Education for 400 children in Guatemala

I hope all is well with you. To celebrate Giving Tuesday today all donations up to £2,000/$2,500 will be partially matched with a share of a $1.2 million pot which is a fantastic opportunity for the projects. Last year this amounted to a 25% matching on all donations.

All funds raised today as part of this year's Appeal will be put towards our local teachers’ salaries, scholarships, classroom materials and sustainable plans.

Last year's Appeal, launched in September 2022, raised an incredible £21,000/$26,000 towards the £85,000/$106,000 we spent on The Phoenix Projects in Latin America over the following twelve months. As you can see clearly we were able to accomplish one quarter of our work in Latin America thanks to your generous support to the Appeal, including the annual Giving Tuesday partial matching. 

To take advantage of the partial matching today please donate to this page and thank you so much in advance.

It has been a great month on the projects with graduations in Guatemala. Some of our college scholarship students celebrated their graduation in Business Administration early in November. More ceremonies are due at the end of the month. One of the successes of the scholarship programme is seeing so many more girls staying in education past primary school and going on to graduate from both secondary school and then college.

Independence Day was celebrated with various festivities and cultural events at the lake. All our secondary school and college scholarship students played a large part in the day’s events having spent the previous day planting trees.

Have a great December and thank you so much in advance for anything you can donate today to the Appeal so we can receive the Giving Tuesday matching.

Cheers

I hope all is well. 

We are launching the 2023 Appeal today (Monday 18^th September) and GlobalGiving will be matching all individual donations of up to £40/$50 by 50% between now and Friday 22^nd September which is a fantastic opportunity for the projects. All money raised with this year’s Appeal will be put towards our local teachers’ salaries, scholarships, classroom materials, daily fruit and sustainable plans.

A $50 donation this week would gain $25 in matching for a total of $75 - enough for two secondary school scholarships! 

Last year's Appeal, launched in September 2022, raised an incredible £21,000/$26,000 towards the £85,000/$106,000 we have spent on The Phoenix Projects in Latin America over the past twelve months.

As you can see clearly, we were able to accomplish one quarter of our work in Latin America over the past year thanks to your generous support to the Appeal. If we can get close to that figure once again for this year's Appeal we will be able to achieve so much more in 2024 so if you can donate this week please follow the project link on this page.

Recently one of our students was chosen to participate in Riiy Rumaam Tz’utujil Po’p, the election of the community queen. In the rural communities around the lake this is a very important time of year culturally and a great honour even to be part of the election process. She came second.

Work continues on our prototype vegetable garden in one of the communities where our scholarship students come from. If it proves to be a success we will replicate this in other communities. We are also planning to increase our Plan Costure (sewing project) to involve our scholarship students.

Have a great rest of September and anything you can donate this week so we can take advantage of the matching and get this year’s Appeal off to a great start would be fantastic and thank you so much in advance.

Cheers