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We open our first centre the second week of March 2007. <br> </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Elizabeth is an attorney by profession, and has many years experience in Buenos Aires. We consider ourselves fortunate to have the help of someone like Dr. Liz.</font></td><td width="41%"><a href="Elisabet23.02.07.jpg"><img src="Elisabet23.02.07s.jpg" width="168" height="138" border="0"></a></td></tr> </table><TABLE class=calloutBox cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=3 width="100%" border=1><TBODY> <TR> <TD height=141> <p><a class=medHeadline title="We are trying to open a new center to help poor children every three months." href="phase3.jpg"><img height=105 alt="Bruce Argentina's latest Center " hspace=7 src="phase3s.jpg" width=185 align=left vspace=0 border=0></a> <FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>The 3 steps we pursue to successfully get Latin America's out-of-school children [20% of all kids] into education programmes.:<br> </FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><b>1- Find the children</b><br> <b>2- Teach them</b>, then integrate them into regular schools.<br> <b>3- </b></FONT><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Launch a campaign</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> to make the Government recognize these children and tae over our work of getting them educated.</font></p></TD></TR><tr><td><table width="94%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="55%" height="246" valign="top"> <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><b>It takes 2 Years !</b>. 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)<br> ..<a href="bpclubPalmeras07.06.06a.jpg"><img src="bpclubPalmeras07.06.06as.jpg" width="185" height="100" border="0"></a><br> <font size="1">Above are club meetings</font> <font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">7 June 2006</font></font></div></td><td width="45%" valign="top" height="246"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2> <a href="bpclubPalmeras07.06.06.jpg"><img src="bpclubPalmeras07.06.06s.jpg" width="178" height="100" border="0" alt="NEW Bruce Peru Centre in Cajamarca 05.10.2005"></a><br> We continue to work with each child, and will do so for the next two years. Visiting every month for a &quot;Club Meeting&quot; , 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.</font></td></tr> </table></td></tr> <TD height=101><a href="http://chukachuka.com"><IMG height=98 alt="Bruce Argentina's lproject to help pregnant adolescents" hspace=7 src="chucka20.01.05ss.jpg" width=185 align=left vspace=5 border=0></a> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">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</font><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>.<br> </FONT> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="619%" border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD class=linkBullet vAlign=top width=3><IMG height=5 alt="" src="bullet.gif" width=3 border=0></TD><TD class=smHeadline width=376><a href="http://chukachuka.com" target="_top">Full story <IMG height=11 alt="" hspace=3 src="arrowLnk.gif" width=9 align=absMiddle border=0></a><A href="http://volunteerforce.org/argentina/cusco/cusco_project.html" target="home"> </A></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD>></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=3 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> </TBODY> </TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=1> <TBODY> <TR> <TD class=xcalloutBox vAlign=top width=194 height="242"><A class=medHeadline title="VIEWPOINT: Volunteers prepare poor kids in Argentina to enter school" href="bpocramming.html"><IMG height=85 alt="Bruce Argentina children studying to be ready to enter school" hspace=0 src="class10.04s.jpg" width=185 align=center vspace=5 border=0></A><BR clear=all> <A class=medHeadline title="VOLUNTEERS: going all out to get feral children into school." href="http://bruceperu.org/bpocramming.html"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Very poor children being prepared to enter school for the first time.</font></A><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><NOBR></NOBR>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.</font>&nbsp;<font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Total: 130 children</font><BR clear=all> <DIV class=more><A href="bpocramming.htm">Full story <IMG height=10 alt="" hspace=3 src="arrowLnk.gif" width=9 align=absMiddle border=0> </A></DIV></TD><TD style="PADDING-LEFT: 8px" vAlign=top width=194 height="242"><IMG height=85 alt="Our &quot;DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR STREET CHILDREN&quot; icampaign s catching on." hspace=0 src="ninosduermens.jpg" width=185 align=center vspace=5 border=0><BR clear=all> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our campaign: &quot;DON'T FEEL SORRY FOR STREET CHILDREN!&quot; is beginning to pick up momentum in centres where lots of international tourists are encountering Argentina's <NOBR></NOBR>child laborers on a daily basis.The object of the campaign is to recruit volunteers from the tourist population who visit Argentina each year,</font></TD></TR> </TBODY> </TABLE><b></b></TD><!