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However, what the International Community can do is "grease the wheels" by providing conditional advice/direction and support.
This is exactly what the USA, the UK's Department for International Development, the IMF and the World Bank are doing, with some degree of success.
Nevertheless, I am left very perplexed as to why there hasn't been much more effort made by governments towards social integration.
I believe that this starts with the education of the disadvantaged.
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I also said that the reason for my fact finding trip to Peru "was to see if there was anything that I could do to make a difference. I was not optimistic of finding something that would make a real difference, and less so in finding something that would have a serious impact on a significant number of the population ".
There are times when one stumbles on certain opportunities that one just feels are right.
My venture into the Internet was an example. I had the first fully searchable web site of Holiday Rentals on the Net; there are now many. I was laughed at in 1996 when I suggested at a presentation to European Travel Insurance companies in Amsterdam that "the Internet was coming". (I can underdstand their retiscence - it was painfully slow!)
I feel the same now about a network of Community Learning/Cultural Centres for the disadvantaged in Peru.
I would have expected to have been laughed at had I suggested this some 40 years ago, or even 5 years ago; there were much more pressing priorities.
Today it's a different story. Peru has a healthy economy and "the people" are ready for it. In fact they want to be well educated; it is just not happening for the many disadvantaged.
It is widely recognised that education is not only academic but also involves the personal development of the individual.
I believe that the Personal development of the disadvantaged is even more important in Peru as state education is so poor.
The Headmistress of a state primary school told me: "We are barely able to provide academic courses. We certainly do not have the resources to provide the much needed Personal Development for our students. ". (Albeit that they are part of the National Curriculum).
Please use the "Contact Form" on the right to contact me.
Especially if you are interested in supporting this project; to build the first of eleven State of the Art Community Learning/Cultural Centres across Peru specifically for the disadvantaged.
The first is to be located in a disadvantaged district of Lima - Villa María de Triunfo.
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