Education for 400 children in Guatemala

As 2021 draws to a close we would like to thank first and foremost all the local teachers for continuing to teach the students to the best of their ability with the resources available, whether this was in limited classroom-based environments or heading out to their homes when they could to give out and collect homework and set topics in the students’ textbooks. Thank you also to everyone who has supported the projects this year in what has once again been a very difficult time all round.

Our first priority in 2022 is obviously to keep the projects going and the students educated. Once this has been achieved we can start implementing more sustainable income plans with the families which will provide them with continued income into the future.

We are increasing the number of secondary, college and University scholarship students in Guatemala to one hundred from seven different communities. Many are mature students with serious underlying health conditions who couldn’t continue studying without the scholarships. We will be building a bigger area for our Plan Costura sewing business for single mothers as demand is outstripping available space! More mothers are entering the programme as the income helps them with any extra costs for their children in primary school, like textbooks.

We are now helping to cover education from primary school to University through scholarships and sustainable plans, which was our original aim, and a further step towards reaching our goal of facilitating education to between 600-1000 students a year.

Thank you all once again for your continued support and all the best for 2022.

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I hope all is well with you. To celebrate Giving Tuesday today all donations will be supplemented with a share of a $1 million fund from GlobalGiving. If you can, please donate to this page today to take advantage of this fantastic opportunity from GlobalGiving for the projects with your donation making even more impact! All today’s donations will be part of this year’s Fly The Phoenix Appeal which will go towards scholarships for secondary and college education.

In a bid to neutralize the projects’ carbon footprint from day-to-day activities which include boat travel for the students in Guatemala, pickup transport for the students in Honduras and teachers’ transport up into the mountains in Ecuador and desert in Perú we, Fly The Phoenix, are planting a tree for every $15 raised.

Many of our college scholarship students graduated. A fantastic effort as classroom-based teaching has not been possible since March 2020 and they have had to travel from the six communities where they live around the lake to collect homework from the central school.

We plan to increase the number of scholarship students for 2022. Many of our scholarship students have serious underlying health conditions which had previously prevented them from continuing their studies due to economic constraints until now with some just starting their secondary education in their twenties.

The first 150 trees were planted at Lake Atitlán thanks to this year’s Appeal as we aim to reduce the carbon footprint of the day-to-day activities of the projects. More are due to be planted this coming month.

We also purchased several solar-lights for families without electricity which allows the students continue to study after dark. The sewing project for the single mothers continues to be successful. We are opening it up to more mothers and the elderly so more income can be spread around.

Many thanks for anything you can donate to this page today to take advantage of the bonus funding.

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