Second Fundraiser - Aid for Bolivia, Food & Medical Equipment Covid-19

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We present to you the second fundraiser by Unidad Para Bolivia to provide food and essential needs to the most vulnerable people during the pandemic, and to provide biohazard equipment to support the medical personnel in Bolivia’s public health sector.  Unidad Para Bolivia is a movement characterized by nationwide and worldwide efforts to promote social and economic progress in Bolivia, to ensure the ultimate protection of people's rights, unity and understanding, and upmost respect of our democratic rule presently, and in the future. Unidad Para Bolivia is currently working to fulfill and expand its Humanitarian Aid Project given the immense necessity of food and essential needs due to the quarantine and pandemic, as well as the need for support to the collapsed health system in Bolivia. Thus far, the Humanitarian Aid Project has allowed Unidad Para Bolivia to acquire and distribute 15,000 kg of food products in family bags and communal pot kits, allowing for over 173,700 plates of food and helping approximately 27,500 people in need. UPB’s Humanitarian Aid Project has recently expanded to provide aid to the collapsed public health system in Bolivia. For this reason, $2,000 from donations were destined to buy 200 biohazard kits - including high-quality biohazard suits and face masks for medical personnel. These were donated in various public hospitals throughout the city of Santa Cruz, and three villages in the Beni Department – Guayaramerin, Santa Rosa, and Reyes. Unidad Para Bolivia expanded its efforts to provide aid to the hospitals in the Beni Department as this area became the second nucleus of infection and one of the most affected states in Bolivia, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Unidad Para Bolivia continues its expansion and maximization of efforts to provide aid to the most affected areas of Bolivia, and the people that are most in need. It is important to denote that Bolivia has the largest informal economy as a percentage of its total economy, according to the IMF, with a percentage surpassing 62.3%. For this reason, UPB’s founder saw the immense necessity to help this portion of the population that lives by the day, and she formed what is now UPB’s Humanitarian Aid Project. The quarantine imposed caused an immense impediment to an enormous portion of the population, particularly those that form part of the informal sector, making them extremely vulnerable due to not having the possibility to work and make the day-to-day minimum income they depend on for their and their family’s subsistence. The majority of these people have been completely limited in their resources, and therefore – in many cases – unable to access food and basic needs. Furthermore, the collapsed health system and the lack of funding in this sector has meant that much of the medical personnel is completely exposed, without the adequate gear to take care of Covid-19 patients with the necessary safety measures. With your donations and support, Unidad Para Bolivia wishes to continue providing food and essential needs to the most vulnerable families in Santa Cruz and the surrounding villages, as well as providing biohazard kits to the medical personnel that does not receive adequate and sufficient support from authorities. Furthermore, Unidad Para Bolivia's volunteers have been growing nationwide, bringing us closer to our goal of a nationwide expansion in order to bring aid to more people. Additionally, Unidad Para Bolivia is working to send aid to Oruro, Bolivia in the form of medical kits for volunteer doctors called the "Angeles Contra El Covid", who are in the front lines testing and helping coronavirus patients. UPB will send biosecurity kits and medical equipment to these volunteer doctors, each kit with a valuation of $500 dollars. Finally, we are working to provide face masks to the National Bolivian Police Force, as many in this sector have already lost their lives to the Covid-19 due to not having the adequate protective equipment as this is not sufficiently provided by authorities either. 

Help us to reach and fulfill more goals, help us to help more people, help us to continue supporting those that truly need any possible assistance in these difficult times. Become part of our humanitarian aid project!

United, for a better Bolivia.

Carolina Monroy Rosso Founder of “Unidad Para Bolivia”