This month we made all the preparations to open our new center in Cajamarca, Peru.
We have the property, a team of key volunteers, and in March will open our doors to the street children of this mountain community.
 After waiting for almost two years for promised properties to be turned over to us, we finally bight the bullet and rented our own property, right in the center of Cajamarca. It has enough space for a street kids dining area, an industrial kitchen, play rooms and class rooms enough for our educational programs for street kids and more; as well as ample sleeping facilities for ten resident volunteers Georg, carpenter, teacher and key volunteer, will soon be altering the interior to our needs, and Jean-Francois and Joannie, will arrive to oversee the opening of our program for street children in lovely mountain city of Cajamarca, Peru.
. Cajamarca street kids in the central square.


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The front of our rented property, Bruce with street kids.
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Joannie. Jean-Francois and Geog, our startup team.

Irma, who will join them as soon as we can train
a replacement for her in our Trujillo headquarters.

  SIX SUPER CANADIANS.
For nearly a year we received applications from Canadians who said they wanted to come to Peru and volunteer to help street children. "The Canadians are coming, the Canadians are coming", we thought, and waited. But they never turned up. Finally, at the turn of the year, just as we were giving up hope, six turned up within a few weeks. And from the enthusiasm and work they have contributed to helping the children, it almost appears the Canadian Government were gathering together their best people to send down to us.
 Amanda and Karla worked by day helping to build the Delicias Shelter for child rape victims, and by night as teacher; while Budd Roberto managed our free lunch program for two months and taught our most popular classes in the evenings.Martina created two lovely projects for the kids: a mural and a garden, then started preparing them to execute the projects while she raised the money to pay for them online. Jean-Francois and Joannie are going to supervise the opening and early operation of our Cajamarca program.		 ..
Our six Canadians last day together. Budd Roberto.- kid's favorite.
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Karla & Amanda's adobe factory, Martina's bus mural
 
Volunteer life at Bruce Peru,
February 2004. This month we celebrated yet another Christmas party, gave special medical and Dental attention to our children; and most of all it has been an all out push to recruit new street children who are not now in school, prepare them and begin to enroll them in Peruvian educational institutions. We received the most and some of the best new international volunteers ever, some of them long term, all now hard at work.
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The angels of February.
James and his friends back in Europe came through for the kids twice this month, once with a load of clothes, toys, games, gifts and school materials, and the second a large quantity of medicines of the types most needed by our street children. Emma, arrived from England with many pairs of children's shoes, then came Bob from the USA with even more children's shoes (even with all of this generosity, we never get enough shoes to satisfy the need). Amanda arrived from Spain with a fashionable and useful collection of children's clothes. Martina, who wanted to paint a large mural on the back wall of our little campus, not only designed it, recruited and trained the children to do the fainting, but even raised all the money to pay for both the mural and a garden to go in front of it - come see how she accomplished this: http://www.justgiving.com/PFP/colorforkids And her online appeal was so successful, there is enough left over to invite all the children for a day at a local swimming pool.


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Transitions
This month we received just as many new volunteers as last: Georg (Austria), Rianti (Indonesia) Cristian (Peru), Beth (Can) Veronica (Peru), Bob(US), Carla-Maria(Peru), Fiorella (Peru) Milagros (Peru), teresa (Peru)
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