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Most
Eecuadorian children
not in school live in Citiy slums.
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friends we are opening our centre in Quito, Ecuador. We will send our volunteers
out from there to satellite centres in the barrios, and there help Quito's poorest
children. The first centre is ready.
VOLUNTEERS
APPLY NOW |
| Getting Started in Quito - Possible early projects |
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| 06 January
2006: Bruce with one of our Quito aquaintences, Marcelo (ex diplomat), children
at a facility offered to us to open a school for ar-risk children. w/worker, Marcelo
and Ana Tere, more children at proposed project in Ecuador, in the hills above
Quito. |
The publisher of the book "What's a Virus, Anyway", is
coming to volunteer, and giving a quantity of these books in Spanish..
| 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.
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| HIV / AIDS pandemic thrives in
Latin America | |
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We
salute our Volunteers who keep returning |
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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 | 
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. |
Our
goal is to persuade Governments to recognize their large population of children
not in school, and to initiate projects ( like ours) for helping them get educated.
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| Kyle
is the first Project Coordinator of our work in Ecuador. His priorities are to
furnish and staff our Quito centre on Paseo Carrion, while deciding between the
several schools where we have been offered space to start our programme in and
around the capital of Ecuador He has the good help of Sarah, Tate and Matietta;
which could also lead to opening in an entirely new location. |  |
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of the places
we are considering | |
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|  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 we worked with both types of Street Children, but for the
past two 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 6 cities, with 20 satellite children's centres located in the poorest barrios:
where we educate, feed, medicate and care for them.
Won't
you join us!. |
| | Festivals in Cusco
and Trujillo
About 50 children from our 3 schools in Cusco and 200 from
our schools in Trujillo came together at separate
festivals for games, competitions, sports, singing, dancing, prizes and lots of
refreshments. No one went home empty. |
 We succeeded in
enrolling all 27 children of our Las Palmeras shanty school into the local state
school. This was unique in our experience in view of the facts: it was
mid term, we only had a few months to prepare them, all entered into grades near
to where they would have been had they been regularly attending school all these
years. We congratulate the teachers and Volunteers who have workd so hard at Bruce
Palmeras. We now participate in the state teacher's salary + plus payed for the
children's uniforms & registration costs.. | |
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