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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
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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..
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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
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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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 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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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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Some 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!. |
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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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