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Bruce Peru
Lima
Volunteers for street kids and moms in
Lima
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Av. Reducto 1265 dpto 5, Miraflores,
Lima
BRUCE Organisation ngo & Agenda SOS
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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
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08.08.08
..Jos and Dennis, our longest serving
project directors have finally called it a day in Lima and gone on to
their next adventure. We join our Lima staff and volunteers, including
David, our interim director, in congratulating and thanking them for
the wonderful work they have done for the extremely poor children in
our Lima schools, as well as for our little NGO. On their watch they
launched over three hundred out-of-school children into a life of education
and maybe success. Here are a couple of fun videos they left on their
server, which we offer as a small memorial to their accomplishments
in Peru. The first one (scary animals) was filmed July
2008, and this one, about getting children enrolled and fitted
with uniforms, filmed in March
2008.
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venue was the July 2008
WHO
nursing conference held in Israel and attended by health
care officials from 33 countries.. Nancy and her husband,
Tom Palmer, MD, have conducted annual clinics for our children
and parents beginning in 2005. |
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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 |
 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. |
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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. |
 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 educationn." |
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Nearly half the Peruvian
children not in school
live in Lima
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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
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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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 The end of April we received a visit from our partners in the
Lima project, Marc Zwaaneveld, founder and Chairman of Kinder
Zon, and his son (and webmaster) Carsten, from the Netherlands.
One day with our volunteers and they are now part of the family.
We are already plotting more ways to collaborate.
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 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 |
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 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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| Street kids,
..........They come to
us
..........as they are;
we make of
them
..........what they let us |
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