..Matriculation 2005 - (Cusco, Huaraz, Trujillo):

Bruce Peru Cusco: (Main Centre + 2 Satellite Children's Centres)
......'San Sebastian' & 'Santiago' Centres for Street Children

Cusco Photo Album

In early January 2005 we began locating children in 2 Cusco slums who were too poor or abandoned to go to school. at the same time we acquired the use of properties in their communities where we could teach and help them. In March we got them into regular schools.	In March we gave them their school uniforms and school materials. We have already registered them in a regular school and paid their fees. Now they will begin to attend those schools, and we will visit them through our homework club - which we operate in cooperation with World Vision.

Bruce Peru Huaraz

Huaraz Photo Album

Since June 2004 we have been working with a growing number of the poorest children in Huaraz, encouraging them to let us help them enter school, and improving the lives and grades of those already there. In March we entolled all who were not attending regular schools, and bought uniforms and materials for the rest.	We are delighted to be able to do this for the very needy and loveable children who attend the Bruce Peru Centre in Huaraz in the mornings and afternoons. We were able to do this partly through our own means, partly from donations from the Rotary Club and largely by the generous donations form Elizabeth and Chris Saunders and their families and friends..

Bruce Peru Trujillo: (Main Campus + 4 Satellite Children's Centres)
........'Las Palmeras' Centre for Street Children

Palmeras Photo Album

In November 2004 we began locating children in Las Palmeras who were too poor or abandoned to go to school. After Christmas we brought them into our Palmeras Centre and began nourishing, medicating and teaching them. 07 March we graduated them.	07 March we gave them their school uniforms and school materials. We have already registered them in a regular school and paid their fees. Later this week they will begin to attend that school, and we will visit them there once or twice a month, at our homework club right in their school.

.............'Porvenir' Centre for Street Children

Porvenir, Alta Trujillo is a shanty town at the Andean edge of Trujillo. Its inhabitants are as poor as can be found in the city, and many of the children cannot afford to go to school. That was our challenge.	And with a mighty effort by some of our best Peruvian staff, and two of our International volunteers we met the challenge: got all our Alta Trujillo, Porvenir children prepared, basically literate and into school by the deadline.

.............'Las Delicias' Centre for Street Children

The children in our Las Delicias centre come partly from a shanty town, "Taquila", to the south along the beach, and a squat "Tores de San Borqua" to the north, on a sand dune between the ocean and the sewage fields of Moche - not a healthy place to grow up.	With the generous participation of the Mayor of Las Delicias, Flor Bete, and a really dedicated team, including Barbara (a retired University processor from Vermont), Diana, from JapanLauren from England and Rosa, a local teache), we healed and taught them and got all into the two local schools.

.............'Cero Pesqueda' Centre for Street Children

Sero Pesqueda is the high crime, no go area of Trujillo, and is home to too many semi abandoned children whose mothers do something else during the day - leaving the children to their own devices until way after dark. We not only taught, healed, fed and loved them, but we formed a football team and entered them into the local tournament. Come see..	With a loving dedication from three local teachers and help from our Psychologist, social worker and international volunteers we managed to turn around enough of these children to have 25 ready to enter school by the time of registration. As with all the children we have gotten into school we will continue to work with them through our Bruce Peru clubs in their schools.

...........'Trujillo Central' Our Main Campus

In the beginning there was our central campus. But over time we realized that in order to reach the poorest of the poor children in Trujillo it would not be enough to simply recruit and invite children to our campus: we would have to go out to the barrios where the most desperate children live in their isolated squalor..	This then is the last graduation we plan to hold at our central facility. From now on all our efforts for educating the poorest children in Peruvian cities the size of Trujillo (671,000) or larger, will be to work from our central campus, sending out teams to the poorest barrios; where we are establishing more and more satellite Children's Centres..