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Dear friends,
January 2010 opened with the devastating earthquake
in Haiti. This touched the whole world, and our founder
more than most. Having been the principal economist
to Haiti for four years and maintained relations with
exiled Haitins on three continents over three decades;
he
longed to go there and participate in the search,
rescue and recovery operations. Being not so young
and mobile he settled instead for developing something
more in keeping with our mission.
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ANA
TERE'S PROJECT:
"LIBRARIES & LITTERACY"
This year we installed Community
Libraries in two of our Trujillo schools
[Alto Trujillo, Las Deliciasas] also on the properties
of friendly NGOs and Parochial Schools. This has
been Ana Tere's personal project. See PROMOLIBRO |
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OUR
VERY OWN SCHOOL
This is the tenth year of our campaign to get
the poorest 1/4 of Latin America's children educated.
During this time we have occupied more than a
hundred properties, in which we installed shanty
schools. Finally we found a community in our home
town which can serve as a model for training our
partners in the Ministry of Education (who are
taking over the project ) So we built our own
little permanent school..
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MOTHERS
NOW WORK
So their children can attend school. Before our
project to provide capital and training to the
mothers, often it was the children who earlned
a families living by begging (or worse) on the
streets. Now many of them can be normal school
children thanks to their working moms.
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2010
BRUCE
PERU PROJECTS TURNED OVER TO THE MINISTRY OF
EDUCATION
Ever since
our pilot project began to bear fruit in the early
years of the new century, we have bee steadfast
in our determination to do only what is required
to convince the Governments of Latin America's
countries to embrace our simple system and permit
us to help meld it into the Ministry of Education:
to the end that the poorest 25 % of their children
will begin to get educated. To this end, in Peru,
we have entered into detailed contracts with regional
agencies of the Ministry
[Click
for details].
In 2010 we completed the transfer of of our projects
in 7 Peruvian cities to the Ministry of Education.
Cities/Schools
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Symbols on the map indicate
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AS
FOR BRINGING OUR
EDUCATIONAL SOLUTION
TO THE OTHER COUNTRIES
OF LATIN AMERICA
It was always our plan - as soon as we were
satisfied our method was succeeding in Peru -
to take it to the capitals of neighbouring countries.
The poorest one quarter of all their children
fail to get into the education system.
Therefore, beginning in January 2005 we have been
quietly opening our centres in Panama, Ecuador,
Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, and in Aughst
2010 we opened the latest satelite
Bogota, Colombia.
While some of our satelites in Latin American
countries have been funded by our founder and
his family, most have been started with the help
of a grant from one of our supporters. The Colombia
venture was funded by old friends in Ireland who
have sponsored one or two schools in Peru for
the past five years. We were only a couple of
months into the project however when we received
the disappointing news that our friends little
fountation was forced to close due to the state
of the Irish economy. And so we contuinue the
project on faith and what little we can scrape
together ourselves. Yes, you are very welcome
to sponsor this and any other of our projects.
Bless you.
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Thank you sponsors, volunteers, staff , friends and family
for helping to make our projects work as well as they
do for some of the poorest children, abandoned mothers
and at risk pregnant adolescents. Thank you Iain, our
VP.
Yours,
Bruce Thornton and Ana Teresa Rosell Grijalba,
Founder and President, Bruce Organisation - Bruce Peru
ong (ngo)
PS: We have tried faithfully to help fund our projects
through our own labour. The last couple of years however,
in prevailing economic climate, this has proven difficult.
If you believe our mission is worthy and our projects
a good return on social investment, do please join us
by contributing. GIVE
HERE.
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2010 PHOTOS
Here are images taken during
2010 in a number of projects, all
contributing to our core mission.
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CHILDREN
Some of the students from our classes of
2010
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STAFF/VOLS
Our staff and some of our volunteers 2010
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DENTAL ELECTS
Talented kind young dentists who cure kids.
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MICRO BIZ
Mom's succeed in their own enterprises
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DOWNS 2010
Marks 50 yrs of founders work for retarded
children
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COMMUNITY
LIBRARIES & LITERACY CENTRES
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CAXASCHOOL
Our little
school in Cajamarca (locally
sponsored)
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AT
RISK 2010
They're better now. Some even thriving.
[Abandoned pregnant adolescent:
child rape victims].
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UNIFORMS
When children grad we give Uniforms, strter
kits etc.
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MEDICAL2010
To the best of our means & friend NGOs
we heal our communities
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TO
BUILD A SHANTY SCHOOL
In 2010 we built instead of renting
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2010 PARTIES
kids unused to joy got 60 parties big &
little
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PTA
2010
[Parent Teachers Association]
Without parental co-op it
won't work.
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NVO
JERUSALEN 2010 -- Our dear little school
in the barrio of Nuevo Jerusalen
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CLUB
MEETINGS
In 2010 we carried on meeting with &
helping alumni
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GETTING AN ID
Without IDs our kids don't exist. So we
get them
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CREATIVITY
2010 Our curriculam is repleat with art
[To extent our limited means permits]
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ALT TRUJ SCHL
2010 is the year we build it and & started
to use it
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BEST
AMIGO
In 2010 we began to realign BA for int.
Volunteers.
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DELICIAS 2010
Our shanty school in a barrio south of Trujillo
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FAMILY 2001-10
A boy of 7 taking garbage to mom with TB
& starving siblings to this.
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