Challenges and Fun Times July-Sept. 2002

Preparing young Offenders for a better life.Under an agreement with the Peruvian Ministry of Prisons we are training young inmates in skills which will help them land jobs when they return to society.... Our reliable instructor, Max, is now giving classes 3 days a week in electricity. We donate the cost of materials and transport. 1 September 2002




Our fiesta in celebration of the "International Childrens Day".
When our Street Childrencame together with staff and visitors to party, compete for prizes, dance and receive gifts.... September 2002In an average day there is little joy in the life of a child who lives in the open or who by reason of extreme poverty is forced by an abandoned mother to forego his or her education and work until late at night on the city's dangerous streets selling candy or shining shoes. Most of them have both
drugs and health problems, many are abused by adults. We try to bring them together at least twice each month to have some fun.



Eight new orphans join Albergue Nicole D'AmecourtUnder an accord with the National Foundation for Children, Peru, we accepted 8 children who are too old for adoption (ages 13 - 17).


And then Nicole herself turned up for her second visit to Peru.
She came laden with clothes and gifts for the children. [Nicole and Bruce co-founded our parent NGO in 1976, and Nicole serves on the Board of Bruce Peru] Nicole to the right, Ana Tere in background to the left.

War on cancer, TrujilloWe held our first free clinic for abandoned mothers at our campus in central Trujillo, including clases in prevention and examinations by an obstetition.... Mothers came from our 15 mothers clubs and more will return on forthcoming week ends..

A child is born For three months we looked after an abandoned expectant mother who we found sleeping in a park. On July 24 at 6:AM she gave birth. Bruce delivered a healthy baby boy, Juan Daniel

Anatere Rosell Grigalba is now our President, (Bruce, only our founder).

Night at the Ballet Eusebio, ex-street kid turned ballet dancer and master instructor presented the students of our academy and members of his company in a glittering performance at the Municipal Theatre.... 1 July 2002

Psychological therapy Our staff of Psycologists conducted a day of
counselling for some of our abandoned mothers the first week end of July.

Normally they go to the mothers' homes, but with more than 900 mothers and only 4 Psycologists