 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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 Our
long awaited centre in Cusco, is now open and
functioning within the 'City' model of our program. Here are the
founding volunteers
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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, | |
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Our newest
satellite children's centre in La Libertad is at the City Hall
of Las Delicias. We open with 19 of the poorest children we
have found so far. Here are the founding
volunteers | | Full story
 7 January
2005 |
Dr. Maria
Kunstadter, well known US Dentist (one of our Directors),
brought her children and a staff of other assistants to our
new Cajamarca Centre. They managed to treat nearly 100
children at a one day
clinic. | | Full story
 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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