Federico Estol’s series gives glamour and respect to La Paz’s marginalised community, Financial Times: There are 3,000 shoe-shiners who go out into the streets of La Paz, the Bolivian capital, each day in search of clients. They are all ages and have become a unique phenomenon: what distinguishes this tribe is their use of ski…
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Coronavirus Is Fuelling Child Labour in Bolivia
Amy Booth reports for Vice News: More children will work to survive now that the government has paused the education system until 2021, say observers. A decision by Bolivia’s interim government to suspend the academic year due to the Covid-19 pandemic in one of the region’s most impoverished, rural nations promises to drive more children…
Shine on, Shine Heroes
BOLIVIA, DOCUMENTARY, FEDERICO ESTOL, LA PAZ, PHOTOBOOK Written by Hannah Abel-Hirsch for the British Journal of Photography: All images © Federico Estol. Federico Estol empowers the vilified shoeshiners of La Paz, Bolivia, turning their working lives into a fictional tale of superheroes This article was originally published in issue #7893 of British Journal of Photography. Visit the…
The Hovde Foundation Opens a New Hovde House in La Paz, Bolivia
Hovde Foundation through PRNewsWire.com: A Home for Girls and Teenagers Living in the Streets MADISON, Wis., Feb. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — In the area of Huajchilla, Bolivia, south of the city of La Paz, a new home named “Hovde House: Marta Bedoya de Claure” has opened its doors for thirty vulnerable girls and teenagers living in the streets. The construction of…
Bolivia is in Trump’s sights
El Diario reports: The State has been observed for the rights of workers; the age for child labor and human trafficking Through a journalistic note by Erick Foronda, sent to EL DIARIO, it was learned that two major setbacks were received by the Government of Bolivia in only 24 hours from the administration of President…
Another wrongdoing from evo: child labor …
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: It is public knowledge how badly evo treated his offspring … neglected responsibility and even went to jail for missing his responsibility to one of them … so, it is no surprise that out of demagogue he approves this horrendous law … he knows about governing like a duck understands to play…
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