Education for children in Ecuador

We have finished our first steps of our new trial project, Plan Moo, whereby we have provided milk producing cows (ie, with young) to members of one community. The idea being, the money made from the sales of the milk goes towards secondary education for years to come. If the pilot proves successful, we will role out Plan Moo in many more communities. The rule is the children must go to school and the calf must be returned to us, to keep the scheme ticking over. Many thanks in advnace.

The average rate of transition into secondary school is less than 10% for indigenous children in Ecuador. In our communities we are now looking at an 80% transition rate into secondary school for next year! Almost 20 children will be starting secondary school education in September, adding to the seven children who started secondary education last year and will move up a grade.

Links:

• GVI Phoenix Blog