Educate 120 Girls in Cusco for Economic Survival

THE FABULOUS Maria School news:

Monday, our Dynamo CW Administrator Ruth (Pictured here) who has been pounding on the Cusco Ministry of Education office door DAILY for several months, finally spoke to the new boss, and to avoid more delays, she drove him and his 4 gov. officials to our Maria school to see how it more than meets the state requirements and must open. He signed the document of Permission to open the school. Official school year opened on March 1, 2023. After 3 years of lock-down for Covid and presidential impeachment and more political strikes and unrest – we can now enroll our first students, albeit a month late this school year. Patience and persistence paid off.
 
NOW (though late) the publicity to attract parents to our private tuition school to best prepare their children for national and international universities. However, once again CW is challenged to leap over new obstacls to register students already 3 weeks past deadline now in other schools. We hope to re-register students in our Tuition-based Maria school. Ruth and team, friends, her family and others who have been calling and asking when? Are busy contacting them parents and hope they will switch to our Maria school.

Political mood today: the military, their rifles and water tanks have left the city of Cusco and people are now allowed to leave their homes for work, shopping and food. Children can calmly go to school. The chaos has calmed down, though no new election is scheduled to elect another President. Peruvian citizens are accustomed to no decent leadership - 6 presidents in 6 years tells this story.

Tourism is the main economic driver of this ancient historic Incan city and there are few tourists in Cusco still. Our long-term CW member, Efrain an active CW board member says that most countries have a travel warning posted on their websites and his tour business has a bare trickle of travelers, but number growing. The shops are open as is Machu Picchu waiting for tourists again.

The Chicuchas Wasi tuition-free school for poor girls reopened March 1. After the last few years studying mostly home school, our 110+ girls are really happy to be back in their classrooms with their friends. The CW Alumnae girls trickle in here and there to talk to their old teachers and admin. and often to receive advice.
 
START-UP FUNDS ARE REALLY NEEDED NOW to pay the 3 teachers (3 grades) to jump start our tuition-based college prep Maria School. As we fill the grades the tuition income will pay the teachers and grow as enrollment does to eventually pay for the operating budget for both, the CW tuition free Girls school and the tuition-based Maria school.         
                         
                  PLEASE DONATE 

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/educate-120-poor-girls-in-cusco-for-economic-survival/
 
Gloria Vera is the Maria school Director and has been assist. director under Ruth for 23 years and ready to take on this position. Ruth will be the administrator of both schools and remain Director for the CW girl’s school.

Thank you all for standing with us and the CW students as we together climbed over the hurdles of the last 3 years. We have the best teachers and CW team who have become incredibly empowered women, really impressing us all with their united solidarity to confront the many obstacles that we have had. We expect to achieve the same success at the Maria School. Several CW lead teachers have offered to help start up the Maria School with their leadership skills to prepare our new teachers in our empowerment based style of education.

Please donate to this transition period that has finally arrived. With your financial support we will get this school year off and running to the successful long term academic program ONLY CW provides in Cusco. We will be financially self-sufficient to provide quality longevity education for Cusco children.

Maria School business plan to support CW school for girls 

Soon we will generate good income to support the Maria school as well as the Chicuchas Wasi school for girls as it reaches full student enrollment. 

Cusco parents who demand quality private school education for their college bound children, plan to educate them at very competitive foreign and national universities. We really need your donations for this start-up move for longevity success in Peru. This is the perfect business for CW.org as the demand is high here. Covid permanently closed down many private schools that were functioning unregulated in small rented buildings before Covid. The CW Maria school is a beautiful modern and colorful primary school built to deliver quality education and welcomed by the Ministry of Education.

Meanwhile please help us keep the CW girls school open. Until the Maria School enrollment is generating enough income, we will still need your support to maintain the Chicuchas Wasi School for girls that we continue to deliver at no charge to our poor families. Please see PIE and donate. Thank you so much for the gift of education for girls. See images of CW Girls school and the new Maria School

Chicuchas Wasi School for Girls says THANK YOU !!
Your continued support makes the difference!

CW's future when the (tuition-based ) 'Maria Tuition School' classes are filled, will be self-supporting. Covid upset our plans to open the Maria school in 2020 due to strict lock-down. We will begin enrolling Maria School's new students ASAP this year 2023.

NOTE: Thank you all for hanging in there with us. We have a little way to go yet but the impact of our work is self evident in the success of our girls...some are at the university today. 

PLEASE DONATE       
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/educate-120-poor-girls-in-cusco-for-economic-survival/
THANK YOU

Links:

• Official Chicuchas Wasi website-over 30 years