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2
out of 5 Peruvian children
not in school live in Lima
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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 kids. VOLUNTEERS
APPLY NOW |
Lima
Info We
are taking applications for volunteers to start in March.
 For more than 2 years we have been preparing for and fretting
over our project to help pregnant at-risk teens, and finally - this
month - we got it off the ground; a little.
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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 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, | |
 17.03.05 Today we took
posession of our new Centre in Miraflores, Lima. Some of our
international volunteers will live here, and venture out in
the mornings to satellite centres in the barrios to serve Lima's
poorest chidren.
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15
March 2005
Restaurant Raveno |
We held our first
meeting of the Bruce Peru Lima task force, in the Restaurant
Roveno Tuesday night. The 13 participants include local
residents and international volunteers who will help launch
our Lima project.. |
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 Our
long awaited centre in Cusco, is now open and functioning within
the 'Normal City' model of our program.
Here are the first volunteers
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 Our
satellite projects send Bruce Peru volunteers into the most deprived
barrios
where the poorest children live.
Local volunteers are
helping. The first two 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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