Our Newest center, in the high Andean city of Huaraz, is now open. Thanks to the creative toil of our founding volunteers (especially Bart, with Georg in support), we now are ready to receive the poorest children from the streets of Huaraz (by the end of the first week we are serving 33 children). These children are in even more distress than those we help in our other centers - it freezes at night in Huaraz, and many of them sleep barefoot on the pavement. Our mission is to get child laborers and street kids off the street and into school. More information about the center can be found
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Entrance, Huaraz Center....Founding Volunteers Huaraz
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.............Bart................... Huaraz cityscap... Feeding first children

Record of Emma Bonar at Bruce Peru: When Emma Bonar arrived from Ireland early this spring , claiming to have a degree in Child Psychology and having taught in a school in Korea, we were prepared to give her more responsibilities than other volunteers. What we soon discovered was that Emma also possessed a natural ability to organize and gain the support of other volunteers. Emma began in Trujillo, quietly fitting in to the daily routine. Her good ideas and natural leadership soon led to her becoming volunteer coordinator, then volunteer team leader.She quickly organized things for the better. Next she was sent to Cajamarca, as director..Again, she soon had things ticking over smoothly, and our volunteers there became very attached to her. If there was any shortcoming in her work with Bruce Peru the institution it was that , like Duncan before her, she tended to get the volunteers under her direction to identify more with her personally than with the institution. In fairness she did say from the outset that one of her objectives in coming to volunteer with us was to learn how to run her own NGO. Just one of the vicissitudes of being a volunteer run organization.

Good-bye dear Cat
For the past few months Catherine Moran (our dear "Cat") has been the life of the he party at Bruce Peru. Always singing, dancing, playing (fortunately she has a beautiful voice), her good humor was unsinkable,no matter what the circumstances. She has some infection that makes her constantly happy,and wherever she is everyone around her catches the same infection. Now that she's leaving - don't know what we will do for fun. Hope Georg stays for awhile longer, he seems to have the same disease - always laughing and enjoying life.
Some people are surprised to discover that there is a serious side to Cat: she is a very good teacher, excellent with children; and, she has just completed a stint as director of our Cajamarca Center - which responsibility she executed wonderfully. Bye Cat

Recent Angles
Sara arrived from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvnia with loads of great things for the children, clothes, toys, gifts, learning materials; and perhaps most generously, a good laptop for the new office at our center in Huaraz. Thank you very much Sara.
Shannon, got in from Canada loaded with all sorts of supplies and learning materials for our children, as well as some very nice children's clothes - including designer sport shoes. She and her gifts were immediately whisked off to Huaraz, where she will spend her volunteer term with us helping the very poor children of that delightful little city.
Tania has just come from France with lots more good things for our children, and now she too has gone to Huaraz, to help the children and to teach French in our new Huaraz language academy.

Transitions
We will no longer display here a photo of every arriving volunteer. In May and June we received nearly 30 new international, 10 new Peruvian volunteers - and we will need to double this rate of intake if we are to meet our goal of opening a new Street Childrens' Center in a different Latin American city every three months.


Euan, Evelyn and Fernando: helping in Cajamarca
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