Volunteers helping street children in Latin America
Bruce Peru - S.O.S Peru
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Last Updated 22 May 2005 News Archives of Bruce Peru and our Volunteers .......FLASHES ...........To view this web site in its original format go HERE
Our teacher to pupil ratio (including teacher's assistants) is 1 to 6, which may explain why our children - though hugely disadvantaged emotionally and psychologically - are progressing more rapidly than normal children in normal state schools. [state schools :1 to 30]
Satellite shanty town schools educate children who could not get into state schools January through March (the Summer break in this Hemisphere) we work with children young enough to enter first or second grade. The rest of the year - like now - we educate children too poor, abandoned or too old to get into regular school. Right now in Peru we have 14 full time centres, 6 part time centres and are just opening another 6 full time centres to educate these dear children.
Bruce Peru's lproject to help pregnant adolescents We now have 14 at-risk pregnant teens in our 'Chuka' programme. Some are rape victims. Our first task is to get them to love themseves, then to love the life that is growing inside them.We are delighted to report: all is progressing well.
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Volunteer life at Bruce Peru's Volunteer Life at Bruce Peru - Photos of volunteers who have served or are serving at the various centres of Bruce Peru. Also photos of some of our children in class, at play.
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Our artistic volunteers in Lima find new ways to annimate our students Orohan girls in Chiclayo helped by Bruce Peru volunteers
Puppet show in Lima
Bruce San Sebastian Vs Bruce Santiago in basketball Sports day in Bruce Peru Huaraz
Bruce Peru children studying to be ready to enter school
January through March (summer holiday down here) we prepare 5 and 6 year old children - those who are so poor, abandoned or abused they would not be able to go to school if we don' find and help them..We give each centre a target of how many children we expect them to get into school. For March 2006 the target will be 350 - 400 children.		 Our "DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR STREET CHILDREN" icampaign s catching on.
Our campaign: "DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR STREET CHILDREN!" is still working 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 each year,
Follow up is paying off for Bruce Peru kids already in school
18 May 2005
' Bruce Peru Club' Palmeras
To continue supporting the children we got into regular school a few months ago, we visit them regularly - with their school's permission - to hold a festive 'club' meeting, help with their studies, reinforce our love.
Note: So far all 185 children we enrolled, none of whom were bound for school before we found them, are still attending. One boy in Cusco has even been voted best student in his entire school, another, in Trujillo is a maths genius.
New Bruce Peru Centre, Miraflores, Lima, Peru 29 April: Today we received a visit from our partners in the Lima programme, Marc Zwaaneveld, founder and Chairman of Kinder Zon, and his son Carsten, from the Netherlands. One day with our volunteers and they are now part of the family. We are already plotting more ways to collaborate.
Bruce Peru opens to help the poor children if Chiclayo We are in the process of opening our programme for very poor children in the city of Chiclayo. Only a 3 hour trip from Trujillo, we are already starting satellite centres there, even before we have settled on a city centre campus..
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The suffering of our children does not make the evening news Our children were not in the Tsunami (though one of our volunteers survived it).This is a parabole - In the same way the Tsunami captured the news headlines and the whole world got involved, yet the same number of lives are lose each week to starvation: which goes unreported: so it is with our chidren. The whole world knows about "street children", most people have seen them - if only on TV - and there are NGO's set up to help (though of course they need lots more than this). The category of children we serve far outnumbers those who live in the street, and they are almost as badly off. So why does the world not know about them? Because they sleep under plastic or in a woven mat shelter in utter poverty with uncaring or abusive parents - they must find their own food, get their own clothes; they don't go to school: they are abandoned in their own homes. That's why the world does not know about them. But we know they are there, that they suffer, and we have come to find them, to help.
Won't you join us!.
Paying homage to some recent volunteers at Bruce Peru Celebrating the contribution special volunteers have made to the poor children of peru. Our program is beeing led by a team of talented dedicated and fun volunteers. In the next update we hope to be able to include more volunteers who deserve to be here.
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Street children need help...... Street kids,
..........They come to us
..........as they are;
we make of them
..........what they let us
they crave love, need direction......ready for school