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 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, |
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 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 tae over
our work of getting them educat.
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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
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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. |
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 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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Many
Argentine children
not in school live in Buenos Aires
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With help from our
friends we will open our centre Buenos Aires this autumn. We
will send our volunteers out from there to satellite centres
in the Bs As barrios, and there they will help Buenos Aires's
poorest children. VOLUNTEERS
APPLY NOW |
Buenos Aires
Information Taking
voluntees applications now.
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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Dr.
Maria Kunstadter, well known US Dentist (our Director),
brought her children and a staff of other assistants managed
to treat nearly 100 children at a one day clinic. |
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Full
story
Our satellite projects send
Bruce Argentina volunteers into the most deprived barrios
where the poorest children live. Local
volunteers are helping.
 The first two 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. |
Full story
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