
Eloy Anello passed away in October 2009
His obituary can be found Here.
Eloy lived in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, beginning in the early 1970’s. He was the leader of a group that included his brother Francisco Anello, which founded Unversidad Nur in 1985, a private university in Santa Cruz based on the universal principles of the Baha’i faith.
Nur University was the first to provide extended education for women and teachers in the villages in the jungles and mountains of Bolivia. Eloy was instrumental in developing a program based on the concept of moral leadership that has become part of the curriculum of the university. In his formulation of the concept, moral leadership is based on service to one’s community and promoting the well-being of the whole community.
Eloy combined the concept of moral leadership with his belief in the efficacy of a distance-education mode of teacher training for rural teachers in Bolivia. The goal was to produce teachers who also acted as effective community development agents. His dissertation at CIE analyzed the program in Bolivia and its impact on local community leaders. Eloy returned to Bolivia after finishing his doctorate and continued his leadership role at Nur University.
In 2001 Nur University was awarded a USAID-funded contract to train 700 rural primary school teachers in Bolivia using a distance-education model that incorporated the key components of moral leadership. Eloy was President of Nur University at the time and was responsible for the contract. [11-09]
Eloy authored and co-authored a series of books on leadership and community development including:
- Liderazgo Moral
- Guía para Diseñar Proyectos Comunitarios: Paso a Paso
- Transformative Leadership: Developing the Hidden Dimension
- NGOs In Latin America: Issues and Characteristics of NGOs Involved in Development (published by CIE)