This ministry is the major component of “La Palmera” CCC community work. Its main purpose is to defeat in the name of the Lord Jesus, ignorance and inequality of opportunities in a country highly marked by its poverty, social class and gender discrimination.

Initially, this ministry provided an opportunity for children attending the local public school to have access to educational reinforcement and encouragement in their schooling process. Schools in Bolivia suffer critical infrastructure needs and run under severe political struggles that perpetuate a vicious circle of educational mediocrity creating a horrendous rate of school desertion and national illiteracy that put Bolivia amongst the most educationally neglected country in the world.

This programme offered to children in primary school assistance in their school homework, access to small library of reference books, ludic educational activities, personal development assemblies, excursions and organized visits to places of interest.

The activities were planned in such a way that all families in the neighborhood interested in enrolling their children in the program will find it absolutely friendly. People in Bolivia are used to only four hours of schooling daily with boys attending in the morning and girls in the afternoon, and most families give their children lots of responsibilities at home that condition their development (i.e.: babysitting, housekeeping, washing & ironing, selling homemade produce in the streets, etc.). Therefore, we had a session in the morning for girls and another in the afternoon for boys. On Saturdays all of them came together in the morning for a special program 100% Christian & Bible centered aimed to provide to the children the larger picture of God’s plan for their lives thru schooling.

We promoted education for life instead of education for social status. We also committed ourselves to compensate for the historical marginalization of women from education in the Latin American society, by giving to girls a higher chance of succeeding in their schooling with our enthusiastic support. Another commitment we took was to provide to children the right to enjoy a minimum of 200 days of schooling yearly in a country where 100 days or less was acceptable due to the laboral conflicts of very poorly paid teachers.

These promotions and commitments led us to materialize a dream, our own school! With the assistance of Dr. Louvenia Gafney, a specialist on primary education from North Carolina, USA, and a young team of newly graduated educationalists from UK & USA, we launched this new project in 1996, initially providing education to children from 6-9 years old and upgrading each year our services until completing the full National requirements for Primary education, and with plans to develop a Secondary Section & Technical College.

Today, we provide primary education to 300 children from 5-14 years old and we are the only Evangelical private school in town free of cost for poor families, and with special services like textbooks, school lunch, camps & special events plus a schedule of 8 hours of schooling daily in a Christ-centred environment and with a Bible-based curricula.