The Arkansas-East Bolivia partnership began in 1965 and is one of the most active and successful of all the partnerships. The diverse professional and volunteer expertise of Arkansas and East Bolivia makes participation in activities fun as well as fulfilling. 
 
In the early years of Partners in Arkansas, the primary exchanges had been from a group of Little Rock doctors, dentists, and other health professional, with their Bolivian counterparts. Now the organization links Little Rock and Fayetteville under a common program of interest with a united Board of Directors and with others throughout the state. A similar arrangement is in place in East Bolivia, with organized groups in Santa Cruz, Trinidad in the Beni, and Cobija in Pando.  
 
In the words of John F. Kennedy, considered to be the founding father of Partners: "The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men."