Good News from Peru, hope for homeless children
December 2002

Update: Shelter for pregnant adolescent rape victims
We now have the plans from our volunteer architect, Carolina Garcia Galvez, and we have begun construction of the adobe walls. We still urgently need help in order to purchase the materials for electricity, windows, doors, plumbing, roofs etc..

Until the kind hearted mayor of Delicias gave us this 900 square meter ocean front property, we were at a loss as to how to help these poor girls. Now our volunteer architect is desigining a Spanish mission style building, adobe walls and sheltered rooms surrounding a central garder; they will house residential, medical, dining, psycholiogical ,educational and workshop facilities. The isolated beach and softly breaking waves will provide therapy. The adobe bricks we will make ourselves, but for doors, windows, electricity and plumbing we will have to pray for donors.


 

We have completed our little dental clinic (free service to street kids)
..We have also built a small dental clinic on the premises (like the medical facility which opened last month), this one for the public spirited Dr. Lucho Vasquez Leiva (dentist), who comes three times a week to Bruce Peru; seeing to the dental needs of poor and abandoned children.

  Feast of Peruvian cuisine.
In support or our 15 abandoned mothers clubs we held "fiesta de platas tipicas". Each club brought a specialty of Peruvian cooking and the people of Trujillo were treated to some really great cuisine.
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  Young offenders come to work at Bruce Peru and we send out arobic instructors.
As part of our mission to help needy children we cooperate with a number of other institutions.
This month we employed several inmates from the juvenile home, graduates of our course in electricity there, to install our computer grounding system. We also provided fitness trainers to the largest girls Shelterin the area.
 

Chrismas parties galore
We held parties for our center city Street Children, a party for our great volunteers then sent out refreshments to parties for 500 more lovely street urchins. Once again, with presents and everything, we went way over our budget. Ah well, it only comes once a year.

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El Niño is coming, el niño is coming!!
Torrential rains and a tropical heat wave are slowly working their way down the west coast of South America: El Niño - it is about 100 miles north of Trujillo right now.
For this reason we have continued to build new roofs and repair old ones at the 15 properties where we feed abandoned children and mothers.

  This month everyone pitched in to raise money and collect things for the childrens parties.
Here Ana Terre makes chocolates to be sold in our cafe snack bar, Zaguan, and the nice lady Dra. Maite Pretell who donated all the refreshments for our oiwn children. We also want to give special thanks to Draguy Nestorovich, Panaria San Doval and Intervida.
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Transitions
This month we received another baby into the family. Carolina joined us to design the new alberge in Delicias. Tomame, out lovely Japonese volunteer passed through and enlivened our street kids. A wonderful nurse and dentist joined our team of volunteers. And Dra. Maite became the largest local auspiciadora of our children.

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Nati in December .............Nati in January........

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