Education for children in Ecuador

Our work in Ecuador continues at pace with our new local Phoenix teachers helping to reduce the teacher to class ration. Much of the science classes have been dedicated to learning about Natural Disasters, their inherent risks and how to avoid them – the children got quite artistic and as part of next year’s Ecuador Charity in June we hope to reforest some of the surrounding area. The children and teachers took part in the Baile Cayambeño wearing the traditional dress from Cayambe. New Phoenix teacher Cristian donned his traditional mask! We hope to repaint the whole school in December, the first time in years, so 2019 will get off to a great start! To celebrate the traditional Day of the Dead, we celebrated with Colada Morada and breads with the children and parents in the school – it is so important to continue such traditions.

Our Appeal this year, in conjunction with Giving Tuesday on 27^th November, aims to raise funds towards our local teachers’ salaries and materials for 2019. On average each teacher will educate between 25-30 children per class and will often teach more than one class so the more teachers we can bring on board for 2019, the more children we can give a vital education to whether this is primary, secondary or college.

Our local Phoenix teachers are the backbone of the projects. Their daily dedication to hundreds of indigenous children in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and Perú cannot be commended enough. They are the future of the projects as well as their communities and we must guarantee this future with funding, both through donations in the short term and through sustainable income plans over the medium to long term.

For example in Ecuador we took on Cristian this year who grew up in the community where we teach and

Over the next two months we hope to raise a large proportion of the $100,000 we plan to spend during 2019 on local teachers and materials so please do dig deep this Giving Tuesday on 27^th November if you can and donate to this page or even crowd fund with friends, family and co-workers in your office or school and aim for one teacher’s salary for the whole year!

Examples:
$3,725 can cover 1 teacher for 25-30 children for one year
$1,860 can cover1 teacher for 25-30 children for six months
$930 can cover 1 teacher for 25-30 children for three months
$310 can cover 1 teacher for 25-30 children for one month

$180 can cover 1 child for one year
$90 can cover 1 child for six months
$45 can cover 1 child for three months
$15 can cover 1 child for one month

On behalf of all the communities where we work, thank you so much in advance for anything you, friends and family can donate for the communities and their future!