The Centro Tata Esteban is a vocational school for the Quechua Indians in the Andes. The school is located in Tiraque in the province of Cochabamba at an altitude of 3’300m. It is the only vocational school in a vast area where 23’000 people live.

The school was started in 2003 by the Jesuits and has been expanded over the years. The curriculum lasts 4 years, catching up with missed basic education and learning a profession in construction, agriculture and stock breeding. 140 students live in a boarding school, 430 attend just school. In 2010 the school won the prize as the “Best Alternative Education Center in the country” from the Education Ministry of Bolivia.

We made an initial investment in June 2010 and another one in 2011. After a visit to the school in 2012 we learnt that the Government wanted to have stronger influence over the school and restructure it. We then decided to stop our involvement.

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