4 new health promoters and continuous training for 15 old promoters with 4 theoretical workshops and practical sessions twice a month, for 6 months, with the doctor of the Health and Good Living Bus.
  • 10 training workshops for 120 women from eight communities. 1 workshop per month for 10 months in eight communities.
  • 3 job skills training workshops: crafts and confectionery for 120 women.
    120 women participate in the first fair of skills, ancestral medicine and traditional foods.
  • 6 fortnightly training workshops for 6 months in eight communities, 320 children.
  • 6 cultural and sports activities (theater, music, march against violence, murals with messages, ecological campaign, sporting event, recreation activity) in eight communities, 320 children.
  • School support for 150 children in reading, writing and mathematics with the support of young community volunteers and education science students, twice a month for 10 months.
  • 16 volunteer adolescents are part of the “Supporting my community” program in recreational, cultural, sports activities, school support and accompaniment to older adults in a situation of abandonment. Twice a month in eight communities.
  • 10 adolescents are supported with transportation to complete their school or technical studies.
  • 16 young people from eight communities participate in the Annual Youth Meeting.
  • Fortnightly medical consultation for 10 months in eight communities, 1,800 patients, 240 days.
  • Five families without resources benefit from the Solidarity Health Fund.