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In Peru, for the many school age
children not attending, we have developed a very successful means of
educating them up to the standard of children their age who are in
school. We prepare them to pass the entrance for the grades they
belong in. We help pay their registration fees, uniforms, class
materials. Then we support them in school for two years: until
they are well launched on their way education. [The
challenge: 26% of Peru´s Children, the poorest, remain uneducated]
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The Ministry of
Education have invited
us to install our informal schools for at-risk children, which
the Ministry of Education has until now been unable to reach,
within sellected primary and secondary schools. We agreed to
operate a pilot for two years, and thereafter have worked: in
several public and private schools in Peru.. |
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The venue was the July 2008 WHO nursing conference held in Israel and
attended by health care officials from 33 countries.. Nancy
and her husband, Tom Palmer, MD, have conducted annual clinics
for our children and parents beginning in 2005. |
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We have been getting enough street kids into school via
our carefully worked out method that by early 2006 we started
petitioning the Govt. to incorporate this into their
methodology.. | |
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Govt. Convention
Recognises Bruce Peru Volunteer Success ibid/ recognising Bruce
Peru´s, success at informal education, the Peruvian Government
have agreed to pay selected teachers. |
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Street Kids
2008 - Time to re-examine our approach to
helping street children and the families they come
from.
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In April
2001 our founder arrived in Trujillo, Peru to put into
practice certain theories he had been working on designed to
solve the growing problem of school age children not receiving
education. Throughout Latin America between a fifth and a
quarter of all children are not in school.- most but not all
of them are qualified Street Children. He did not come
unprepared. His first project for at risk children was in
1960, and he started his first NGO in 1976. In Trujillo he
went right to work proving and disproving one theorem after
another. Sponsor 15 mothers clubs if every mother agreed to
let him get their children into school. Open a chain of free
soup kitchens for children who agreed to let him put them into
school. Use theatre, music and dance to captivate street
children and register them into school. Funding came from his
own means and those of his family. Soon he was joined by
others - teachers, social workers, psychologists, service
personnel and lots of university students; some were paid
staff, most were volunteers. For three years he and his
team struggled against ignorance, poverty, indifference,
corruption, mediocre results and what seemed to be a
conspiracy to cover up the true number of children being
denied their right to an education: (the Government said
96% of children in Peru attend school, UNICEF quoted this
figure) - but we produced evidence showing that only 76%
of the nations children were actually in school. Since the
magnitude of the problem is thus concealed, no
otherinstitution or ngo is dedicated to helping these
children.. During this period lots of extremely poor
children did get fed, clothed, medicated and educated; by us:
but never enough fast enough to be considered "The Solution"
.. Then in early 2004 we began to implement what later
developed into our current, effective solution to locating,
recruiting and educating street children. Since then we have
implemented this solution throughout Peru, and since 2006 have
been introducing it into other Latin American countries.
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Here are a few of the Projects undertaken by
Bruce Volunteers |
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Dilema Faces Peru's
Schools, Out-of-school
kids and challenges to any who
help. |
GARBAGE PATCH
KIDS | |
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Regional dump - where .hundreds of children
and mums live on roting garbage, breathing toxic
fumes. | | |
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For years Bruce´s Volunteers
in Peru helped and were helped by good
friends |
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and during these years our
founder.served
as director or advisor to
several |
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David and
Vickie, founders Hogar De Esperanza, orphanage and
El Rancho, refuge for street children on
drugs. |
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Cesar and
Marleni (founders of Emaus Trujillo)
at Bruce Peru in 2001; the continuation of a 30
year union between Bruce and Emmaus
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Social
Responsibility |
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Blanca
at Bruce Peru, she replaced Andres, who started
Mundo de Niños in Trujillo the same month as Bruce
Peru. |
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Hm.Lila, Director of one of several ´Fe y
Alegria´schools where our little childrens
educatiopnal centres function wherever they can
fit us in. |
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Manos
de Pas is a movable shelter for battered women and
their children, Bruce Peru has sponsored moves
& Manos, protected our moms and
kids.. |
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Circlo Solidario provides Bruce Peru with
the use of one of its sturdy buildings whenever we
enter one of their barrios.. |
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Santo
Tomaso has provided good teachers and
practitioners to our schools, and Bruce Peru has
helped sponsor a small part of their
work. |
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Rotary Club
has sponsored some projects and not a few children
of Bruce Peru. |
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Red Cross of
Trujilolo are partnering with Bruce Peru to bring
permanent t community health to the barrios. |
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Lions
Clubs have been associated with Bruce Peru since
our arrival, here we are with the founder of Lions
Clubs Trujillo. |
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Most of
Bruce Peru´s early staff and volunteers came from
UPAO, as did two Administrators of Bruce
Peru. |
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Peru´s Volunteer
Fire Departments - maybe the best National
charity. Bruce Peru gives LAN, they save our
kids.. |
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UCV
propvides most of the interns in Bruce Peru´s
poverty eradication projects, and all of our
Psychologists. |
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New Hope
International is doing good work in Trujillo, some
projects in colaboration with Bruce Peru. |
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The police of Peru
participate with Bruce Peru involving at-risk
teens. Their band plays at our anniversary. |
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The Nastional
University of Peru, Trujillo have provided all our
social workers and many treachers. Hosted our
Economic & Nutrition Forums. |
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Bruce Peru and San
Lucas have partnered in Alta Trujillo over several
years. They are among our best friends in this
work. |
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CampoSol and Bruce Peru collaborated to
provide more than 10 tonnes of nutritious food to
our children and mothers. |
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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. | | |
Volunteer Life at Bruce - Photos of
volunteers who have served or are serving at the various
centres of Bruce. Also photos of some of our children in
class, & at play.
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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)
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Above are club
meetings 7 June
2006We 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
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HIV / AIDS pandemic
thrives in Latin America |
Sherrill
Musty, the publisher of the book "WHAT'S A VIRUS
ANYWAY |
The
UN has declared that the number infected with
HIV/AIDS in Latin America is greater than that of
Europe and the USA combined. If you live in
one of these countries you would not know this -
it is not reported in the media, talked about in
the chambers of Government. They are in denial.
But we know it is there, children and families in
the communities we help are suffering: and there
is little help available.
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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 three 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 8 cities, with 24 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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| Street kids,
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come to us ..........as they are; we
make of them ..........what they let us |
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