--rightside components--> <TD border=1 style="PADDING-LEFT: 8px" vAlign=top width=393 height="1053"> <div align="center"><font size="2"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Many Argentine</font></b></font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font size="2">children not in school</font> <font size="2">live in Buenos Aires</font> </b></font></div><TABLE height=97 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="48%" height=89><a href="buenosax1.jpg"><IMG height=119 src="buenosax1s.jpg" width=185 border=0></a> </TD><TD vAlign=top width="52%" height=99><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>With help from our friends we will open our centre Buenos Aires in September. 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. <font size="1"><b><a href="http://brucenet.net/bpovolunteer.html" target="_top"><font size="2">VOLUNTEERS APPLY NOW </font></a></b></font></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY> </TABLE> <a href="3http://www.easybuenosairescity.com/english.htm">Buenos Aires Information<IMG height=9 alt="Bruce Argentina Volunteers open Palmeras Children's Centre 01.05" hspace=2 src="arrowLnk.gif" width=8 align=absMiddle border=0></a><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><b>Taking volunteer applications now.</b></font> <table class=calloutBox cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 width="100%" border=1> <tr valign="top"> <td height="40"> <table width="100%" border="0" height="115"> <tr> <td width="48%" height="49"> <a href="drmariatwork07.01.05c.jpg"><img src="drmariatwork07.01.05cs.jpg" width="177" height="94" border="0"></a> </td><td width="52%" valign="top" height="49"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></td></tr> </table></td></tr> </table><a href="http://volunteercajamarca.com/dentists07.01.05.html" target="_top">Full story<img height=9 alt="Bruce Argentina Volunteers open Palmeras Children's Centre 01.05" hspace=3 src="arrowLnk.gif" width=9 align=absMiddle border=0> </a><br> <table class=calloutBox cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 width="384" border=1> <tbody> <tr valign="top"> <td><img height=105 hspace=7 src="piscera03.11.04s.jpg" width=185 align=right vspace=5 border=0 alt="New Satelits project at Bruce Argentina Trujillo, Cerro Pesqueda"> <font size="2"><b><font size="3">Our satellite projects send Bruce Argentina volunteers into the most deprived barrios</font></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a class=medHeadline title="Volunteers at Bruce Argentina work hard most of the day, then relax -week ends are free to travel and celebrate Argentinavian Culture" href="bpolife08_10.04.html"><font size="2"> </font></a><b><font size="2"> where the poorest children live. </font></b><font size="2">Local volunteers are helping</font></font><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">.</font> <a class=medHeadline title="THANK YOU: to our wonderful volunteers, on behelf of the poor children." href="piscera03.11.04b.jpg" target="_top"><img height=97 alt="Paying homage to some recent volunteers at Bruce Argentina" hspace=7 src="piscera03.11.04bs.jpg" width=185 align=left vspace=5 border=0></a>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.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table><a href="http://bruceperu.com/pesqueda/">Full story<img height=9 alt="Bruce Argentina Children's Centre opened in Cerro Pisqueda 8 November 2004" hspace=3 src="arrowLnk.gif" width=9 align=absMiddle border=0> </a><BR style="LINE-HEIGHT: 25%"> <table class=calloutBox cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 width="384" border=1> <tbody> <tr> <td height="81"><a class=medHeadline title="THANK YOU: to our wonderful volunteers, on behelf of the poor children." href="bpohomage07.11.04.html" target="_top"><img height=85 alt="Paying homage to some recent volunteers at Bruce Argentina" hspace=7 src="updatevols07.11.04.jpg" width=185 align=left vspace=5 border=0></a> <a class=medHeadline title="Volunteers come from all over the world, and we send them home with memories for a life time." href="http://bruceperu.org/bpohomage07_10.04.html" target="_self">Celebrating the work of recent volunteers.</a> Our program is beeing led by a team of talented dedicated fun volunteers. </td></tr> </tbody> </table><table width="100%" border="0"> <TR> <TD> <a class=medHeadline title="Volunteers of Bruce Argentina finally locate poorest children in Trujillo." href="palmeras06.12.04.jpg"><img height=85 alt="Palmeras Children's Centre, Bruce Argentina, emerging." hspace=7 src="palmeras06.12.04s.jpg" width=185 align=left border=0></a><a href="palmerascene06.12.04a.jpg"><img src="palmerascene06.12.04as.jpg" width="160" height="85" border="0" alt="Bruce Argentina Volunteers recrruting poor children"></a> <font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#FFFFCc">...</font><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Las Palmeras Children's Centre<font color="#FFFFCc">................</font>Recruiting not-in-school children<br> </font><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We have progressed apace in the 'Las Palmeras' project, and now are able to open a Children's Centre in their community <font size="1">1.05.</font></font><BR clear=all> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0 VALIGN="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD class=linkBullet vAlign=top width=3 height="12"><IMG height=5 alt="" src="bullet.gif" width=3 border=0></TD><TD class=smHeadline height="12"><!