Our work in Cochabamba, Bolivia, started in 2014 when April Havlin visited and saw a great need. April and a team of volunteers from the local church began visiting brothels in the city and surrounding towns, inviting the women there to an evangelistic event. Women came to know Christ and their lives were transformed.

From 2014 to 2019, the House of Hope vocational program taught women how to make a large variety of baked goods, which they sold at the church for dignified income. The volunteers continued to evangelize in the brothels. Three to five times a year, new women were invited to join the program at evangelistic teas. In 2017 the women began gathering for a community group at House of Hope to worship and study scripture.

 

In 2019 the girls' home was started. Kathy Cuellar, a trafficking survivor who came to know Christ at one of the evangelistic events, is now the Onsite Director for the girls home. During the pandemic we were only able to minister to the residents in the home. In 2023 our emphasis began to shift from working with older teenagers and young adults to include the small girls in the nearby village.