CCJ at La Paz is a home for orphaned boys ages 5-18, offering them shelter, proper clothing, comprehensive nutrition, as well as medical and dental aid. All CCJ locations have implemented a milk program addressing the children’s nutritional needs, which often are seriously deficient. Our school curriculum includes physical and nutritional education, so the children can lead healthy lives well after graduation.
All CCJ programs offer comprehensive academic curriculums, which include mathematics, language arts, science, and history. We are present as administration and staff of schools in these Bolivian cities and villages: LaPaz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, San Ignacio de Velasco, and San Migulito. At these four locations, we educate over 3,000 children between ages 5-18 each class day!
We provide the children opportunities to practice trades including: carpentry, welding, baking, pottery, sewing and agriculture. This training has dual purposes preparing the youngsters with marketable skills, as well as providing the City a degree of self-sustenance from use or sale of food & goods that the children produce. In the monastic tradition of the Church the children learn to build community, to build a home they call their own.
Santa Cruz residents helped the Idente Missionaries build a church for their parish of St. Peter and St. Paul. We also serve five out-post churches, or “chapels,” as they’re called, that are also part of the parish. St. Peter and St. Paul Church is adjacent to a school and medical facility, which were also built by the missionaries. The medical building incorporates three examination rooms, a dental operating room, plus four rooms for overnight patients. The missionaries also administer many other churches and parishes in Bolivia which provide support and activities for local city and village peoples.