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August
2009 - Bruce and Ana Tere advance our work in Bolivia |
Bruce
team with moms and kids | Fr.
Obermaier shows where to site next school | Welcome
back from H1N1 break | | | | Before
a meeting with 30 parents | Wild
driver is best known Bolivia charity figure | Of
35 students 6 still out with H1N1 |
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January 2009 - La
Paz, 'El Alto' | Our
first two clases, 12 Jan. through 6 March,
2009 | Escuela
Nestor Pazº | |
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| Prepared
to enter second grade |
Classes
Combined for photo | Prepared
to enter first grade |
 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.
|  Our long awaited centre in Cusco, is now open
and functioning within the 'City' model of our program. Here are the founding
volunteers |
 
...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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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.
| 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 | | 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. | | 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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kids,
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come to us
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they are;
we
make of them
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they let us |  ......
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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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RIGHT TO EDUCATION | | 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 -
(So
long as you volunteer job helps educate street children or eradicate poverty -
within our proven systems & programmes.) |
| 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 |
More
Bruce Starts | | |
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. | | | | |
| David and Vickie,
founders Hogar De Esperanza, orphanage and El Rancho, refuge for street children
on drugs. | | | | |  | 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 | | |  | Manos de Pas
is a movable shelter for battered women and their children, Bruce Peru has sponsored
moves & Manos, protected our moms and kids.. | | | | |  | Circlo Solidario provides Bruce Peru with the use
of one of its sturdy buildings whenever we enter one of their barrios.. | | | | |
| 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. | | | | |
| Most of Bruce
Peru´s early staff and volunteers came from UPAO, as did two Administrators of
Bruce Peru. | |  ...  | | |
| 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. | | | | |
| New
Hope International is doing good work in Trujillo, some projects in colaboration
with Bruce Peru. | | | | |
| 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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| We
salute our Volunteers who keep returning |
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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 | 
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 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.
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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!. |
| 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
..........as they are;
we make of
them
..........what they let us |
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