18 May
Argentine Children March against Hunger
Today
4,000 very poor children marched through Buenos Aires. |
| In
Buenos Aires
12 March 2007
We are in the process of opening
our first informal school for very poor out-of-school children.
Just 20 minutes
from city centre. |
Dr.
Elizabeth trains in Peru to help direct our project in Buenos Aires. We open our
first centre the second week of March 2007.
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. |  |
|  The 3 steps we pursue to successfully get Latin America's out-of-school
children [20% of all kids] into education programmes.:
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 educated.
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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 | 
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. | |  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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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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Many
Argentine children
not in school live in Buenos Aires
 | 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. VOLUNTEERS
APPLY NOW | Buenos
Aires Information Taking
volunteer applications now.
| 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. | | 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
 
...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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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. |
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