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| Breaking
News - The Ministry of Education, Peru, recently
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. |
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| GETTING EDUCATED |
GETTING THEM HEALED |
MOMS IN BUSINESS |
WOMEN AT WORK |
COMMUNAL GARDENS |
SITE SEARCH |
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PREGNANT & ALONE | THE
LIGHTS OF LIMA | COMMUNITY
HEALTH |
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REIGHTS | MOMS
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2008
Dilema facing Peru's Schools,
Out-of-school children and | 
challenges to those who would help. | |
02 April
Peru
Government contract
W/ Bruce Peru ngo, recognising its success in informal
education, and agreeing to pay selected teachers. |
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| What we did last Summer. | | |
Every Child
has the right to free Education [but 26% of Peru's Kids don't receive it.]
We
are honoured and grateful so many talented, motivated people join the campaign.
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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] has been launched! | Life on the garbage heap
| Since last year we
have been working in the regional dump - "El Milagro" where .hundreds of children
and moms live in the fetid air of roting garbage and toxic gasses. Over several
visits and mingling with the poor garbage pickers we finally managed to gain their
trust enough for Bruce to make our pitch to the children & parents. |  ."We will help educate your children if you will
let them stop working and go to school".We convinced enough of them to open our
first classroom nearby. |
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We
salute our Volunteers who keep returning |
 | (While many others still work with us in their
home countries) When we started our volunteer program
we didn't dream so many kind talented people would take up the challenge of aiding
's poorest children as their own personal project. Thank you all. | |
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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. | |
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 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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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. | |  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!. |  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 all said
"A
charity sponsored us in school, we received an education." |
 | 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. | | |  ...... | Street kids,
..........They come
to us
..........as they are;
we make of
them
..........what they let us |
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