News from Bruce Peru, NEWS OF PERU, hope for homeless children
May
Work/Study Program
Following new legislation the Police now forbid shoeshine boys to work in the city's main square. The poor children keep trying to work but the police chase them away. We seized this opportunity to invite the boys to work at our place (only a hundred meters from the main square), on condition that they study for half a day and work half a day. We have been trying for two years to get these particular kids into educational programs - some have entered then dropped out. Now they are really studying.

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Theatrical/Musical Extravaganza
and an "Educational Revolution"
We are in the process of launching a campaign to break the trend of child labor in Peru. It begins with a theatrical presentation with a message and continues with a mass campaign to enroll child laborers in educational programs. Come see what we have prepared so far.
  Certificates of completion for the basic part of the computer course for our children. Pictured here are five of the first eight to complete this part of the program. Eventually some of them will befome webmasters.

  Final rehersals for the next presentation of the dance academy: to be performed in the Municipal Theatre. "La Totora y el Wachaque" is an original work. The dance company will also participate in our extravaganza. "Arriba Ya!", to be performed in the 7,000 seat colesium in August.
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  The students of the Psychiatric Department of UPAO University spent part of a day with us, and concluded by giving us lots of good food stuff to feed the children. We and the children were overwhelmed by their spontaneous generocity and their good spirit. Some of them will also participate in our Saturday festivals, beginning the 7th of June, when we will bring in groups of child and adolescent drug adicts who are lioving on the street. We will feed them, offer clothes, showers, medical, dental, psychological, social services as well as sports and prizes. The object is to get them into closed institutions where they can be cured and looked after until they are able to return to society.

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 We honored five outstanding mothers. This year we celebrated Mother's Day with our regular mothers; a meal, entertainment, prizes, and five of them were honored as outstanding mothers.
They are the mothers whose children, though extremely poor and needing to work to help support their single parent family, yet go to school and do well in their studies. We gave them canastas filled with food stuffs, household items and school materials for the children. We did our best to hold them up as examples to the other mothers, whose children are not faring so well because they are made to work most of every day. 		..
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Transitions
This month we began staffing up in preparation for the coming demands of the "Arriba Ya!" project: and we welcome to our ranks: Zoila (Dir. Social Services), Natali (registered nurse),George (IT), Cesar (carpenter), Mirian (literacy teacher), Manon (English teacher), Sandra (social assistant).

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