Home.Kids
from our schools, now in State School
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For several this was the first photo ever taken
of them.
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Moms agreed
to let their children study instead of work, Abandoned kids turned
up on their own. We borrowed a vacant house.. |
No electricity or water: sunlight and water buckets
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We brought in furniture, highered a teacher,
bussed in volunteer assistants and social workers.. |
We provided lunch, some clothes,
counselling and some medical services. With progress came books
and book bags.
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These are the children accepted
into public school.
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And this is
the day we registered them. Those who did not qualify yet would stay
another term with us. We will go on teaching kids
who don.t get in for up to 2 years. |
This is the day we gave them their first school uniforms
This is when we begin to negotiate
with whatever family the children have, start getting them to be
responsible. Two years later they'll be buying the
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childrens uniforms. |
We had to place half the children in one school, half
in another; because nobody had these children in their
records as likely to be attending school - so there was not room for all
of them in the nearby state school.
Club Meetings
Every month or six weeks for the next two years, with cooperation from the
schools, our staff and volunteers have been visiting the children in their
schools, Bruce Peru Club meetings. With the school's cooperation
we bring the children together for a meeting, game playing, refreshments
(sometimes a clown or musician accompanies our staff and volunteers).
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Here is the
second Club meeting, August 2005. Social worker on left, Gavin
Moloy in the centre, singer/songwriter on the right. |
The social worker checks on the childrens progress at school and life at
home. It reinforces children who have no family support or live in abusive
homes. |
Below are photos from our last
Club meeting
with these dear children, held 23 May 2007.
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