{"id":305880,"date":"2018-02-09T01:10:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/bolivia-they-believed-in-me\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:36:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:36:24","slug":"bolivia-they-believed-in-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/bolivia-they-believed-in-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia: They believed in me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2018-02-06-PHOTO-00000544\"<\/strong>My family is composed of me, my sister and my mother who raised us on her own. We went through some very critical moments. My mother tried hard to find work. Then there was some friction with the landlady, because we didn\u2019t have money for the rent. It was quite a heavy cross for my mother to manage the little money she earned. Therefore, the support we received through the Focolare Movement\u2019s New Families Association was very important. Then the Centro Rinc\u00f3n de Luz<\/em><\/strong> was opened on the south side of our city, Cochabamba, in which scholastic support was being offered ever day, along with a hot meal, to children and teenagers who attended the local school. That centre was a huge help to me. It made me smile again and gave me some important formation. We were like one big family where our teachers were often like second parents. Thanks to the people who had faith in me, I can proudly say that I completed my course of study with good results and am in my first semester of university.I\u2019ll soon be a professional, and \u00a0I\u2019ll try to extend some of the help I received to the to the children who are now at the centre. \"2018-02-08-PHOTO-00000552\"<\/strong>I\u2019d also like to open a place for the people who live on the streets, helping them to find a way forward. I now know that you can change the life of a child and point him or her in the direction of a better life.<\/em> That\u2019s why I\u2019m asking everybody to help: Together we can do it! In my case, the most important thing wasn\u2019t just the financial support, but the faith they had in me, which has been a seed of hope, a spark of light that\u2019s lit not only in the children, but also in their parents. Source: Teens <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Anniversary_logo\"The testimony of Miriam: Assisted with her studies at a community centre run by the Focolare, she decided to return the favour by helping others, especially children who are going through problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}