Education for children in Ecuador

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 

Now into the third month of 2015 and the children are slowly but surely getting used to their new education in the centralized school. We continue to fund daily transport to and from their mountain comunities by pick-up truck which allows them this education which otheriwse probably wouldn't have been possible, especially for the smaller children, due to having to walk miles each day. We continue to provide bread and fruit aswell. To counterract the possible confusion of the children being in bigger classrooms and new teachers we pay for our two local teachers who were once ex-students to give afternoon classes back in the communities; this way we hope that no child is left behind.

Our sustainable Plan Pollo (chickens and eggs) is coming along very well with first eggs due in a few weeks. The income from the egg sales will not only help sustain the daily costs of transporting the children to school it will also bring in much needed income and employment to the rural communities. It is hoped we will expand Plan Pollo over the coming months.

Thanks to all our donors who make this possible each day and have a great March