March

Last of the Summer Fun
March is the final month of summer holidays here in the southern hemisphere and our children made the most of it - we took them to parks, rides, slides, playgrounds, and the swimming pool. Getting them into good or better schools has been our mission this month. With each success we've had to come up with the necessary for tuition, books, uniforms and supplies.

When they came to us some of our children were either not attending school at all or relegated to classes consigned to students on whom they have given up hope, merely fulfilling their legal obligation to keep them in school.

  Our friends at Intervida, the fine Spanish charity, have come through again, this time with powdered high protien breakefast drink. Thank you.
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  Whoever said summer school has to be boring. When Vilma's classes end the children don't want to leave. With a combination of tenderness, fun, a sock puppet and old fashion good teaching she makes them want to learn.
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  In March we helped Trujillo's Fire Department to become more computerized. Like us they are volunteers and deserve all the help they can get.
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  This year we observed the International Day of the Woman more quietly than our 600 woman march of last year. We invited a sellect number of women to selebrate with us and to participate in small forums hosted by our doctors, social worker and psychologist.





 

Pictured here is the last dress rehearsal of part of the ballet company's March production.
.On the night of the performance the Municipal Theatre was sold out. Although most of the numbers were presented by students and not professors or professional company members, as is normally the case, there were perhaps even more "Bravos"and standing ovations than usual. This is a testimony to the choreographic and production skills of Eusabio Rabines and his staff.

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Spring Cleaning at Bruce Perú
A group of our youngsters, under the direction of Junior - an alum who was reunited with his family last year, but who returns from time to time to participate with us - did a thorough spring cleaning of our little campus.

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Transitions
In March we received a number of new volunteers, mostly from Peru but also from Germany and the United States. Pictured here are Doris, a dental technician, and Vilma, our summer school for kindergarten students.

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