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Volunteers
helping street children in Latin America
Bruce Peru (SOS
Peru) ong
With gratitude to: Kinder Zon, Rotary, Lyons, Saunder's, Camposol,
Howard's, Miller's, Delicias, d'Amecourt, Family Foundation, Kunstadter,
La Asuncion, Gordon's, Corbatita, UPAO, UNP. |
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Last Updated 18 March 2005
........Acknowledgements............To
view this web site in its original format go
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..New
New
Uniforms in Las Palmeras......................New
Uniforms in Porvenir
Throughout
Peru we have over the past months prepared and gotten 175 children
into school who would not be there had we not found them, fed
them, healed them, loved them and taught them. For they are
the poorest of the poor in their communities. We also support
over 100 children in school from our past year's efforts.
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 We recently opened our largest satellite centre anywhere -
in Trujillo. And Just in time too - for we only had a few weeks
to get all these children ready registered and in school, uniformed
and supplied. VISIT OUR
PORVENIR
CENTRE IN ALTA TRUJILLO
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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 childrenFull story 
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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
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2
out of 5 Peruvian children
not in school live in Lima
 17.03.05 Today we took
posession of our new Centre in Miraflores, Lima. Some of our
international volunteers will live here, and venture out in
the mornings to satellite centres in the barrios to serve Lima's
poorest chidren.
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15
March 2005
Restaurant Raveno |
We held our first
meeting of the Bruce Peru Lima task force, in the Restaurant
Roveno Tuesday night. The 13 participants include local
residents and international volunteers who will help launch
our Lima project.. |
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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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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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kids,
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come to us
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they are;
we
make of them
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they let us |
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