Carlos Gutierrez and his mother Angela Poma look at a smartphone after learning how to use it for virtual home schooling, during the COVID-19 outbreak, in El Alto, Bolivia July 12, 2021.

Working in Bolivia's mines is a family business. That's what Italian photographer Simone Francescangeli saw when he traveled to the city of Potosí of about 250,000 to document the daily lives of ...

A project conceived to spark the imagination of disadvantaged children and help them explore the arts and themselves is bringing joy to the streets of Bolivia. Brooklyn, New York-based artist Robert ...

In Bolivia, more than 1,400 children are currently living with their parents behind bars in that country’s prisons. Officials and some parents say that given the alternatives, it might be for the best ...

Bolivia passed a law Thursday authorizing children to work from age 10, saying the rule is necessary due to realities in the impoverished country where kids join the labor market prematurely. The ...

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