|  We pursue our mission of getting Latin America's out-of-school
children [20% of all kids] educated in 3 phases:
1- Find the children
2- Teach them, then
integrate them into regular schools.
3-
Launch a campaign
to make the Government recognize these children and take over our work of getting
them educated.
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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)
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Above are club meetings 7
June 2006 | 
We 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. | |  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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...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 Colombia's
child laborers on a daily basis.The object of the campaign is to
recruit volunteers from the tourist population who visit Colombia each year, |
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Many
Colombian children
not in school live in Cartagena
 | With help from our
friends we will open our centre at Bogota in October. We will send our volunteers
out from there to satellite centres in Bogots's barrios where perhaps 2 million
of Latin America's displaced & most desparate people live in little shacks,
and there they will educate and herlp children. VOLUNTEERS
APPLY | Bogota
Information Taking
voluntees applications now.
| HIV / AIDS pandemic thrives in
Latin America |
Sherrill Musty, the publisher of the
book "WHAT'S A VIRUS ANYWAY ", ,has contributed a quantity of these
marvelous books... | 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._______________________
This is the BEST book we have ever found for helping young children deal with
HIV/AIDS - thank you Sherrill: we will make them go far and serve many, |
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Our satellite projects send Bruce Organisation
volunteers into the most deprived barrios
where the poorest children live. Local volunteers are
helping.
 First satellite centres were
here, Cerro Pesqueda, and La Esperanza. Oen Monday some years ago, 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. |
Each country in Latin America has about 20% of its children not attending school.
But Governments do not admit this, nor does UNICEF. We, however, know these children
are out there, and we can prove it. We can also demonstrate that it is relatively
simple to help them into school and to keep them there. We do this every place
we set up. | 
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