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Bruce and Ana Tere advance our work in Bolivia

Bruce team with moms and kids	Fr. Obermaier shows where to site next school	Welcome back from H1N1 break

Before a meeting with 30 parents	Wild driver is best known Bolivia charity figure	Of 35 students 6 still out with H1N1

January 2009 - La Paz, 'El Alto'	Our first two clases, 12 Jan. through 6 March, 2009	Escuela Nestor Pazº

Prepared to enter second grade	Classes Combined for photo	Prepared to enter first grade

We return to La Paz in early January to open schools for some of the poorest children in Bolivia who are not currently able to receive an education because they have been abandoned, or must work to live or extreme poverty.

Bruce Argentina's lproject to help pregnant adolescents

For more than 2 years we have been preparing for and fretting over our project to help pregnant at-risk teens, and finally - in January - we got it off the ground. Now it flies.

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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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Palmeras Children's Centre, Bruce Argentina, emerging.

Bruce Argentina Volunteers recrruting poor children

...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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Open Sept. 2004, The Bruce Argentina Centre, Puerto Malabrigo (AKA Puerto Chicamam) is living up to our expectations for the 'small city' model of our program.

Bruce Argentina children studying to be ready to enter school

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 "DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR STREET CHILDREN" icampaign s catching on.

Our campaign: "DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR STREET CHILDREN!" is beginning to pick up momentum in centres where lots of international tourists are encountering Argentina's child laborers on a daily basis.The object of the campaign is to recruit volunteers from the tourist population who visit Argentina each year,

Many Bolivian children not in school live in La Paz

With help from our friends we will soon reopen our centre in La Paz. We will send our volunteers out from there to satellite centres in the barrios, and there they will help La Paz's poorest children.
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In January we opened a children's centre 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

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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.

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New Satelits project at Bruce Argentina Trujillo, Cerro Pesqueda

Our satellite projects send Bruce Argentina volunteers into the most deprived barrios where the poorest children live. Local volunteers are helping.

Paying homage to some recent volunteers at Bruce Argentina

Ffirst 2 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.

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Celebrating the work of recent volunteers. Our program is beeing led by a team of talented dedicated fun volunteers.

Volunteers & Children at Bruce Argentina 07-09.2004

Life at Bruce got pretty hectic during the summer, but right now things are probably better than they have ever been.We are better helping the children in our programs.

Photo album of children and volunteers, Bruce Organization

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Street kids,
..........They come to us
..........as they are;
we make of them
..........what they let us

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Street Kids 2008 - Time to re-exmine our approach to helping street children and the families they come from..

Give Directly to the poorest children in Org. (Lima l Cusco l Trujillo l Chiclayo l Huaraz l Chimbote l Cajamarca)

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THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION

We have been getting enough street kids into school via our carefully worked out method that by early 2006 we started petitioning the Govt. to incorporate this into their methodology..

Paying homage to some recent volunteers at Bruce

Great volunteers recognised We will soon include the dozens of you who have contributed so much recently.

Volunteer Bruce Organisation -
Where you get to write your volunteer job description - (So long as you volunteer job helps educate street children or eradicate poverty - within our proven systems & programmes.)

Below are NGOs, Charities and projects directed by Bruce volunteers (A few are now independent). Note: Most were conceived, started & funded by Bruce, inaugurated by professionals, then turned over to volunteers to run. [Very few abused this opportunity]

	For years Bruce´s Volunteers in Org. helped and were helped by good friends	More Bruce Starts
	The founder.of Volunteer Bruce Org. served as Director or advisor to several

