Education for children in Ecuador

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Your donations allow us to continue to help neglected and remote communities receive an education here in Ecuador. The end of the school year is upon us with the children getting accustomed to travelling each day to the centralized school. We await the government decision as to whether the school will be moved yet further down the mountain in September. Muenala should be fully sustainable from September, including further education, thanks to the sustainable plans we have implemented these past years. 

Thank you for your support thus far and thank you now for helping us build a better future.

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As part of the Fly The Phoenix Seven Continent Charity Challenge on Saturday 6th June, the communities themselves will be undertaking events to raise awareness and funds. In Ecuador our local teachers, students and families will be hiking around Lake Cuicocha. Please sponsor the communities as we strive to move towards sustainability over the next few years by donating to this page.

It has been a brilliant few months on the projects. The children are slowly getting used to the centralized school and we continue to provide daily transport up and down the mountains so they can continue to study whilst also providing breakfast and daily fruit. Our local teachers who are giving afternoon reinforcement classes back in the communities report that the children are learning quickly with them - the importance of our local teachers cannot be stressed enough as the larger class sizes in the new centralized school leads to many children being left behind. By offering our afternoon classes this is minimalized.

Our Plan Pollo, where we introduced egg-laying chickens in the classrooms of the now-closed local schools, is coming along very well with the first eggs being laid two weeks ago. This should help sustain future costs of the school and provide the local community with extra income for medicines etc

Thank you all for your support these past few months and please do support the communities on their challenge on 6th June by donating to this page