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2018
(13 November) - We have been speaking with Abelardo, in Lima; his
mother, sisters and brothers in Trujillo: all are enjoying
good health. Abelaro has a job in construction, and has risen to
Team Leader of a small crew of reinforced concrete workers. He likes
his work but cannot advance further unles he learns to read engineering
drawings. We are checking trade schools in Lima and Trujillo. We
have a good relationship with such a school in Trujillo, and are
now looking into the prospect of his employer giving him leave to
come to Trujillo to upgrade his skills while spending some time
with his family.
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Abelardo
on the job
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Mother
and little brother
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Abelardo
also plays in Lima's Saturday Football League
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2018
(May)- Abelardo still in Lima, 1st Sister: resto.mgr, 2nd, 3rd
sisters: married moms.1&2 Bros: 1 works, 2 in good school.
Mom
just got her second micro
enterprise vending cart - she & younger
children + families: live in large apartment near the hospital
centre
2010 - Present: Abelardo
lives in Lima, and works as a mechanic.
2001 - 2009:
Abelardo was enrolled at Bruce Peru in Trujillo, Peru
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In 2001, while
expiramenting with ways to solve the huge socio economic problem
in Peru of having more than a quarter of its children go uneducated,
we opened a large soup kitchen for strreet children a few steps
from the main square. We would feed up to 300 children a on condition
they would agree to let us put them into school. One six year old,
Abelardo, would only come for breakfast, and then we would not see
him again until the next day. Abelardo was shy but polite. Always
had a
sad face.
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02.2002
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Street
Kids Centre
& School 2001
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One
of the university volunteers who supervised the children while they
cleaned their platers, reported that Abelardo cleaned his plate then
quickly filled a plastic bag from the garbage bin. When asked why
Abelardo seemed embarrassed, but would not answer. Then one day he
asked if one of the social workers could come look at his mother.
They walked for more than an hour because Abelardo could not give
an address for a taxi, he had only ever walked. At the poorest edge
of the barrio, Florencia de Mora she found Ablardo{s mother lying
on the ground beneath a torn plastic sheet stretched between two adobe
huts. She was weak with tuberculoses. |
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02.03
registering
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Abelardo
in school
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. For
a year Abelardo had been getting up at 4:AM and cleaning a carpenter's
workshop in exchange for the wood scraps. On his way home with them
he would collect garbage. With this his mother would cook a soup,
which was the staple meal for the family, which included Abelardo{s
three younger sisters and baby brother.. We got the family moved into
a small house and eventually the mother recovered. From then until
early this year we sent Abelardo home with a bag of food every day.
In 2005 his youngest sister also had to overcome TB |
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2004
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2006
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Abelardo
and his oldest sister attended our informal school attached to the
soup kitchen and in early 2003 we sponsored him in regular school:
the next year his sister, and so on until all the children are being
educated.
In 2008 Abelardo turned 14 , when he can legally work. He transferred
to night school and became a mechanics apprentice by day. |
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15
August 2007
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The
daily food run
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Of
Abelardo´s siblings the two older girls, Jener and Jocylen are
tuning out to be good students. We sponsor, uniform and supply with
school supplies. From time to time throughout the year we give new
clothes to all the children. We are pulling back a little from the
mother because some years ago she agreed as a conditions for our helping
her with her family that she would have no more children. |
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12.08
Video
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03.2009
carrying on
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2010
we loaned Abelardo´s mom enough to buy an egg business - a
snack cart. She has done well with it so far.
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Abelardo
works as an auto mechanic in Lima, sending money home - and his mom
earns the rest for her family from her egg cart. |
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