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Our teacher in front of her
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market workers leariing
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chance at a new life
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can be fun
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recruiting out-of-school kids
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our new insignia
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,2 Dians, Tate, Michelle 2 Sarahs and our great Ecuadorian volunteers
have achieved results in our first 6 months: we have already registered
67 Quito children in the Ecuadorian National School System. We
have taught them enough to pass entrance exams; contributed for
uniforms, fees, & supplies. |
Some of Quito North kids |
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Our first graduating class.
This is the beginning of Summer in northern Ecuador,
and at the end of our first term we can already graduate 22 children:
who are ready to take their places in regular school at the beginning
of the Autumn term. This represents a windfall success story for Bruce
Ecuador, considering how short a time we have been operating our schools
in this Andean country.(here are 16 of them) |
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Our Centre in
Quito
Accommodation for 12 volunteers, in the most interesting
part of the city. From here we venture out each week day
morning, to the barrios where the poorest children in Quito
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Most
Eecuadorian children
not in school live in Citiy slums.
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With help from our
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 |
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Getting Started in Quito - Possible
early projects
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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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(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
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So far 24 children are attending. |
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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.
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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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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
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Some of the places
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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!. |
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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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to us
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we make of
them
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