| On 5 October 2005 - We
open our new programme to educate the poorest children in Cajamarcal.
When we left our original project in the hands of ex volunteers
it was with the understanding that they would carry on this
work;however they chose to operate a homework |
club for children we had already goten into school over a year
ago. So we have returned. Above is our new, larger centre. |
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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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 For
over three decades Latin America has endured the unenviable
distinction of having more street children per capita than
any place on earth. What is less known is that for every child
who sleeps in the street there are 300 more in practically
the same condition who live on the street by day but at night
sleep under a plastic sheet or in a woven read or adobe hovel
with their siblings. Both are classed as "Street Children",
the distinction being 'IN' the street, as opposed to 'ON'
the street [those 'IN' are more likely to be addicted to drugs].
When we first arrived in Peru we worked with both types of
Street Children, but for the past two years we have concentrated
our efforts and resources in helping the much larger but less
known population of Street Children who live On the street;
those abandoned in their own homes. During this time we have
managed to open hub centres in 6 cities, with 20 satellite
children's centres located in the poorest barrios: where we
educate, feed, medicate and care for them.
Won't
you join us!. |
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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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