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Day out at Lima zoo
for very poor children
(some had never before left their barrios).
With thanks to Les's sponsors
back in Australia:
Maquarie Bank
Foreign Ecahcnge Team
Poorest children in Lima get their first visit to the zoo with Bruce Peru Our 5 generous hearted volunteers sponsored a day out to the zoo of Lima for each of the children in our Lima projects. They divided them into two groups and took one each for two successive weeks. For many of the children it was their first venture out of the desolate barrios. "Mire, Grass!" ("Look, grass" - first time.) Poorest children in Lima get their first visit to the zoo with Bruce Peru
Poorest children in Lima get their first visit to the zoo with Bruce Peru
Poorest children in Lima get their first visit to the zoo with Bruce Peru
They saw animals they have been learning about never expected to see. They got to wear their best clothes, see sights, hear noises all new to them. It was a day of adventure, education, comraderie with one another and lots of love from our volunteers. So different to the semi abandoned lives they know in the barrio.
Poorest children in Lima get their first visit to the zoo with Bruce Peru
Poorest children in Lima get their first visit to the zoo with Bruce Peru