Bridges to Prosperity Changes Lives, One Village at a Time

摘要

Just my luck that the first international board meeting I attended for Bridges to Prosperity included the opening ceremonies of the Siquipampa pedestrian bridge at 11,500 ft in the Central Cordillera Tunari mountains of Bolivia. Attending involved a challenging descent down a dirt path with a 700-ft vertical drop-and the breath-gasping climb back out. The bridges are always remote but rarely so high. The 600 village residents are periodically entirely cut off from their school and the outside world. What was a rippling stream on the June afternoon of my visit turns into a raging river during the rainy season from November to March.