Education Guatemala Project #1769

Education for 400 children in Guatemala

by Fly The Phoenix

Project Report | Jun 14, 2019
Mid-year update from Fly The Phoenix in Guatemala

By Dom Williams | Founder and Director

We've come a long way since 2002!

Our school in Guatemala nears the mid-way point in the educational year with some excellent exam results. As the school becomes more and more sustainable we are looking to expand our work in different areas in Guatemala, including Lake Atitlán and the Dry Corridor where there is an extreme dearth of educational opportunities.

We always aim to use every cent of donation money as best we can and we feel that investing in local teachers can provide the best “bang for our buck”. Over the years we have seen the huge benefits of taking on local teachers as they are from the same environments as the children so understand the difficulties though also are actual living proof that it is possible no matter your background – they are fantastic role models.

Over the next five years we aim to continue investing in family sustainable income plans which help cover the costs of further education, medical costs and of course income for food for the whole family. Some of the income will go towards covering the projects’ costs too as we aim to increase our work in all the countries! Examples of successful plans include Plan Moo (cows), Plan Huerto (vegetable gardens), Plan Pollo (chickens) and Plan Negocio (small businesses). Hundreds of families have benefited from the plans over the past few years and we plan to triple this numbers over the next few years.

We completed our two Charity Challenges for all our projects in the past couple of weeks, completing the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu in Perú followed by climbing volcanoes in Ecuador, each a week long. We managed to raise some fantastic funds for the projects and will be repeating the challenges next year with the Perú challenge in the week of 25^th May and Ecuador in the week of 1^st June 2020. If you are interested in joining us please do contact me on dom@thephoenixprojects.org and it will be great to have you on board!

Thank you and all the best for the next few months and let us know if you are interested in joining us on the Charity Challenges next year in Ecuador and Perú!

Cheers

Mothers enrolling their children now

Plan Moo helps further education

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Mar 20, 2019
2019 up and running and plans for the year

By Dom Williams | Founder and Director

First day of the school year

I hope all is well with you. We’re almost at the end of the first quarter of 2019; time is flying by! We are now in the second phase of our 25-year cycle; 1) introducing education, 2) introducing sustainable plans to help cover costs of the projects whilst continuing to cover the costs through donations and 3) with the projects sustainable we will concentrate on employment generation for the graduates.

For many years we have introduced education to hundreds of children and seen them continue from primary school, through secondary school and college so for us now to be in the stage where are adding in sustainable plans whilst continuing to cover costs is a huge advance from when we started. Thank you to you all for helping us get this far and for continuing to support us in the future.

It is Charity Challenge season once again and we will be heading to Perú and Ecuador in May to raise funds for all our projects so please do support the challenge by donating to this page.

Our school got off to a great start in Itzapa with all eight grades of classrooms full and being taught by our local teachers, most of whom came through the system with us from the start (phase 1!). Just the other day we bumped into two of our female students who started with us back in the early 2000’s and who we managed to get experience with a local accountancy firm a few years back: they are both now formally employed with that firm, earning critical income for their families back in the community.

As Guatemala was our first country we are well into the second phase of the cycle with the community taking more control and decision making of the day-to-day running of the school which is essential for future sustainability.

Thank you and all the best for the next few months and we will update you on the goings on, especially the Perú and Ecuador challenges!

Cheers

Final preparations for 2019

Art class

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Dec 28, 2018
Happy New Year and looking ahead to 2019

By Dom Williams | Founder and Director

Local Phoenix Teachers

As 2018 draws to a close here is a brief look back at the year and more importantly a glimpse at what 2019 has in store! It has been a good year in Guatemala with over 200 children receiving pre-school and primary education as the community continues to takes more control in the running and direction of the school over the coming years. Our sustainable plans we have already put in place continue to help the students continue their studies.

Looking ahead to 2019 money generated within the community through sustainable income plans should start to help cover the basic costs of the school including rent, internet and materials. Our donations will go towards this too as well as salaries as we continue to give opportunities to recently graduated teachers to gain important experience.

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated to this year’s Appeal, raising funds to go towards the $100,000 we plan to spend during 2019 on local teachers and materials across all our projects. One final push by donating to this page and we can reach our targets so please do dig deep if you can or even crowd fund with friends, family and co-workers in your office or school and aim for one teacher's salary for the whole year!

Examples:

$3,725 1 teacher for 25-30 children for one year
$1,860 1 teacher for 25-30 children for six months
$930 1 teacher for 25-30 children for three months
$310 1 teacher for 25-30 children for one month

$180 1 child for one year
$90 1 child for six months
$45 1 child for three months
$15 1 child for one month

Thank you to everyone who has signed up to the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu Challenge from 26^th-31^st May. There are now no spots left due to the official limited numbers allowed on the trail each day. Due to demand we will be running a second challenge in tandem, the Salkantay Trek, with both finishing at Machu Picchu on the same day. We have only six places remaining so please do get in touch if you are interested.

The following week we will be taking on the Ecuador Challenge, including volcanoes Fuya Fuya and Imbabura. A great group is forming for that one too so please do get in touch with dom@thephoenixprojects.org if you are interested in either challenge, or indeed both!

Thank you so much to all of you who have helped us continue our work this year with regular donations, charity challenge participation and one-off donations. To coin the old cliché, we couldn´t have done it without you!

Have a great 2019!

Cheers

Teaching

Kids

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Charity Challenges for 2019

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