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the right are six icons,
one for Bruce Peru and one each for our five main projects. To view
an update of the progress we made in each project during November
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Volunteer
life at Bruce Peru,
November 2003. This month we served
ever more street children, said a few goodbyes and hellos to departing and
arriving volunteers, worked a lot, relaxed a bit.
Some of us had more fun than others, all had fun some of the time
- in fact everyone who came to work with street children got pleanty of
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Medical
day for the children of Delicias Beach.
In
the same community where we are building our shelter for abandoned adolescent
rape victims, Delicias Beach, seven kilometers south of Trujillo, we also
conduct outreach programs to help the street children and poor mothers.
In the past we have helped with childrens parties and given food to the
mothers clubs. In November we added to this a free medical day for the
children of Delicias. Our volunteers, Dr. Jackson (a Piaditrist), Sophie
(an epidemologist), and Ana to translate, we occupied the local clinic
and received a steady stream of children from 9:00 Am to 3:00 PM.
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Scenes from our language academy.
A number of our
international volunteers not only work
with the street children and in their particular projects during the day,
but also contribute their language skills in the evening, teaching Peruvians
to speak English and French in exchange for a small small contribution
to our work. This is a valuable contribution Bruce Peru as our work depends
entirely on our own resources.
Here are pictures of some of our volunteers teaching their
Peruvian students..
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Homage
to a very special volunteer.
Patrick
arrived from Scotland in mid October with a commitment volunteer with
us for 6 weeks.
At
18, Patrick is spending a year away from his studies before going up to
university, and he had little previous volunteer experience , had never
been to a poor country - this is all we knew about him before he arrived.
But
Patrick turned out to be someone who is comfortable in any environment
(even our accommodations can be a bit of a shock to someone coming from
adeveloped country). He posesses a nutural love for children: someone
to whom they instantly gravitate: in no time he was surrounded by them,
knew all their names and with his servicible Spanish could communicate
and help them. Always positive, friendly, good humoured; you could ask
him to do anything that would benefit the children, however difficult
and he would throw himself into it with vigor. Before he left Patrick
knew the full names and ages of perhaps 200 children. And on his last
day he had gifts for most of them. We have had and still have lots of
wonderful volunteers, but Patrick, for his relationship with the children,
stands out as someone truly special. Thank you for coming, Pat.
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The
Angels of November:
This
month we had some new donors and some old one who just kept on giving;
For instance the School of Psychiatry at UPAO University turned up
with several large bags of staples for the children's comedor and the
ingredients to throw a small surprise party for the children - thank you
so much - and Patrick bid farewell to the children with a yoyo for each,
but Meghann and Tanya, who had already brought gifts when they arrived,
continued to buy medicined for the children,; and Matt and Leanne deserve
a mention because they brought so much that it will take some months to
distribute.
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Hernan,
a young anthropologist who joined us this month, also just won the prestigious
award for poetry from the Centro de Estudias Poeticos de España,
in Madrid. .Hernan
has agreed to give a creative writing class to our children. |
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Transitions
The
new arrivals this month are Natalie, registered Nurse(UK), Beth, experienced
youth volunteer(UK), Carlos, securityt(Peru), Christiana, no prior voluntary
experience (GR), Hernan, Anthropologist(Peru), and Chana, kitchen asisistant
- with apologies for having forgotten to anounce her earlier.(Peru).
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