I'd like to meet:
Homeless Children
"There are too many now
to help each one.
Knowing they are out there however
and that they suffer
compells one to do something
if only a little
to relieve them.
Or how should we face ourselves
at the hour of our death confessing we did nothing"
Bruce
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 Peru we worked with both types of Street Children, but for the past three 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 8 cities, with 24 satellite children's centres located in the poorest barrios: where we educate, feed, medicate and care for them.
In Peru 26% of the children of school age are not in school. We and our volunteers have found a way to recruit these children, educate them to make up for all the years they have missed. Prepare them to pass the entrance examinations for the grades they belong in. Help pay their registration fees, uniforms, class materials. Then we keep them in school for two years: until they are well launched as young people becoming educated. It works. We have a wide variety of volunteer openings.
Four ways to help very poor children
Come help directly
Become a volunteer in one of the Bruce Organization projects. You will help very poor children prepare for and enter school, study the local language and emerse yourself in a new culture.
Volunteer
Sponsor a child
It costs $117.25 to pay a childs' school costs for one year (uniforms, transportation, registration and books)
Sponsor a child
Sponsor a Children's Centre
It costs $12,000 to open a Children's Centre in a small-to-medium size Latin American City, and sustain it until it becomes self sustaining. The centre can bear the name of its sponsor.
Sponsor a Children's Center
Work from home
There are so many ways you can help us right from where you are: sending emails, recruiting volunteers from the local university, starting a support group; joining others who are already helping. For more information: please
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From all of us and especially the children we
THANK YOU.
