By Dom Williams | Founder and Director
With 2020 well into it’s second month we want to share with you our plans for the coming year.
We are initiating new projects with single teen mothers (more below) with small business initiatives to help them to continue with their education, giving University scholarships for recently-graduated female teachers and help in overcrowded classrooms, scholarships for secondary school and college students and medical checks for the elderly and sustainable income plans.
We started our new projects with teenage single mothers and Plan Corte sustainable plan where we purchased five sewing machines so they can learn new skills and generate extra income. We are also paying for secondary school and college scholarships for teenagers who can’t afford further education. Over the coming years we hope to purchase new sewing machines to involve more teenage mothers. If this trial is successful we hope to duplicate the program in other areas of Guatemala.
Over the next decade we hope to put between 600-1000 students through secondary school and college with a priority on graduating as teachers.
Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far to our 2020 Appeal. We are just $3,500 and 250 trees short of our target of 10% of our budget for 2020 so if you still wanted to donate, please do so by donating to this page.
The teams are building for our Charity Challenges in Perú and Ecuador in May and June 2020. Whilst our Inca Trail challenge is now full we will be opening up a tandem group via Salkantay to reach Machu Picchu on the same day. For those of you wondering what to do in 2021, we will be taking on one of our hardest challenges yet, Cotopaxi Volcano in Ecuador (which includes some glacier training!) in February and also the Inca Trail once again in May. Please do contact us by following the link to the Challenges below if you want to get involved in any of these events in 2020 or 2021 and help us reach our goals for the decade.
Have a great February and we will keep you updated in a couple of months!
Cheers
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