News from
Bruce Peru, NEWS OF PERU, hope for street children
Published in February 2004 to report our activities
and events of January 2004.
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we make it work
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taken January 2004, two boys recruited on the streets)
1 - Teams of our volunteers
go out into the city's streets looking for child laborers (and street
kids generally).
2 - When they encounter them
they make friends and get as much information as possible about
the child's circunstances, fanily, interests; and if the child seems
to fit the profile of those we might be able to help: we give him
a ticket to a free meal at our Restaurant Corazon - even bring the
child with us if he/she is available.
3 - When they come to eat
they are specially welcomed, and we register them; begin to build
a profile on them which will eventually prove useful in helping
them get into school. They eat with the other children and then
we invite them to join in the games, classes and projects we have
organized for the other children.
4 - When they are comfortable
with us our social assistants begin to work with them and their
mothers to persuade them of the benefits of getitng an education.
If this is successful, we take the child on as one of our regulars.
5 - As an enroled child we
work with them to improve their study skills and group discipline
- we also help them with their nutrition, clothes and medical needs;
but most importantly we go to their local school, and with the cooperation
of their mother: enrol them. Often the mother will not have money
for the fees, books and uniform; when this is the case we give a
grant for the first year's costs.
6 - When the child is in school
we continue to help with tutoring, social, psychological and medical
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Meeting
and interviewing them on the street
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Receiving
them at Restaurant Corazon
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Giving
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free
meals |
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In
class with our other street children, preparing for school
entrance
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Our
Social Worker begins the process of getting them into regular
school
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Our mission to plant our program in other cities is picking up momentum.
A
week in Ecuador and northern Peru.
Bruce and Ana Tere
visited two cities in Ecuador, Machala, in the south, and Ambato in the
north, with a view to opening our project in one of them. The Mayor's
offices of both offered property and cooperation if we would locate our
street kids project in their city. We are favoring the northern city of
Ambato, both because we have friends and fellow workers for street children
there and because the mayor immediately offered us the use of an appropriate
property - a large house in the middle of a childrens park.On the way
back we stopped in Tumbes and Piura, in northern Peru; but decided to
continue our plan to open the next Peruvian project in Cajamarca.
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With Machala street
kids, Machala Social Services Director, Ambato Social Services Director.
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Bruce with Mayor of Ambato - the house
he offered
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With Gonzalo, and street kids - Ana Tere.& Maria Teresa
Our associates, Gonzalo and Maria Teresa's existing work,
using international volunteers to educate poor children in rural Ecuador
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Volunteer
life at Bruce Peru,
January 2004. This month we celebrated
yet another Christmas party, gave special medical and Dental attention to
our children; and most of all it has been an all out push to recruit new
street children who are not now in school, prepare them and begin to enrol
them in Peruvian
educational institutions. We received the most and some of the best new
international volunteers ever, some of them long term, all now hard at work. |
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The
angels of January.
Gareth
arrived with the largest gift of arts and crafts supplies we have ever
received. The children of his class in Derby, England had collected it
all for our children. Sadly, just as Gareth was getting into his stride
as a volunteer, he was called back to Britain due to illness in the family.
Kris, a very talented long term volunteer from the United States arrived
with a considerable quantity of clothes, including desparately needed
childrens shoes. The University Privado Antenor Orrego "ÜPAO"
gave us 66 childrens desks, 17 chairs and 2 giant chalk boards. Thank
you Gareth, Kris and UPAO.
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Transitions
This
month we had the honor to receive the largest number of international
volunteers so far, and really good ones: Budd (Can), Julia (UK), Dr. Blanca
(US), Pat (Ire), Martina (US), Kris (US), Ziggi (Gr) Gareth (UK), Carla
(Per), Karla (Can), Amanda (Can), Tone (Norway), Joanne (Can), Jean-Francois
(Can), Erla (Iceland), Jenny (UK).
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