Abandoned children, abandoned mothers receive help from BRUCE PERU, a new approach to saving the homeless

	News from Bruce Peru, NEWS OF PERU, hope for homeless children August War on cancer, Trujillo We held our first free clinic for abandoned mothers at our campus in central Trujillo, including clases in prevention and examinations by an obstetition.... Mothers came from our 15 mothers clubs and more will return on forthcoming week ends..	.. ..
	Eight new orphans join Albergue Nicole D'Amecourt Under an accord with the National Foundation for Children, Peru, we accepted 8 children who are too old for adoption (ages 13 - 17). We are finding them well behaved and eager to learn. We have until they are 18 to prepare them for life on their own. We are already teaching them to manufacture decorative items for sale, as well as cooking, computers, English, music and civic skills.August 2002	. Pictured here are 6 of the 8
	Our Aqua Culture project Thanks to Sra. Julia Larco Castro and Floyd Jones, Bruce Peru is about to begin raising fish to feed to our hungry children.... August 2002 Tilapia is an African breed which grows rapidly in aquacultire. We will begin with 8,000 which hopefully will convert to 7 to 8 tons of fish by early next year. We expect this to provide fish three times a week to our 15 clubs, plus to sell enough to pay the next crop.	.. Tilapia.......... Our fish farm
	Night at the Ballet Eusebio, ex-street kid turned ballet dancer and master instructor presented the students of our academy yet again at the Municipal Theatre.... 21 August 2002 The troup of the academy, Vision of the Dance, is made up of street kids, students and professional dancers. They performed Peter and the Wolf and a number of cameo pieces.
	The return of Floyd Jones Our friend and supporter Floyd Jones came in late August to distribute gifts to the children at several of our "Restauraunts Corazonizon". He also is helping us with the fish farm. He also turned the heads of a few of the local beauties.	.
	The day the earthquake came to lunch A mild earthquake visited four of our "restaurants" in early august. By the end of the month we had new roofs on two and had almost completed repair work on the other two. No one was hurt.
	Our new shop We have tought a group of abandoned mothers to make a range of hand made products to sell in shops and to the tourist market. They have been working away and now have a large stock of items to sell. To help them market their products we have opened a small shop.	..
	Latest exposition of tipical Peruvian cuisine. In order to help the mothers who attended the cancer examination we also held a "Fiesta de Platas Tipicas" and lent them the ingredients so they could sell their cooking to pay the cost of transportation from the barrios to our campus in the center of town (most are so poor they would not otherwise have been able to come). Every plate was sold.	..
	Transitions Our friend and helpful IT volunteer Jose has taken a job in Mexico - we miss him. In compensation we have received some great new volunteers: Cristian, Jerusa, Veronica, Dora and Alexandro, Ruby. .	.. ...