Gender Equality Peru Project #13129

Educate 120 Girls in Cusco for Economic Survival

by Chicuchas Wasi

Educate 120 Girls in Cusco for Economic Survival

Project Report | Jun 20, 2014
Chicuchas Wasi happy days are here

By Diana Rae Lewis | Founder and President

Kindergarten student rides the CW Van to school

Our girls don't have to walk miles in the rain and mud..

THANKS to YOU

*** Special Opportunity below***

In the Cusco countryside you see little girls walking alone and carrying old plastic containers to fetch water from a communal water source all the time, but it is not safe. Girls alone are at risk most of the time, so CW has a system where we provide the CW school van to pick up and deliver all students every day with 3 shifts of student trips that line up with their class start time.

Also, the constant rain in Cusco has kept the unpaved rural roads full of holes and sloppy clay. Children who attend school must walk every day a mile or many more to reach the public school. Imagine the fun of slipping and sliding in that mud leaving many children so wet and happily muddy they don't make it to school at all. Attendance at those schools is not good during rainy season.

Poverty prevents the use of bus service for our students, that other children with money can use. Once at CW school, tour older big girls become the big sisters for another exciting day.The added bonus here is that CW attendance is high the entire school year.

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"A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease and give them the knowledge, skills and confidence to reach their full potential. " - Audry Hepburn

YOUR GENEROSITY is LIFTING these GIRLS
UP and OUT of POVERTY
THANK YOU

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When the last downhill road to the CW school is slippery muddy, the van cannot pass and the students must walk across several fields to reach the van on the better road. Ruth will organize a parent work to clear and fill the trenches from water run off so the van can pass. Just another day at CW.

Thank YOU

For the gift of education and a quality life for these girls.

YOU MAKE THIS HAPPEN FOR THEM

First of 3 shuttles to school for the morning

The younger students would miss school with no VAN

Last of the morning shuttle to school

Arrived to schoo but our road is too muddy for Van

So students must walk across 2 fields to school

Links:

Official Chicuchas Wasi website

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Jun 12, 2014
CW's youngest students are reading and will make you smile..

By Diana Rae Lewis | Founder and President

A shy new kindergarten student begins school

**VERY BIG NEWS - Scroll down to see**

Every March we receive an excited rush of wide-eyed 4 & 5 year old girls who arrive at the Chicuchas Wasi School for Girls for the first time. They are nervous, shy and a bit scared as they enter the school. Promptly they are buddied up with an older student, who acts as a big sister for these little ones guiding them to their classroom. Immediately they bond with the older girls who will help them to adjust to this new environment. They are often the first to go to school in their family and certainly the first female.

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

Within a week the girls have claimed Chicuchas Wasi as THEIR school and are proud to tell the world that they go to THEIR Jardin (Kindergarten.) It takes little time for these new-to-school little ones to feel the circle of love they have entered, to smile widely, make direct eye contact with teachers and staff, and begin to see how special they are.
By the time June rolls around these same girls are more confident, are learning to read and proud in their new blue jumpsuits though they eagerly await the big girls bright red uniform in first grade. They study and play hard with their new friends and freely share hugs with friends and teachers. We are healing hearts daily while expanding their minds.

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The impact of YOUR generosity is immeasurable
Your donations are teaching girls to read & more
THANK YOU for CARING about them

Older students are big sisters-guide little ones

Youngest girls learning to read, they love books

She too can read now...:-))

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May 12, 2014
Chicuchas Wasi salutes ALL mothers

By Diana Rae Lewis | President and Founder

Mothers cook typical Cusco food-festival costume

Happy Mother’s Day to ALL Mothers and to the wonderful Aunties who step up when needed.

Chicuchas Wasi wishes to dedicate this month’s update to all the mothers who live in the shadows and are invisible to most; a mother who quietly stays up all night to make a dress her daughter needs to wear in the morning and then goes to work as a house cleaner, or the mother who drives her son all over town to find him just the right baseball cleats she can’t afford, so he can fit in with the rest of the team. Mothers who sit with us quietly sharing our pain and hold us tight as our heart breaks at the end of a first love. Mothers who cheer our successes and stand next to us with our failures. If we had that kind of mother we were so blessed. But not all of us do. And many mothers that do their very best for their children are not honored - are not valued at all.

Chicuchas Wasi Girls have mothers who have nothing material, nothing at all. They cannot read, write or do basic sums, but most do care and try to give their best, with all their limitations, even if very little.

Our special classes for mothers have lifted the spirits of some of our mothers and today they enthusiastically engage with their daughter's class, choose a lead mother to organize each group of mothers to help with what they can do. Lifted out of depression they present creative ideas to help the teacher and show their daughters they care.

Last year during Cusco’s annual festival to honor the ancient culture of Cusco, each room mother organized her mothers to purchase and prepare food from a village (many villages to choose from) to sell at the school festival - using the money loaned by the Administrator Ruth to buy ingredients. They then compete with other classroom mothers who prepare food from a other villages. A local chef was invited to judge the best representation and taste prepared of the village and the mothers were thrilled if their culinary talent won. The money raised from guests and parents who bought the food was used to repay the loan to Ruth, and then to buy something the class needed. One year they bought DVD players for each class for educational presentations. Each class received a TV donated 2 years ago by a local tour company, so a DVD is useful as no internet is available in this area. This is a win-win for the mothers, girls and the entire class. The girls are proud of their mothers and the mothers of their daughters - a change from the burden of believing your daughter is destined to suffer like her mother.

To every Mother who does her very best with what she has to care for her children - Chicuchas Wasi honors you today.

Education for poor indigenous girls has never been important in Cusco and was not accepted by this rural community until CW opened a special school for these intelligent and curious girls. Mothers and some fathers are now seeing how their daughters are progressing and are very proud of them. We are changing the old beliefs, day by day.

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When I look around our beautiful primary school, I see happy girls in bright red uniforms and a big Van to safely deliver them to and from school. I see 105 hot dishes of hearty nutritious meals being served to hungry students and I see classrooms filled with eager students actively engaged in the process of learning. AND I see the huge impact of YOUR generosity. Your financial donations have made it possible for us to provide free education to girls who would not otherwise receive it.

THANK YOU FOR BELIEVING IN OUR GIRLS

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IMPORTANT NEWS

** CW must be sitting under a very bright star **

WOW An extra Microsoft YouthSpark Bonus Day. The next matching campaign will be on Wednesday, June 25, 2014. There will be $200,000 available in matching funds from Microsoft, and the matching will be applied at 100%! up to $1000 per each donation. More to come next month...

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CW Mothers cook village dish for Cusco festival

Mothers compete for best food prepared

CW cooking and costume festival competition

Mothers, fathers, brothers dance for CW festival

Mother's class to address and help their problems

The Daughters - our CW students - THANK YOU ALL

Links:

Official Chicuchas Wasi web site.

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