 We have just opened our largest satellite centre anywhere -
in Trujillo. And Just in time too - for we only have a few days to
get all these children ready and registered in school. We have about
a month more to get uniforms.Porvenir
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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 open
and functioning within the 'City' model of our program. Here are 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 this December. Trujillo is on target. Huaraz
is optemistic.Waiting for word from Cajamarca and Malabrigo. Total:
130 children
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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
each year, |
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2
out of 5 Peruvian children
not in school live in Lima
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With help from our
friends we will open our largest centre yet, Lima, this Spring. We
will send our volunteers out from there to satellite centres in the
barrios, and there they will help Lima's poorest children. APPLY
NOW |
Lima
Information We
are taking applications for volunteers to start in June.
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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
7 January 2005 |
Dr.
Maria Kunstadter, well known US Dentist (one of our Directors),
brought her children and a staff of other assistants to our
new Cajamarca 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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