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Volunteers
helping street children in Latin America
With gratitude
to: Kinder Zon, Rotary, Lyons, Saunder's, Camposol, Howard's, Miller's,
Delicias, d'Amecourt, Family Foundation, Kunstadter, La Asuncion,
Gordon's, Corbatita, UPAO, UPN,
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Last Update 26 May 2008  ...........FLASHES
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Where
are they now?
.24 May
Since opening our programme to educate
street children in Latin America [2000 - Panama, 2001
- Peru etc.] we have gotten 3,006 children into schools..
Currently over two thousand street kids are in our Latin
America programmes. We found each child, started him in
one of our little shanty schools, caught him up with children
who had been in school all along. Finally we enroll them
in state school & sponsor them for two years.
But what becomes of them when we finally let go?
Eighty
per cent stay in school
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Here is a photo account of one group of our children
taken
over 2 years.
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have been 162 such groups
First day with us: 15 Feb. 2005 |
Last day with us: 23 May. 2007 |
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We
salute our Volunteers who keep returning
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(While
many others still work with us in their home countries)
When we started our volunteer program we didn't
dream so many kind talented people would take up
the challenge of aiding Peru's poorest children
as their own personal project. Thank you all. |
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  ..New New Uniforms in Las
Palmeras......................New
Uniforms in Porvenir
Throughout Peru we
have over the past months prepared and gotten 175 children
into school who would not be there had we not found them,
fed them, healed them, loved them and taught them. For
they are the poorest of the poor in their communities.
We also support over 100 children in school from our past
year's efforts.
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 We recently opened
our largest satellite centre anywhere - in Trujillo. And
Just in time too - for we only had a few weeks to get
all these children ready registered and in school, uniformed
and supplied. PORVENIR, ALTA TRUJILLO
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 For more than 2 years
we have been preparing for and fretting over our project
to help pregnant at-risk teens, and finally - in January
- we got it off the ground. Now it flies.
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 Our long awaited centre in Cusco,
is now is finally open, and is functioning successfully
within the "City"model of our programme. Here
are some of the founding volunteers.
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  ...Las Palmeras Children's
Centre................Recruiting not-in-school
children
We have progressed apace in the 'Las Palmeras' project,
and now are able to open a Children's Centre in their
community 1.05.
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Very poor children
being prepared to enter school for the first time.We have given each centre a target of how
many children we hope to prepare and register for school
by next March. Trujillo is on target. Huaraz is optemistic.With
new Cajamarca, Chiclayo, Cusco and Lima. Total Children expected:
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Our campaign: "DON'T
FEEL SORRY FOR STREET CHILDREN!" is beginning to pick
up momentum in centres where lots of international tourists
are encountering Peru's child laborers on
a daily basis.The object of the campaign is to recruit
volunteers from the tourist population who visit Peru
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Many of them will still go to bed hungry tonight.
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Every
Child has the right to free Education [but 26% of
Peru's Kids don't receive it.]
We are honoured and grateful so many talented, motivated
people join the campaign. |
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| Our campaign to get the National
Government of Peru to recognise the large population of
Peruvian children who are not receiving education, and
to do something effective to get these children educated.
[We are offering our own successful progects as one example]
has been launched! |
 In August we succeeded
in enrolling all 27 children of our Las Palmeras satellite
centre into the local state school. This was a unique
accomplishment in view of the facts: it was mid
term, we only had a few months to prepare them, all entered
into grades near to where they would have been had they
been regularly attending school all these years. We congratulate
the teachers and Volunteers who have workd so hard at
Bruce Peru Palmeras ! |
2 out of 5 Peruvian children not in
school live in Lima
 17.03.05 Today we
took posession of our new Centre in Miraflores, Lima.
Some of our international volunteers will live here, and
venture out in the mornings to satellite centres in the
barrios to serve Lima's poorest chidren.
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This month we
opened 3 new Schools -
Trujillo (Alta Esperanza
& Esperanza),
Chiclayo/Lambayeque
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Birth of 'Bruce
Lima'
Restaurant Raveno |
We held our
first meeting of the Bruce Peru Lima task force,
in the Restaurant Roveno Tuesday night. The 13 participants
include local residents and international volunteers
who will help launch our Lima project.. |
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In January
we opened a children's centre at the City Hall of
Las Delicias. We open with 19 of the poorest children
we have found so far.
Here are the founding volunteers |
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Full story
Dental |
Dr. Maria Kunstadter,
well known US Dentist (one of our Directors), brought
her children and a staff of other assistants went
to what was then our new Mountain Centre. They managed
to treat nearly 100 children at a one day clinic. |
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Full story
 Our satellite projects send Bruce Peru volunteers into
the most deprived barrios
where the poorest children
live. Local volunteers are helping. The first two satellite
centres are here, Cerro Pesqueda, and La Esperanza. On
Monday 08 November, this barren brick building - without
water or electricity (kindly made available to us by the
Mayor of Pesqueda) - was converted into a three classroom
mini school. Here 27 unschooled children were waiting
for us to begin preparing them for school. |
Full story
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City festivals
in Cusco and Trujillo unite our children.
About 50 children from our 3 schools in Cusco and 200
from our 7 in Trujillo came together at
separate festivals for games, competitions, sports, singing,
dancing, prizes and lots of refreshments. No one went
home empty. |
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