Photos 2013: Santa Cruz, Bolivia

We spent our last week in Bolivia in the sprawling city of Santa Cruz

Miriam with a T-shirt made in Santa Cruz

At the launch of a new church at Satélite Norte:
the children worked together to paint T-shirts

Demonstrating a camera to a Bolivian

The more organised team members had brought photos from home to show to Bolivian children...
the rest of us had to improvise

Miriam presented with a bunch of flowers

Our team was welcomed by the women's groups of churches in La Paz and Santa Cruz:
they do a lot of fundraising to support the churches' provision of food to children

A cathedral viewed through trees in a city square

Plaza 24 de Septiembre: the heart of the huge city of Santa Cruz is remarkably peaceful

A replica of the Statue of Liberty on the roof of a shopping centre

Yes, this really is Bolivia: the shopping centre is called the New York Mall

A street vendor carrying electrical accessories outside a shopping centre

A street vendor tries to make a living outside the shopping centre

A narrow stream running along a wide river bed

The Rio Pirai that flows around the outskirts of Santa Cruz
is reduced to a stream in the dry winter

Cows being driven along a wide dusty road

Road under contruction... and it's very dusty.
The road is being buit as part of a major expansion of the city

5 people standing and waving in the back of a truck

The team's last night in Bolivia: Bishop Raphael tries to pretend that
the unruly mob in the back of the truck is nothing to do with him

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