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Jos
and Dennis
Long term, professional, generous
Co-directors of
Bruce Lima
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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!
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 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. |
 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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 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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June 2006
Villa El Salvador School
Our newest school in Lima is right in the heaqrt 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
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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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