San Marcos was the first SDA educational institution and 2nd church in Bolivia established in 1922. This September 9th will be our 95th year anniversary. Our school is a kindergarten-12th grade boarding school. We had 30 students in 2011-2013, then 60 and this year we have 80 students! We’re super busy. Summer music school is when we are full! In 2013-14 we had about 60 students, then 80, but the last two years we’ve had over 100!  Most students are from the local villages, but with dormitories we really need a dean, someone that can be a mother to them without the burden of having to teach classes.

Thanks to two large donations, we have a water-well down in the pampas on our own private property, but we still need to have the water piped to the school and a holding tank.

After 4 years, the bakery project is going kind of like we’d dreamed of. We began baking in the “anticuado” (Old Fashion) kitchen with a tiny 4 tray oven and delivering with a cart. Now we have a 32 tray brick oven, built by hand, and thanks to a donation, we deliver to 25 “tiendas” (shops/stores) on a motor tri-cycle with a cargo box. We also have the potential to sell to specialty “health food” stores in the city. We can’t keep up with the demand as people want San Marcos bread! We mix about 1500 lbs (700 kgs) of flour a week. We need a commercial mixer, divider/rounder, and 3-phase power.

OUR NEEDS: 
For the School
1. We need dedicated SDA teachers (not all our teachers are)
2. Dean (like a mother) for the dormitories
3. Kitchen helpers and builders
4. Water pipes to connect the school $16,000

For the Bakery
1. Commercial Mixer $16,000
2. Convection Oven $25,000
3. Divider/Rounder $25,000
4. 3-Phase Power $50,000
5. Sheet pans, racks, more “metro racks”– shelving, tables, etc. $15,000 

Dr. Willy Patty
School Coordinator 
Drwillyjpatty@gmail.com