Activities Sponsored by Tahuichi

On Site at the Academy

The Tahuichi Academy is organized during the Bolivian school year around daily sessions, offered twice a day. Children who attend school in the morning come for training after lunch; those who attend school in the afternoon come for training in the morning. (Public schools in Bolivia are divided into two shifts, with children attending just one of them.) Tahuichi moves to longer daily programs during school vacation periods. Approximately 3,500 children, ages 3 to 20, are enrolled in Tahuichi, with the vast majority on full scholarship (paying nothing) and the remainder only paying about $10 a month.

Socio-cultural Support of Children

--Free medical and dental assistance
--Nutritional supplementation for approximately 300 young players who engage in elite competition
--Weekly TV and radio programs prepared by the Tahuichi Media Center. See Tahuichi Media.
--Participation in the Santa Cruz International Expo each September
--Sports and Society Week each May
--Scholarship programs for English-language education
--Educational sessions, covering the psychological, motivational, and group dynamic aspects of sports and life in general
--Annual Christmas party and Tahuichi-sponsored Christmas card contest for children

--Support of the local city soccer program by fielding 17 Tahuichi teams in the city league

--Promotion of local, regional and national tournaments throughout the year to encourage Bolivian children to embrace physical fitness and to encourage parental interest and involvement

--National tours of Tahuichi´s elite teams under the banner of "Yes to sports, no to drugs".

Participation in International Competitions

World Forums

--Participation in the Congress of Children of the Earth, sponsored by the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, 1994
--Sports Against Drugs, a conference sponsored by the International Olympic Committee in Rome, Italy, 1996
--Tahuichi was "Ambassador of American Youth" at a conference of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the Summit of the Americas conference in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 1996
--Latin-American and Caribbean Youth Congress, sponsored by the OAS in Mexico, 1993
--World Youth Leadership Training Summit in New York City in 1995
--First World Youth Drug Prevention Forum in Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1998
--Conference on Sports for the Prevention of Drug Abuse in Rome, Italy, 2001 (UNDCP sponsored)

Latin American Society for Youth Sports Medicine

The Latin American Society for Youth Sport Medicine, under the leadership of Dr. Jorge Flores, held the First World Medical Seminar on Youth Sports in 1996, with the participation of the medical staff for each of the participating teams in the Mundialito Tahuichi Paz y Unidad (the annual Tahuichi Youth World Cup for Peace and Unity). The conference covered the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of sports injuries, as well as such topics as self-confidence and motivation in the young athlete.

Statistics

Tahuichi teams on the road, in kilometers traveled

By air, 1,349,273
By land, 62,000
By sea, 224,079

Total: 158,1204 km.

Times around the world: 39,5

Titles won by Tahuichi

See historical review of competitions

National select team players

In the Bolivian Professional Soccer League more than 200 Tahuichis have played in almost all the national soccer clubs as well as in the national select teams: