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Bolivia - Village communities open up their doors
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Discovering Bolivian villages by talking with its inhabitants and forgetting one’s position of “tourist with a lot of money”, promoting a complementary economy to that of agriculture for Bolivian communities: in 2008, over 400 tourists chose to travel on one of the 18 tours that Tusoco, a Bolivian solidarity tourism network, now offers.
Julie Forissier, a volunteer from Frères des Hommes with Tusoco in Bolivia, shares the experience of Albert with us. Albert did one of these tours and shared the daily lives of the communities of Huari Pucara and Qori Mayu de Altamachi for two weeks: “This traveller is the only foreign visitor this community has seen in a year. He worked in the fields with them, shared their living conditions and walked from village to village for two weeks. This is the most beautiful thing that can happen in community solidarity tourism: building friendships between people who seem to belong to different worlds, as well as the solidarity that comes from friendship and enables development.” For the local communities, it is a chance to develop economical activity and thus enable their families to escape poverty.
Update: Wednesday 22 April 2009
