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Peruvian Schools interested in a sponsorship with American Institutions
The goal of the ¡Amigos! A Partnership for Education program for 2004-2005 is to adequately sponsor all of the schools listed. Below you will find a list of Peruvian schools that are looking for a sponsor. Your sponsorship will ensure that both the students, and the teachers associated with these schools are able to participate in all of the components of the ¡Amigos! Program, including full access to the Amazon CyberSchool at our new website www.aceeramigos.org.

Schools in rural areas as well as those in the city need educational supplies. While the rural schools located along the Itaya River and in Puerto Maldonado are in need of more basic supplies such as notebooks, pencils, chalk, chalk boards, and dictionaries, the schools in Iquitos will benefit from text books, as well as software, hardware and educational equipment. The needed supplies acquired through the ¡Amigos! Program will be distributed through ACEER personnel in Peru.

Please note: the ¡AMIGOS! program is an annual sponsorship program because the needs of students in Amazonia are so great. Sponsorships expire August 31 of each year; we will contact you then to renew your sponsorship for the new school year. We encourage multiple sponsors for schools with more than one teacher, as the needs of larger schools are substantial. ACEER’s goal is to see every school with at least one sponsor.

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Click on the link to see available schools in that area:
• Rural Schools, Northeastern Peru
• Urban Schools, Northeastern Peru
• Rural Schools, Southeastern Peru

Rural Schools, Northeastern Peru
All of these schools are along the Itaya River, a major tributary of the Amazon River. The area is under environmental pressure due to a road from Iquitos to the small town of Nauta about 75 km to the south. Villa Belen is closest to the Iquitos, though still in a rural area. The other six are further to the south. Of particular note and merit is their effort to form a consortium to create a school-based, integrated “Children’s Rainforest Reserve” that would be the only one of its kind in all of Peru. The proposed reserve would encompass these six schools and their associated villages and serve as a buffer to encroaching development along the road. Government approval of the concept has already been obtained, but these schools need financial support to complete the process of creating the reserve, protecting it, and then incorporating it into their school and village activities. The children and their teachers are eager to start this ambitious long-term project. When you sponsor one of these schools, a portion of your sponsorship money will go towards creation of this reserve in addition to classroom improvement such as educational materials and teacher training. Lastly, we are soliciting additional sponsorships for Cahuide to provide enhanced support for its Village Learning Center (funded by ACEER) with its focus on medicinal plant gardens and a small chicken farm and for Meliton Carbajal for its medicinal plants garden and reforestation project with fruit and for Meliton Carbajal for its medicinal plants garden and reforestation project with fruit. Because all of these schools are so rural, Internet access is not possible.

School	Location	No. of Students	Primary	Secondary	No. of Teachers	Number of Sponsorships Needed
12 de Octubre	Itaya River	45	45		1	6
28 de Enero	Itaya River	45	45		1	6
Cahuide	Itaya River	115	65	50	9	16
Luz del Oriente	Itaya River	20	20		1	6
Meliton Carbajal	Itaya River	62	62		2	9
Varadero Omaguas	Itaya River	35	35		1	6
Villa Belen	Itaya River	29	29		1	1

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Urban Schools, Northeastern Peru
These schools are located in the urban area of the city of Iquitos, the “Capital of the Peruvian Amazon.” Internet access is available. The students from these secondary schools play a key role in rainforest conservation. They frequently conduct rain forest fairs and community outreach projects. Sponsorship money is used to fund special community projects; classroom improvement, especially in the areas of instructional technology; and teacher training programs.

School	Location	No. of Students	Primary	Secondary	No. of Teachers	Number of Sponsorships Needed
Colegio Nacional Iquitos	Iquitos	3179		3179	173	173
Ntra. Sra. De Fatima	Iquitos	481		481	19	19
Rosa de America	Iquitos	145		145	13	13
San Martin de Porres	Iquitos	622		622	37	37

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Rural Schools, Southeastern Peru
These small, rural schools are located near Puerto Maldonado along the Madre de Dios River and its tributaries, such as the Tambopata River. The educational needs of these schools are very great and very basic. They do not have Internet access. Sponsorship money is used for classroom improvement, teacher training, and community service projects.

School	Location	No. of Students	Primary	Secondary	No. of Teachers	Number of Sponsorships Needed
Bajo Piedras	Madre de Dios River	34	34		1	1
Centro Educativeo Tecnico Artesanal Hermosa Grnde	Native Village of Infierno, Tambopata River	12	12		1	1
Palma Real	Madre de Dios River	65	65		1	1
Sonene (I)	Hit Communidad River	14	14		1	1
Vuelta Grande	Madre de Dios River	10	10		1	1

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