Education for children in Ecuador

I hope all is well with you. It has been a great few months on the projects with the school year coming to an end and our local Phoenix teachers have done a fantastic job. Over the years we have helped local University students with their educational costs in exchange for them helping out in the school and this year there were more graduations!

After twenty years working in Urcusiqui and with the government now taking on a more progressive role with primary education with more teachers and university students helping out in the classrooms we can now concentrate on new projects and communities. The income generated from the sustainable plans we have put in over the years where we have worked will help to cover any of the school’s extra costs moving forwards sustainably.

We are now able to expand our work to other communities thanks to your continued donations with an emphasis on students and families with varying disabilities as well as all levels of education. Paulina and David, who lost part of his leg during last year's protests, will be playing a major role with our new projects with mothers and students with varying disabilities living in extreme poverty to help with education, health and daily food for the family including elderly relatives.

We aim to introduce small sustainable income plans which can be undertaken at home for each family to help with extra income. One such plan includes rearing and harvesting crickets as a cheap and easy source of protein which can be eaten at home as well as sold. We will be trialling this over the coming months. We will also help with school supplies for students so they can remain in education.

Thank you so much for your support over the years and we really hope you continue to support our new projects in the future. We’ll keep you posted in a couple of months!

Cheers

I hope all is well with you. 2026 has got off to a great start with classes back underway for the second half of the school year which ends in June. We continue to fund three local teachers as well as internet and essential classroom materials. Investigations continue to identify new areas of critical need in the region which we will support over the coming years including students with varying disabilities and further education. 

A really exciting opportunity for the projects starts today (Tuesday 17th March) with GlobalGiving matching all donations up to $50 (£38) by 50% from 10am EDT until 10pm EDT on Friday 20th March whilst funds last and we want to take this opportunity to achieve something specific together. Please be aware that the matching funds do run out quite quickly so please donate today or early tomorrow to take full advantage. Also, the matching only applies once per individual donor.

We hope to raise $1,250 (£1,000) over the next few days which will cover one month’s salary of our three local Phoenix teachers helping to provide education to over seventy children. 

For example we can reach that target over the next four days with just over eighty donations of $10 plus the $5 matching = $15 or £8 +£4 matching + £2 Gift Aid for UK taxpayers. Obviously if you can donate more, even better.

Thank you so much for anything you can donate today as we aim to reach our target and we'll keep you posted on how the school is coming along in the next couple of months.

Cheers