| New headquarters
for Bruce Peru ngo - 444 San Martin, Trujillo. After 4 years
on Independencia (a half block from the main square of Trujillo,
we have mver to another colonial building, one block from the
main square. We hope the new landlords are more honerable. |
We are actually delighted with the new headquarters - with room
for offices, 4 class rooms, and accommodation for up to 20 vols. |
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Quiet Irishman
sponsors and names a school after his Alma Mater
back home.
Gavin Molloy, with
help from some generous friends has patroned "Scoil
losa"school
in the barrio La Esperansa
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So far 24 children are attending. |
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We opened new
schools
Trujillo (Esperanza),
Chiclayo/Lambayeque
(Las Dunes). Now we will stop growing until we can
sustain our present commitments. |
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Pictured
here is Las Dunas school outside Chiclayo
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 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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Note:
Seven months on nearly all 185 of the children we enrolled in first
grade last March, none of whom were bound for school until we found
them, are still attending. A boy in Cusco was voted best student
in his entire school, another, in Trujillo is a maths genius.
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 October
Baby Shower. We hold regular baby showers for the at-risk
teens who give birth while in our Chuka Chuka project. Some
of the town's matrons knit baby clothes for them. Here some
of the matrons participate in our October baby shorer. The
national average for teen rape victims who keep their babies
after birth is 50%. The record for our girls is 100%.
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Two special volunteers
share their love and generosity in Huaraz. Denise and Thilo
made a great impact on our centre and children in Huaraz, plus
they hold the record for generosity.
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City festivals
in Cusco and Trujillo unite our children.
About 50 children from our 3 schools in Cusco and 200 from our
schools in Trujillo came together at
separate festivals for games, competitions, sports, singing,
dancing, prizes and lots of refreshments. No one went home empty. |
 We succeeded in
enrolling all 27 children of our Las Palmeras shanty school
into the local state school. This was unique in our experience
in view of the facts: it was mid term, we only had a
few months to prepare them, all entered into grades near to
where they would have been had they been regularly attending
school all these years. We congratulate the teachers and Volunteers
who have workd so hard at Bruce Peru Palmeras. We now participate
in the state teacher's salary + plus payed for the children's
uniforms & registration costs.. |
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The Ministry
of Education have invited us to install our little schools
for very poor children within sellected primary and secondary
schools. We have agreed to operate a pilot in one school,
and if the relationship works: will consider others. |
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Full story
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