"Economic Development Projects - Roads to Remote Communities"

Constructing and Improving Roads and Airstrips

Road and Airstrip Construction: Lack of passable rural roads not only endangers public health; it also prevents farmers from transporting their produce to market. Mano a Mano uses its heavy duty equipment in partnership with rural municipalities to build new roads and improving marginal rural roads and pathways, creating solid gravel roads that can support truck transport. Community residents participate in these projects, using their picks and shovels to build and grade protective sidewalls, channels and culverts to re-direct water and prevent future road damage. Owning heavy equipment makes it possible for Mano a Mano to extend air service into these communities, as well.

RESULTS

Mano a Mano has improved 331 km of existing road (138 last year)
Mano a Mano has opened 99 km of new roads (47 last year).
As our Bolivian counterparts say, Mano a Mano accomplished these results with a few machines, little funding, minimal but devoted personnel built and ganas