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Nearly
half the Peruvian children
not in school live in Lima
 Our children's schools
in Lima are now being directed by two highly competent professional
Social Workers, Edith and Luz.
Our international volunteers still participate in each school,
and are coordinated by the Lima project director, however the
day to day running ofeach school director and the teachers is
managed by Edith and Luz; in close coordination with Bruce. Part
of the reason for this is the great distance between the Lima
centre and the individual schools; one being 2 hours travel from
central Lima. |
 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. |
 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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 Our
children were not in the Tsunami (though one of our volunteers
survived it).This is a parabole - In the same way the Tsunami
captured the news headlines and the whole world got involved,
yet the same number of lives are lose each week to starvation:
which goes unreported: so it is with our chidren. The whole
world knows about "street children", most people
have seen them - if only on TV - and there are NGO's set up
to help (though of course they need lots more than this).
The category of children we serve far outnumbers those who
live in the street, and they are almost as badly off. So why
does the world not know about them? Because they sleep under
plastic or in a woven mat shelter in utter poverty with uncaring
or abusive parents - they must find their own food, get their
own clothes; they don't go to school: they are abandoned in
their own homes. That's why the world does not know about
them. But we know they are there, that they suffer, and we
have come to find them, to help.
Won't
you join us!. |
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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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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 |
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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. |
 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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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: 185 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 Peru's
child laborers on a daily basis.The object of the
campaign is to recruit volunteers from the tourist population who
visit Peru each year, |
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