Education for 400 children in Guatemala

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.

Cheers