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We entered this quarter still engaged in recovery activities from the two floods (bit more debt). We took on temp staff to help resettle children missing school after loss of Nuevo Jerusalen School We delivered keys to completed community house. Then sadly lost our 2nd oldest associate through retirement. Will miss him, our budget will too (by up to 1/3). And then there were a few rays of light shown thru. |
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ASK School, at Porvenir, reopened three weeks after the last flood.
Helping chldren whose homes flooded will require more time. For
now, reading, writing learninig, eating, playing, growing go on
as before.
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 farewell "ASK" UK Action for Street Kids  Now it's just ASK Pe. |
ASK UK has been a faithful & fun associate these10 years; helping meet our budget. Bruce did the heavy lifting by turning over the proceeds of a modest inheritance to fund the schools. Now, with the trust depleted and ASK UK closed; we let the projects in Colombia and Ecuador be taken over by local NGOs: while we now concentrate on keeping the Peru school open. Our funds now come from Bruce's pension, Nicole's monthly donations & drafts against our personal credit cards, which is adding $2,000 a month to our debt. If we can just keep going thru Christmas to February, there is a good chance a Spanish charity will take over the Peru School: assuring its future. Do help us make this happen. |
 This summer we will be getting in touch with friends, family & some of our best volunteers: to ask your help in pushing our crowd funding project over the top. 
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 Pedrito received lifelong pension & free tuition at Braille school 4 th blind
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First
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SAVING
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1 SCHOOL ...........................BUILD
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The new school term was going smoothly
when, in March, torrential rains arrived on the Pacific coast of
Peru [the long awaited feared "El Niño" effect].
With it came two powerful life changing floods.
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torrents filled Alt Trujillo school with more than a tone of sand
& took away parts of the roof. Still, we reopened within two
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Fourth
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Christmas Parties
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Our Quest for volunteers
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Graduation Ceremony
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This quarter we completed another
school year, graduated some, moved others on to State School, a
professional team shot a great video for us,
Christmas Parties, began recruiting
street kids for 2017 |
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Bruce
& Ana Tere got to know some seriously motivated people en route
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children who have been with us long enough to obtain a basic education,
but who are too old to enter State School.
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2nd & 3rd Quarters 2016:
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Our
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the very poor / "street kids" |
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depicting our work so far this year.
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Persistence
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resourcefulness |
Like
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Guayaquil
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Bogota
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NOTE:
This year El Niño arrived. The warm current which every few years replaces the colder Humbolt off Peru´s Pacific coast. It moved westward around the globe, wreaked hurricanes, floods, |
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 Max Berendson, New President. of Bruce Org. (Bruce Peru) |
 Our first business this year: move Delicias School inland, to a place not subject to the ocean's whims. Our new site is proving to be more accessable:enrollement's doubled, |
Here is what we have been saying to South American street kids since 2001 - and we are still saying in 2015 |
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Exercise,
Social Work, Conflict Resolution
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Visitors
w/gifts & class as usual
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Nuevo
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Learning
to recycle
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Bogota
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Guayaquil
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JUNE
2014: Our Fathers
Day fetes with one mostly missing
ingredient. Acknowledging valued partners, colleagues, staff
(with the tenure of each).
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JULY
2014:
Before the mid winter break (25/07 to 11/08) 400 at-risk kids
had been abducted from the streets of Trujillo. Then it stopped.
The gang moved on? We´re delighted with bi wkly reports.
Community Reading Room/Literacy Centre redecorated and reopened
over the holiday period.
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AUGUST
2014:
On
return from holiday we celebrated 5th anniversary of ASK school
+a few birthdays. Current dental clinics were particularly useful.
Regular visits to children we have placed in care. Back to school.
Thank heavens our kids are safe again..
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ASK Trujillo:El Alto |
(Porvenir)
& Nuevo Jerusalen (Florencia de Mora)
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February
2014:
The second month of the new term began with a couple of unique
challenges: Delicias (our largest campus) needed a complete refurbishment.
The school we bought in Nuevo Jeruslaen had a secret mortgage:
we rushed back into rented premises. Only Alto Trujillo (repainted)
remained normal.
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March/April
2014
In March the second term settled in. Ana Tere brought back onto
the team Rosa Ascoy (Social Worker, Project Director, Teacher)
to run Delicias. She also employed two additional Social Workers
to rotate between the schools, and work with children and families
outside of the classroom setting - also to keep up help and pressure
on behalf of Victoria and other special cases.
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May
2014:
By
May everything had settled in (apart from having to move Nuevo
Jerusalen yet again. Ahh yes, Bruce will buy us a place as soon
as he gets back). Mothers Day, well taught classes and first semi-monthly
report from social workers, help.