-- mainsection ends --><a href="http://bruceperu.com/palmeras/">Full story</a><a href="bpograduations.html"><img height=10 alt="" hspace=3 src="arrowLnk.gif" width=9 align=absMiddle border=0> </a> </TD></TR> </TBODY> </TABLE></TD></TR> </table><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 width="100%" border=1> <tbody> <tr> <td height="77"><a class=medHeadline title="223 Volunteers from 21 countries have come this year to help Argentina's poor children." href="bpolife08_10.04.html"><img height=85 hspace=7 src="volskidsmasiass.jpg" width=185 align=right vspace=5 border=0 alt="Volunteers &amp; Children at Bruce Argentina 07-09.2004"></a> <a class=medHeadline title="Volunteers at Bruce Argentina work hard most of the day, then relax -week ends are free to travel and celebrate Argentinavian Culture" href="http://bruceperu.org/bpolife08_10.04.html"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Life at Bruce sometimes is hectic , </font></a><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> but then things get better than they ever were before. We are better helping the children in our programs.&nbsp;</font><br clear=all> <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" border=0 valign="top"> <tbody> <tr> <td class=linkBullet valign=top width=3 height="16"><img height=5 alt="" src="bullet.gif" width=3 border=0></td><td class=smHeadline height="16" width="363"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://bruceperu.org/bpolife08_10.04.html">Photo album of children and volunteers, Bruce Organization</a></font><font size="2"></font></td></tr> </tbody> </table></td></tr> </tbody> </table><TABLE class=calloutBox cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=3 width="100%" border=1> <TBODY> <TR> <TD height="98"><A class=medHeadline title="We are trying to open a new center to help poor children every three months." href="http://bruceperu.com/malabrigo/"><IMG height=108 alt="Bruce Argentina's latest Center " hspace=7 src="malabrigologo.jpg" width=185 align=left vspace=5 border=0></A> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="http://www.bruceperu.com/malabrigo/malabrigo_photo_album.html">Open Sept. 2004, The Bruce Argentina Centre, <b>Puerto Malabrigo</b></a></font> (<font size="1">AKA</font> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Puerto Chicamam</font>) is living up to our expectations for the 'small city' model of our program. </TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><BR>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 have done this every place we set up. </font></b></TD><!--end middle content table--></TR> </TBODY> <table width="783" height=117 bgcolor=#FEFECA border="0" valign=top align="center"> <tr valign="top"> <td width="71" height="95" valign="middle"> <b><font color="#3333FF" size="3"><img src="2needy09.03s.jpg" width="71" height="114" border="0" align="top" alt="Street children need help"></font></b><font color="#FFFFFc">......</font> <td width="212" height="95"> <b><font size="4" color="#666666" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Street kids,</font><font size="6" color="#666666" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></b><br> <font color="#FFFFFc">..........</font><b><font size="4" color="#666666" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">They come to us</font></b><br> <font color="#FFFFFc">..........</font><b><font size="4" color="#666666" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></font></b><b><font size="4" color="#666666" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">as they are;</font></b> <br> <b><font size="4" color="#666666" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">we make of them</font></b> <br> <font color="#FFFFFc">..........</font><b><font size="4" color="#666666" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></font></b><b><font size="4" color="#666666" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">what they let us</font></b></td><td height="95" width="446"> <div align="right"><img src="queue09.03back.jpg" width="189" height="115" alt="they crave love, need direction"><font color="#FFFFFc">......</font><img src="newuniforms03.04as.jpg" width="227" height="115" align="top" alt="ready for school"> </div></table></TABLE><table width="782" border="1" height="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="center" bordercolor="#CCCCCC"> <tr> <td height="2" width="49"> <div align="center"></div> </td><td height="2" width="63"> <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/default.stm" target="_top">W O R L D</a></font></div></td><td height="2" width="62"> <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf" target="_top">R E L I E F</a></font></div></td><td height="2" width="80"> <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="http://www.alertnet.org/" target="_top">D I S A S T E R</a></font></div></td><td height="2" width="65"> <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="http://www.who.int/en/" target="_top">H E A L T H</a></font></div></td><td height="2" width="79"> <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="http://www.caf-europe.org/world_news.php" target="_top">C H I L D R E N</a></font></div></td><td height="2" width="62"> <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="http://womensissues.about.com/od/worldissues/" target="_top">W O M E N</a></font></div></td><td height="2" width="88"> <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="http://www.education-world.com/" target="_top">E D U C A T I O N</a></font></div></td><td height="2" width="96"> <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="http://globalview.ws/EconTheory.html" target="_top">E C O N O M I C S</a></font></div></td><td height="2" width="77"> <div align="center"><a href="http://globalview.ws" target="_top"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">G L O B A L</font></a></div></td></tr> </table></td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </BODY></HTML>