Dear friends of Bruce Ecuador, You may have served as a volunteer
and personally know the children who were with us while you were in
Ecuador. Or you may have passed through Quito and met some of the Bruce 
Ecuador staff and volunteers in one of our events, or visited one of our
schools. However you came to be connected to Bruce Ecuador or learned
of us; you are aware that we find and work with the poorest, most
abandoned children living at the farthest outskirts surrounding Quito.
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
charity, we are educational). [View the short video of our work in Ecuador:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QoyqnXQHI4Q ]

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 ].  A Government has recognised the value of our work with two awards in the past year. Even so all our funding comes from you and from our quizzes and promotions in Quito. Please dig deep or else give a little each month. You have been there and know how much we can do for the children on 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 Ecuador exists to provide an education to marginalised children in Ecuador.