Dear friends of Bruce Peru, You may have served as a volunteer
and personally know the children who were with us while you were at one of our centres in Peru. Or you may have passed through a Peruvian city, and there met some  Bruce Peru staff or volunteers in one of our events, or visited one of our
schools. However you came to be connected to Bruce Peru, or learned
of us; you are aware that we find and work with the poorest, most
abandoned children sleeping in the adobe or shanty slums that ring every Latin American city.. We teach them the basics, so they can
enter the class they would have been in had they attended school all along.
We take responsibility for getting them accepted in the nearest
state school (they  need to pass an entrance exam), we register them, buy
their uniforms, give them a starter kit containing the basics in school
materials, and we continue to be involved with them for the next two years,
we are responsible for them [See an example of how this works: http://bruceperu.org/porvanir2007.html ].
Primarily we teach them - and in the act of doing this we give them some
nutrition, some clothes and medical attention (some, because we are not an aid
organisation, we are educational - before letting them become charity dependent on us we put their mothers into micro businesses). Please visit our slum micro development projgramme: http://arribaya.com/   

The Government of Peru has recognised the value of our work with two awards in the past year. Even so all our funding comes from you, our current volunteers and from projects which both serve our mission and cover some of our costs - never enough. Please dig deep or else give a little each month. You have been there and know how much we can do for these children with only a little funding.

Throughout Latin America over 20% of school age children fail to receive an education. They are the poorest of poor children, semi abandoned or street kids. Bruce Organisation exists to provide an education to all these marginalised children.

Click to view a brief video of our work. It was shot at one of our schools in Quito, but is identical to what happens in all our schools throughout Latin America.  http://youtube.com/watch?v=QoyqnXQHI4Q