The Educational Unity Pinocchio School (U. E. Pinocho) in the Bolivian Pantanal has around 400 pupils between the ages of 5 and 13. The school is located in Puerto Quijarro, a town of approx. 12000 inhabitants on the Bolivian side of the Bolivia/Brazil border, just south of Puerto Suarez.
Pinocho is a public school and many of the children that attend come from families where parents must work all day to provide basic needs such as food and housing. Many of the children also work before or after school and as such their education often suffers or is cut short. Our objective is to further the education of these children, who come from many corners of our country, and strengthen, beyond the scope of our education ministry’s current curriculum, to help develop their knowledge with support from other people, countries and cultures.
http://www.volunteersouthamerica.net/Pinocho/pin_index.htm
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