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Bolivia: Aymara Microenterprises Provide Bread to Schools
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Published on 6 June 2012
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Bolivia: Aymara Microenterprises Provide Bread to Schools 1
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Bolivia: Aymara Microenterprises Provide Bread to Schools 1

Mamani Francisca prepares the bread dough.

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The mixture of barley, beans, amaranth and quinoa, with the addition of wheat flour that typically makes the bread product, have an improved nutritional value of the bread.

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Francisca shows the fortified biscuits made with various Andean grain flours. "We are proudest as micro entrepreneurs, because not only do we sow and harvest, but now we process food," she says 

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Partners of AMPACH make ​​bread.
 

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Members of AMPACH remove bread from the oven and place it on a rack to cool.

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Bread made with quinoa flour, highly nutritious Andean grain.

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Bread made with quinoa flour, highly nutritious Andean grain.

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Women from the Huacullani community eat cookies and breads in the bakery of AMPACH.

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