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November
2013:
The year ended with more children than usual passing on to State
Schools, while others graduated because we had taken them as far
as they wanted to go. The
increase
in numbers
was due to our adding new classes in two of the shanty schools.
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December
2013
Immediately followed the annual Christmas celebration, which for
our dear children brings the joy of a party the likes of which
they had not known before joining us. It also includes the sadness
of parting - some have been with us in these tiny schools for
years. ´By way of supplies and moral support we will continue
to help you when you are gone from here to the next place´.
Adieu.
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January
2014:
A
day after the Christmas party and completion of the 2013 main
term, social workers, teachers and assistants hit the dirt tracks
and back streets, knocking at temporary shelters recruiting children
for the January term, 2014.
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Gowns & diplomas for older
students who have completed.
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Harvesting the fruits of our labor.................
Ana
Tere and a Teacher
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welcome new students to a morning class.
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Sept - October 2013: We have just been notified of good fortune
- not ours
but rather children we are yet to locate, then nourish and put into our Peruvian shanty schools; for those schools are as of now fully accredited institutions of formal education, both secondary and primary: saith the Minister of Education. |
To honour the elevated status granted to our humble
schools we are now seeking an appropriate property in Nuevo Jerusalen,
to purchase and there install a two room school to rival our ASK
School in Alto Trujillo.
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Boy on hold: Juan was born 21 years ago. His mother could see there
was something wrong so she never register his birth, got an ID,
medical help nor put him in school. We found Juan 3 months ago
(at last).
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Education rang up to say we are being accredited.
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a nice man turned up with certificates, visited classes: a foto op. | We got him documented & paid for a CT scan. Juan now receives epilepsy medication & attends our school. |
| July - August 2013...to Those of you who follow us know that for the past several months we have been preoccupied with opening yet anther class for out-of-school kids in the Northern Peru city of Trujillo. This week it all came together: new teacher, Elena Cruzado, new group of local recruiters & new kids. |
It's now mid-winter in South America. No snow will fall on the Pacific coastal plane but to locals it still feels cold enough to have to bundle up. |
Last Dentists for 2013 Treated the final groups of our very poor children [farewell 'til next year]. |
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New teacher Elena teaching local women how to recruit
abandoned, out-of-school kids in their barrio. |
Here is the barrio where they have been recruiting:
Elena and her civic minded local women. |
Here is the result of first day's recruiting [19
August 2013]. By week's end we will fill the quota |
Shona & Amanda, last of this year's angels
from British Dental Colleges have extracted, drilled, filled & gone |
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Scottish Dentists Throughout May and June have been treating our children, their families and our poor community at large. |
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http://youtu.be/mF0iYWMs0dk |
Images of a few or our children - Click to view slide show, |
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Nadim, teaching innovator, project director,
respected/liked by all; will continue 2 help direct viaIinternet |
'09 sports-day-games-farewell-to-Nadim
events filled the need for a monthly distraction from classes. |
Often the nutrition we give
them is the most they will receive that day: so it's simple but fortified |
In 2006 Misha gave us a
rich month. Now he and Mariel are here 4 longer |
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'09 cancer screening clinic [sadly about 10% of local women test positive for uterus cancer]. | '09 Art Contest for some artistic street children
in collaboration with Artists Outlet Museums. Prizes & Certificates to best
young talents. |
ASK school is classrooms
in the AMs and a Community Library / Literacy, Co-op atelier or clinics in the PMs | '09
Baby shower (4 a victim) book she holds was published 4 us when Dr. DianDoody volunteered in 2006 | Alto
is a dessert - our kids only see sand: except when they are inside our little
shanty school. |
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The Learning goes on: Summer/Autumn/Winter/Spring |
Shanty School @ Nuevo Jerusalen
thrives |
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| . "Club meting" for our kids now in further edu: |
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| . July 2012 Dentists 4 the kids ( started 31.07 ): |
eBay preparations (a chance to showcase
Veronica) |
Three on a bumpy ride 2 service |
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| .23 June 2012 The ASK Peru Timeline Movie: |
The new
children are settling in (Jerusalen) |
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| .15 June 2012 Some ASK kids this day: |
Almost up to strength:
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Recruiting continues
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| 13 May 2012 | TODAY IS MOTHERS
DAY - viewing the world through the eyes of our needy children, "mothers"
are their favourite, most beloved people. Friday some of our children danced and
Inca dance in celebration and love for their mothers: ASK PERU on YOUTUBE [If you give 100 to a mother, she will invest 95 in her family: whereas a father will invest but 30] |
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These days, while our children are in class, volunteers are preparing parents to register their children in State school.
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viewed their community from.the local mountain. We climbed Cerro Alto.....................
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