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Praise Women

met in the city of El Alto Bolivia several women with extraordinary hunger for justice, and equipped with everything needed to make it prevail: intelligence, honesty, enthusiasm, determination, and commitment.

El Alto is so close to La Paz and so far from everything. Is the Bolivian city that has grown rapidly (over harm than good), in just three decades, and does not end suffering growth problems, as an awkward and gawky teenager. The dusty streets and garbage, the absence of trees, the urban landscape holds frightening than when they merely exposes garish brick construction, concrete, bare metal rods. The apathy of the authorities and population, high crime rates, prostitution, drug trafficking and manufacturing, make social problems are acute and that many of the people who live there belong to the range of informal citizenship.

And yet, that same ugly and neglected urban space, is shared by a respectable amount of projects, NGOs and cultural associations to develop a social work continuing, in spite of all that just described.

One such institution is the Centre for Education and Communication for Communities and Indigenous People (CECOPI), which he founded in 1997 Donato Ayma aymara outstanding communicator and former minister of education, and now heads his daughter Tania Ayma. CECOPI and Radio Atipiri visited as part of an assessment that I made a few months from the WACC programs in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, and I could not but marvel at the results over those of the expected unexpected in the original project proposal, but are certainly the unexpected consequence of the expected.

I spoke with several women in El Alto, Tiwanaku and Santiago de Callapa who participated in the training courses offered by CECOPI and directed by Tania Ayma itself, and all agreed that since then their lives had changed quickly. Women who lived before delivered to the housework, locked in their communities, suffering from sexism that is prevalent in the world denied aymara and politically active, suddenly discovered new horizons.

is the case Porphyria Quispe Perez, Lidia Apaza Cheese, Juana Choque Quispe, Sonia Ramos and Marthin Alejo Cruz Osco, who told me their life stories. "Before, I did not leave my house and engaged in agricultural work, but since I started working with the radio, my life has changed, my involvement in women's organizations has been increased, and now I'm in the Women's Federation Bartolina Sisa, I was elected provincial leader Pacajes "says Lidia.

"I was very shy," he said Marthin-want to lose the fear of speaking to the public, or visit an office, and in that the course helped me a lot. Now I say 'permission to speak' and I say what I have to say. " Sonia agrees: "My life has changed in some respects, I have more facility with words, I no longer keep quiet, I lost the fear."

paths Lidia, Sonia Marthin and run in parallel. After the course became leaders of their community, and shortly thereafter was elected to political office-provincial trade union. "We have the right to land, law and policy, to make decisions. Now we work to empower women, going municipality by municipality so that they know the rights they have, "says Sonia.

Sonia I asked: "Where you see yourself in ten years? "Without hesitation replied," Minister of Justice. "