		Magaly Madrid and the Empathy Project have joined forces with us in our projects which strive to provide children and animals with a brighter future.		.... .
		David and Vickie, founders Hogar De Esperanza, orphanage and El Rancho, refuge for street children on drugs.
		Cesar and Marleni (founders of Emaus Trujillo) at Bruce Peru in 2001; the continuation of a 30 year union between Bruce and Emmaus
		Blanca at Bruce Peru, she replaced Andres, who started Mundo de Niños in Trujillo the same month as Bruce Peru.
		Hm.Lila, Director of one of several ´Fe y Alegria´schools where our little childrens educatiopnal centres function wherever they can fit us in.		Micro Enterprizes: Fish Farm
		Manos de Pas is a movable shelter for battered women and their children, Bruce Peru has sponsored moves & Manos, protected our moms and kids..
		Circlo Solidario provides Bruce Peru with the use of one of its sturdy buildings whenever we enter one of their barrios..
		Santo Tomaso has provided good teachers and practitioners to our schools, and Bruce Peru has helped sponsor a small part of their work.
		Rotary Club has sponsored some projects and not a few children of Bruce Peru.
		Red Cross of Trujilolo are partnering with Bruce Peru to bring permanent t community health to the barrios.
		Lions Clubs have been associated with Bruce Peru since our arrival, here we are with the founder of Lions Clubs Trujillo.
		Most of Bruce Peru´s early staff and volunteers came from UPAO, as did two Administrators of Bruce Peru.		...
		Peru´s Volunteer Fire Departments - maybe the best National charity. Bruce Peru gives LAN, they save our kids..
		UCV propvides most of the interns in Bruce Peru´s poverty eradication projects, and all of our Psychologists.
		New Hope International is doing good work in Trujillo, some projects in colaboration with Bruce Peru.
		The police of Peru participate with Bruce Peru involving at-risk teens. Their band plays at our anniversary.
		The Nastional University of Peru, Trujillo have provided all our social workers and many treachers. Hosted our Economic & Nutrition Forums.
		Bruce Peru and San Lucas have partnered in Alta Trujillo over several years. They are among our best friends in this work.
		CampoSol and Bruce Peru collaborated to provide more than 10 tonnes of nutritious food to our children and mothers.

We salute our Volunteers who keep returning

Each new Bruce School is anopportunity for up to 50 children to get an education

(While many others still work with us in their home countries) When we started our volunteer program we didn't dream so many kind talented people would take up the challenge of aiding 's poorest children as their own personal project. Thank you all.

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Quiet Irishman sponsors and names a school after his Alma Mater back home.
Gavin Molloy, with help from some generous friends has patroned "Scoil losa"school in the barrio La Esperansa

Gavin Moloy sponsors new school for Bruce children

So far 24 children are attending.

Volunteer Life at Bruce - Photos of volunteers who have served or are serving at the various centres of Bruce. Also photos of some of our children in class, & at play.


Puppet show in Lima	Orphaned in Cajamarca

Basketball Tournament in Cusco	Sports day in Huaraz

Bruce children studying to be ready to enter school

January through March (summer holiday down here) we prepare 5 and 6 year old children - those who are so poor, abandoned or abused they would not be able to go to school if we don' find and help them..We give each centre a target of how many children we expect them to get into school. For March 2006 the target will be 550 - 700 children.

Our campaign: "DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR STREET CHILDREN!" is still working in centres where lots of international tourists are encountering 's child laborers on a daily basis.The object of the campaign is to recruit volunteers from the tourist population who visit each year,

(Ministry of Education) ..Full story

It takes 2 Years !. When we find a child, convince the mother to let us get him or her educated, take them into our little school, give them their first lessons; finally get them up to the level of education for their age, and matriculate them into a state school (paying for uniforms and all expenses): our work for that child is only just begun (2 years)

NEW Bruce Organisation Centre in Cajamarca 05.10.2005

Above are club meetings 7 June 2006We continue to work with each child, and will do so for the next two years. Visiting every month for a "Club Meeting" , at which we monitor their progress, give prizes, work with their techers, our Social Workers see how things are going at school, at home: and we pay for wehatever their parents cannon or will not. We do this for two years.

HIV / AIDS pandemic thrives in Latin America

Sherrill brings AIDS help to poor children

Sherrill Musty, the publisher of the book "WHAT'S A VIRUS ANYWAY

The UN has declared that the number infected with HIV/AIDS in Latin America is greater than that of Europe and the USA combined. If you live in one of these countries you would not know this - it is not reported in the media, talked about in the chambers of Government. They are in denial. But we know it is there, children and families in the communities we help are suffering: and there is little help available.

For over three decades Latin America has endured the unenviable distinction of having more street children per capita than any place on earth. What is less known is that for every child who sleeps in the street there are 300 more in practically the same condition who live on the street by day but at night sleep under a plastic sheet or in a woven read or adobe hovel with their siblings. Both are classed as "Street Children", the distinction being 'IN' the street, as opposed to 'ON' the street [those 'IN' are more likely to be addicted to drugs]. When we first arrived in Org. we worked with both types of Street Children, but for the past three years we have concentrated our efforts and resources in helping the much larger but less known population of Street Children who live On the street; those abandoned in their own homes. During this time we have managed to open hub centres in 8 cities, with 24 satellite children's centres located in the poorest barrios: where we educate, feed, medicate and care for them Won't you join us!.

Bruce opens to help the poor children if Chiclayo

The Ministry of Education have invited us to install our little schools for very poor children within sellected primary and secondary schools. We have agreed to operate a pilot in one school, and if the relationship works: will consider others.

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Street kids,
..........They come to us
..........as they are;
we make of them
..........what they let us

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