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Our campaign to get the
National Government of Peru to recognise the large
population of Peruvian children who are not
receiving education, and to do something effective
to get these children educated. [We are offering
our own successful progects as one example] is now
being launched! CLICK |
We are
honoured and grateful that so talented and
motivated a team have come together to direct and
people this campaign. |
This month we
hosted a medical team from the USA,, here to treat
some of our poorest children. They held clinics in
7 of our neediest communities, treating over 100
children each day. More than 700 patients
treated & saved at least 2
lives.
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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
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Note: So
far all 185 children we enrolled, none of whom were bound for
school before we found them, are still attending. One boy in
Cusco has even been voted best student in his entire school,
another, in Trujillo is a maths genius. |
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Many children not
in school live in the White City of Arequipa: Peru's
second largest city. With a little help from our
friends we intend to open our project in Arequipa,
within the next few months - where our volunteers will
go out to satellite centres in the Arequipa's barrios,
and there they will help some of the Ande's poorest
children.
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It takes 2 Years
!. When we find a child, convince the mother to let
us get him or her educated, take them into our little
school, give them their first lessons; finally get them
up to the level of education for their age, and
matriculate them into a state school (paying for
uniforms and all expenses): our work for that child is
only just begun (2 years) .. Above are club
meetings 7 June
2006 |
We continue to work with each child,
and will do so for the next two years. Visiting every
month for a "Club Meeting" , at which we monitor their
progress, give prizes, work with their techers, our
Social Workers see how things are going at school, at
home: and we pay for wehatever their parents cannon or
will not. We do this for two
years. |
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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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Our children were
not in the Tsunami (though one of our volunteers
survived it).This is a parabole - In the same way the
Tsunami captured the news headlines and the whole world
got involved, yet the same number of lives are lose each
week to starvation: which goes unreported: so it is with
our chidren. The whole world knows about "street
children", most people have seen them - if only on TV -
and there are NGO's set up to help (though of course
they need lots more than this). The category of children
we serve far outnumbers those who live in the street,
and they are almost as badly off. So why does the world
not know about them? Because they sleep under plastic or
in a woven mat shelter in utter poverty with uncaring or
abusive parents - they must find their own food, get
their own clothes; they don't go to school: they are
abandoned in their own homes. That's why the world does
not know about them. But we know they are there, that
they suffer, and we have come to find them, to help.
Won't you join
us!. |
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