done by our volunteers in Peru
in Panama
First
3 months - €360 Euros per month []
Next 3 months - €290 Euros
per month [] Thereafter - €150
Euros per month
..[Note:
These reduced prices apply only when entire payment is made in advance].
There is no cost to register as
a volunteer with us. All volunteers pay €360 per month (or any part of
a month) for the first three months, after that the price decreases for
those who have paid in advance. We are self sustaining, everyone other
is a volunteer and we do not rely on government or institutional support
[Note:some Teachers, Psychologists and Social Workers are
not volunteers]. Your entire donation should be paid not less than
60 days before your arrival.
How volunteer money
is used
The money that Bruce Organisation
receives is used to help the children (and sometimes mothers) you will
be working with when you join us - any amount which is left after covering
your room and board goes toward this. It costs €120 to pay for the first
year of a child in our programme - this includes paying for school materials
while the child is in our informal school, transport for teachers and
volunteers to and from the school, payment of teachers, daily food, medical/clothes/sundry
assistance, registration fees when the child is accepted into the national
school system, purchasing a uniform, school books and event fees. It costs
€55 for their second year of school.
In addition, money from volunteers also helps to pay for the following:
... · Food/drink for
the children (sometimes the only food they get that day)
...·· Classroom
equipment and books
...· Local teachers
are paid staff
...· Salaries for
permanent local staff who run the centres eg administrative/secretarial
staff and cook
...·· Salaries for
local professionals who help the children and their mothers eg social
workers, psychologists, health workers, educational specialists.
...· Accommodation
and food for volunteers
...· Overheads of
running volunteer centres eg rent, electricity and water
The pie chart below gives a breakdown of how the money received from volunteers
and from English classes is spent annually:
|
Bruce Organisation Annual
Costs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Bruce Organisation
we normally have between 20 and 45 International Volunteers and 30 to 55 Local volunteers serving at any given time
(in spite of the large number of volunteers who have served in our programs, we remain a small organization).
Demographics
| Austria | 4 | Ireland | 15 | |
| Australia | 45 | Israel | 8 | |
| Belgium | 1 | Italy | 9 | |
| Brazil | 7 | Japan | 24 | |
| Canada | 69 | Korea | 1 | |
| Chile | 1 | Lebanon | 1 | |
| Cornwall | 2 | Netherlands | 21 | |
| Cuba | 2 | Norway | 4 | |
| Denmark | 6 | Panama | 1 | |
| Ecuador | 2 | Local People | 484 | |
| England | 121 | Scotland | 8 | |
| Finland | 1 | Spain | 17 | |
| France | 37 | Swden | 11 | |
| Germany | 24 | Switzerland | 10 | |
| Iceland | 1 |
U.S.A.
|
181
|
|
| Indonesia | 1 | .........Total .1,123 |
past Volunteers