| | Volunteers helping street children in Lima Peru "Bruce
Peru"
Bruce Peru Lima ...
Av. Reducto 1265 dpto 5, Miraflores,
Lima
A collaboration Bbetween BRUCE Org (Agenda SOS) & Volunteers-
Good News for Lima. |
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News - The Ministry of Education, Peru, today announced that
each child being taught in one of Bruce Peru´s informal schools,
who has successfully completed one year as a Bruce Peru student, will
be awarded the same certificate as all students in the Peruvian Education
System: for having completed one year of school. [For now this applies
only to the Provence of La Libertad]. Of course we are absolutely delighted,
grateful for the recognition and thrilled for the children. When this
privilege is extended to all Provences, and the Government adopts our
programme as its own solution for out-of-school children: then we can
all become friends. |
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
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 Light at the end
of the tunnel for the poorest children of Lima. The state school building
shown at right is the first ray of this light - for we have managed to start moving
our Lima projects from their shanty schools into state school buildings; where
we have already proved in other cities our success rate in seriously helping the
poorest children is much higher. This is both a credit to all the volunteers who
have toild in the Lima barrios, and to our standing with the Ministry of Education
throughout Peru. |
| June 2005
Ventanilla,
Lima, Peru
We built a little
shanty school onto the back of our co-director's house in Ventanilla. Now more
than 20 children are educated and fed there every week day. |  Our
satellite projects send our Lima volunteers into the most deprived barrios where
the poorest children live. Many local volunteers are helping. The
first four satellite centres in Lima are, Villa
Maria, San Juan de Miraflores (Rinconada),
Pamplona (San Sebastian)
and Ventanilla.
To open a satellite children's centre (a shanty school) we require at least ten
children in the community who are not in school to be registered with us, and
have the agreement of their family (almost always a single or abandoned mother).
To start we will pay a local co-director and a licensed teacher. When the centre
has over 20 children we will pay a second teacher. All our Lima satellite children's
centres now have over 20 children, and we are preparing to begin opening more
in July and August. |  During Summer break
in the Southern Hemisphere we work with children young enough to enter first or
second grade. The rest of the year - like now - we educate children too poor,
abandoned or too old to get into regular school. Right now in Peru we have 14
full time centres, 6 part time centres and are just opening another 6 full time
centres to educate these dear children.
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 Claire,
the British nurse in Ethiopia who inspired Live Aid 20 years ago when at a young
age she had to decide the fate of thousands of starving children: it fell to her
to select 60 children each night to fill the vacant places in a shelter where
they would be cared for and fed: leaving up to 2,000 in line, knowing they would
probably not survive the night - such were the harsh realities of the 1980's famine
in the Horn of Africa, and the heavy burdens placed of the care givers who went
to help. Claire continued her career in Kenya and in other countries. Recently
she returned to Ethiopia to look for some to the people she had brought into the
shelter as children in the '80s. She was able to find many of them, all survivors.
Some were as poor as their parents had been before the famine, while others were
prosperous - there was a marked difference between them. She asked some of the
successful ones to what they attributed their success, whereas so many of their
peers remained badly off. They said, "A charity put us in school, we received
an educationn." | |
Nearly
half the Peruvian children
not in school live in Lima
| Our first school
in
Villa El Salvador
Was started
in Lima - right in the heart of a homeless persons invasion site. One day last
month four thousand extremely poor people decended upon a sandy firld and started
errecting their flimsy reed shacks. We agreed to provide their school. |
Their first visit
to the Zoo
In two turns our dear Aussies took all our children to the
Lima Zoo. For some it was their first trip out of the barrio, first sight of grass,
paved roads, buildings |
Our first Christmas
with the children of Lima. Fiestas & more. Pictured here are two of our
three parties for our Lima children. Between the vols from australia and Ana Tere's
daughter, the children of Lima were at least as spoilt as any of our dear Peruvian
children. It was also a farewell to the generous Australians, hello to Oliver;
plus a time to reflect on all the people who helped us make it through this first
year. Marc, Meg, Dave, Ron, The Odd Theatre Co. Katie, Nikki, Fumico, Alex, Meghann, Lloyd.
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Las Americas ...San
Sebastian
| Better school
buidings for the children of Bruce Peru Lima.
We have
left the pool hall in Rinconada for a proper school house at Las Americas, and
the "Pig Pen" (La Chancharia) for a real school in San Sebastian |
The Poor Children
of Lima
- our greatest challenge!
For poor families living in the
most expensive city, it is hard to let ones children go to school instead earn
money. In the city where more NGOs are offering poor people something for nothing,
it is easy for them to become spoilt: to feel entitled to 'a life for free'. Right>Some
of the dedicated creative, dynamic and selfless volunteers who have taken on Lima
for the sake of its children.
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Very poor children being
prepared to enter school for the first time.We have given
each centre a target of how many children we hope to prepare and register for
school by this December. Trujillo is on target. Huaraz is optemistic.Waiting for
word from Cajamarca and Malabrigo. Total: 185 children
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Our campaign: "DON'T FEEL
SORRY FOR STREET CHILDREN!" is beginning to pick up momentum in centres where
lots of international tourists are encountering Peru's child laborers
on a daily basis.The object of the campaign is to recruit volunteers from the
tourist population who visit Peru each year, |
Lima
Info | With help from our
friends at Kinder Zon we have opened our Lima Centre. We send our volunteers out
from there to satellite centres in the barrios, where they help the poorest children.
VOLUNTEERS
APPLY NOW | |  ...... | Street kids,
..........They come to us
..........as they are;
we make of them
..........what they let us |
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