Au nom du Père et des Indiens

A redemptory missionary, Father Martin Baur arrived in Bolivia in 1938. For 20 years, this priest with origins in Alsace in France traced a path across the most isolated parts of the country. On a mule's back or by dugout canoe, he went to see and to help the Pampa Indians such as those of Cordilliera in the Andes or on the shores of lake Titicaca.
A man of action, and not just of the good word, he built everywhere he went : be it churches, schools or irrigation canals. Then he arrived in Fatima, in 1958. There, in the middle of the Amazonian forest, he decided to make his dream a reality ; to build where no other had succeeded, a huge mission on Chiman territory. 37 years later, his work speaks for itself. 70 families live close to the mission and every morning around 60 children come out of the forest to attend the school, to learn how to read and write under the direction of Chiman tutors trained by "Father Martin". Around the mission are a church, a hospital, workshops and stables...