Education for 500 children in Guatemala

The scholarship students have been involved in our annual reforestation programme planting hundreds of trees which helps offset Phoenix’s carbon footprint in all our countries. This includes daily transport our teachers take as well as flights taken for our charity challenges and the annual Impington school trip to Peru. Several more planting days will be undertaken as we aim to plant over two thousand trees each year.

All the children and families we support from different communities around the lake live in extreme poverty. They are unable to purchase even the simplest classroom materials, never mind the monthly costs of further education. Weeks are spent visiting different communities to identify the families in most need to make sure all our scholarships are awarded to the students who really need them. We currently help three hundred and fifty primary school students and one hundred secondary and college students. 

We are putting a lot of emphasis on a school for students with varying disabilities and seeing where we can help out on top of supplying school materials. Gaspar, our project manager, volunteers in the school at least once a week to get a feel for what we can do in the future. 

Construction of the new Plan Costura (sewing business) centre continues at pace with work now concentrated on the interior, including digging deep holes into the rock for the septic tank. Once finished the centre will provide training and work opportunities for dozens of women and teenagers.

Thank you so much for your continued support for our work in Guatemala, it truly does mean so much for the communities where we work.