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La
Paz, ' Ciudad El Alto'
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Our
first two clases, 12 Jan. through 6
March, 2009
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Escuela
Nestor Paz
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Prepared
to enter second grade
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Classes
Combined for photo
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Prepared
to enter first grade
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 We
return to La Paz in early January to open schools for some of
the poorest children in Bolivia who are not currently able to
receive an education because they have been abandoned, or must
work to live or extreme poverty. |
 For
more than 2 years we have been preparing for and fretting over
our project to help pregnant at-risk teens, and finally - in January
- we got it off the ground. Now it flies.
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 Our long awaited centre in Cusco, is now open
and functioning within the 'City' model of our program. Here are
the founding volunteers
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...Las
Palmeras Children's Centre...................................Recruiting
not-in-school children
We
have progressed apace in the 'Las Palmeras' project, and now are
able to open a Children's Centre in their community 1.05.
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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:
130 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 Argentina's child laborers
on a daily basis.The object of the campaign is to recruit volunteers
from the tourist population who visit Argentina each year, |
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Many
Bolivian children
not in school live in La Paz
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With
help from our friends we will soon reopen our centre in La Paz.
We will send our volunteers out from there to satellite centres
in the barrios, and there they will help La Paz's poorest children.
VOLUNTEERS APPLY NOW |
La
Paz Information Taking
voluntees applications now.
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In
January we opened a children's centre at the City Hall of
Las Delicias. We open with 19 of the poorest children we
have found so far.
Here are the founding volunteers |
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Full story
7 January 2005 |
Dr.
Maria Kunstadter, well known US Dentist (one of our Directors),
brought her children and a staff of other assistants to
our new Cajamarca Centre. They managed to treat nearly 100
children at a one day clinic. |
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Full
story
Our satellite projects send
Bruce Argentina volunteers into the most deprived barrios
where the poorest children live. Local
volunteers are helping. Ffirst
2 satellite centres are here, Cerro Pesqueda, and La Esperanza.
On Monday 08 November, this barren brick building - without water
or electricity (kindly made available to us by the Mayor of Pesqueda)
- was converted into a three classroom mini school. Here 27 unschooled
children were waiting for us to begin preparing them for school. |
Full story
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Street
Kids 2008 - Time to
re-exmine our approach to helping street children and the families
they come from..
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LINkS
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THE
RIGHT TO EDUCATION
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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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Volunteer
Bruce Organisation -
Where you get to write your volunteer job description
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long as you volunteer job helps educate street children
or eradicate poverty - within our proven systems &
programmes.) |
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Below
are NGOs, Charities and projects directed by Bruce volunteers
(A few are now independent).
Note: Most were conceived, started
& funded by Bruce, inaugurated by professionals,
then turned over to volunteers to run. [Very
few abused this opportunity]
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For
years
Bruce´s Volunteers in Org. helped and were helped
by good friends
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More
Bruce Starts
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The
founder.of
Volunteer Bruce Org. served as Director or advisor to
several
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Magaly Madrid and
the Empathy Project have joined forces with us in our
projects which strive to provide children and animals
with a brighter future. |
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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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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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Micro Enterprizes: Fish Farm |
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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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KinderZon, the Dutch charity
have been wonderful partners with Bruce Peru in our projects
for street children in Lima, Quito and Panama City. |
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We
salute our Volunteers who keep returning
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(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. |
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 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 this for two years. |
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HIV / AIDS pandemic thrives
in Latin America
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Sherrill Musty,
the publisher of the book "WHAT'S A VIRUS ANYWAY
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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 Org. 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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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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to us
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we make of
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