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Negotiating terms of "Contract" |
The Mothers of Las Palmeras (alta Esperanza) and Bruce Peru
Contract to educate their children - 17 November, 2004 |
 Gladys (associate), Bruce, Ana Tere (founder, president), Sandra, Karla (2 of our social workers) |
With the help of Gladys, our associate in La Esperanza barrio (Trujillo's largest), we have made contact with the women of a small shanty town, Las Palmeras, situated on a rocky outcropping in the sand dunes which define the western edge of the Andees.These poor women, mostly abandoned single parents, are desperate to get for their children a better life than they have known, but they simply haven't any money to pay for school registrations, uniforms, books and transport: so their children work the streets of La Esperanza and Trujillo instead. |
Street scene in Palmeras 
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They have agreed with us that if we will bus their children to our campus, begin teaching and preparing them to enter school, they will make/let the children leave the streets and come to us. And if all goes well, we will help register and pay for the children to enter school, help buy their uniforms, books and help pay their transportation. The project begins in January, so we have a little time to prepare for the onslaught - we are expecting 50 children in the first wave. After that - assuming the mothers keep their end of the bargain - we will open one of our satellite centres in their community. |