In our January Provincial Assembly, the communities of Ecuador and Bolivia were entrusted with the search for new missions in the Amazon, in the two countries mentioned above.
With enthusiasm, the two communities began the search, being very well received in the different places we visited. Concretely, Ana and Lola in Bolivia visited the Vicariate of Pando, after having had a virtual meeting with Bishop Eugenio Coter who presented us the reality and needs of the Vicariate and specifically of Porvenir and its rural communities, where he saw the greatest need for our presence.
With the desire to know the reality, we traveled to Cobija on April 22 and from there we moved to Porvenir where we met with the Bishop, the two priests of Cobija, a journalist who takes care of the parish and some local women. All of them presented us with different realities and problems that urgently need to be addressed: alternative education, human trafficking, youth reality, women’s groups, alternative medicine, health, accompaniment of indigenous communities…