{"id":196,"date":"2011-08-03T22:01:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T02:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/discoveriesofawanderer\/?p=196"},"modified":"2011-08-03T22:05:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T02:05:36","slug":"listening-to-the-voices-of-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/discoveriesofawanderer\/2011\/08\/listening-to-the-voices-of-bolivia.html","title":{"rendered":"Listening to the Voices of Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/discoveriesofawanderer\/files\/2011\/08\/MG_70931.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-199\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/288\/2011\/08\/MG_70931-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>What do Bolivians hope for when it comes to their communities and families? Check out\u00a0what ideas they&#8217;ve shared with me about the future!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High-quality health care for their children<\/li>\n<li>Stop and reverse child malnutrition in their communities<\/li>\n<li>Higher wages for the products they produce<\/li>\n<li>That their special needs children\u00a0are loved and treated well<\/li>\n<li>For Women&#8217;s Empowerment groups to continue to work towards gender equality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sound\u00a0familiar? The more I travel, the more I feel that people around the world are surprisingly alike.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.\u201d \u2013 Mark Twain<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small>Photo copyright 2011 Amy Conner for World Vision.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do Bolivians hope for when it comes to their communities and families? 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