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street kids and child laborers into school, NOW.
This month we reaped the harvest of our work since January. The street children and child laborers we have been pulling in from the streets week by week - feeding, persuading of the value of an education, tutoring, medicating and loving - have taken the leap. We enrolled them in classes, bought their uniforms, books and supplies: and now they are attending school half a day and coming to us for meals, tutoring and support. The hardest part is done, yet, in a sense our work has just begun; for we will need to help them stay in school, and for those who have a family (usually a single mother), we will often need to help her find an alternative income to replace what her children no longer bring in. |
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unsung heroines. Ana Tere, our President for the past two years, usually runs things from the background, directing our Peruvian volunteers, overseeing our relationship with vendors, the community and the Government. Whenever we need to do something in another part of the country, she usually knows someone there and manages to open all the right doors - as in Cajamarca. Meghann, our longest serving international volunteer (after Bruce), has quietly organized the Language Academy so that it now offsets a good part of our operating cost. She is also the coordinator of 'Hachamama'., our program for poor women. When Ana Tere agreed to help Bruce "with his street kids", it was on the understanding that Bruce would also help her in her work for abused and abandoned animals (for she is either cofounder, officer or director of most of the animal rescue leagues in these parts). But she has been kept so busy dealing with our children's needs these past three years that she has seldom found time to ask Bruce for help; except every now and then on weekends. Meghann lived through a major reorganization, when we decided to stop feeding all the poor children in town and concentrate only on those who wanted to get an education - this decision discouraged a number of our volunteers, but Meghann stuck with us: until the merit of our change was born out in the good it is doing for the children. We salute you, Ana Tere and Meghann. |
 .. Ana Tere's lemon pie parties ........Meghann organizing a schedule  .. Ana Tere , Antonio with street kids Meghann with our street kids. |
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| Volunteer life at Bruce Peru, March 2004. It was a good month at Bruce Peru: we opened Cajamarca, got our current batch of children into school and received some really positive volunteers. Emma brought her organizational skills, Catherine, her contagious love of children and equally contagious good nature, Berangere, fell in love and decided to take some of our volunteers away with her; Antonio, brings years in organizing and directing social programs in his native Portugal to his new post as our volunteer coordinator, Peter, his specialty in children's medicine, treated our children both in Trujillo and Cajamarca; Tabby is a constant companion to the children and always ready to shoulder the work in feeding and teaching; Elco liked our language academy so much he decided to take our course material, some of our teachers and students: and start his own, Chantelle brought her professional fund raising experience to our aid, and continues helping from afar; Lisa has brought her good teaching and child minding skills from Sweden, Nina, her intelligent, warm, diligent help on several projects, and Clif, his critical eye, good ideas and hard work. |
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