By Dom Williams | Founder and Director
For the first time ever in Ecuador we celebrated a Christmas party including all the children, parents and grand-parents from Muenala, Huayrapungo, Achupallas and Urcusiqui. Adding another Phoenix teacher, Cristian, has really helped lessen the teacher/class ratio and David has continued his fine work. The community got together for a "Minga" to paint the school which hadn't been done for years. We supllied the paint and they supplied the man (and woman!) power.
Bringing the year to an end the community celebrated Kapak Raymi where soil is placed on recently sown seeds, asking Pachamama (Mother Earth) for a good crop in 2019.
With 2019 ushering in the second half of the school year we hope to add further teachers for the start of the new school year in September whilst concentrating on the implementation of a variety of sustainable plans within the communities during the year.
Thank you so much to everyone who has donated to this year’s Appeal, raising funds to go towards the $100,000 we plan to spend during 2019 on local teachers and materials. One final push by donating to this page and we can reach our targets so please do dig deep if you can 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 1 teacher for 25-30 children for one year
$1,860 1 teacher for 25-30 children for six months
$930 1 teacher for 25-30 children for three months
$310 1 teacher for 25-30 children for one month
$180 1 child for one year
$90 1 child for six months
$45 1 child for three months
$15 1 child for one month
Thank you to everyone who has signed up to the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu Challenge from 26th-31st May. There are now no spots left due to the official limited numbers allowed on the trail each day. Due to demand we will be running a second challenge in tandem, the Salkantay Trek, with both finishing at Machu Picchu on the same day. We have only six places remaining so please do get in touch if you are interested.
The following week we will be taking on the Ecuador Challenge, including volcanoes Fuya Fuya and Imbabura. A great group is forming for that one too so please do get in touch with dom@thephoenixprojects.org if you are interested in either challenge, or indeed both!
Thank you so much to all of you who have helped us continue our work this year with regular donations, charity challenge participation and one-off donations. To coin the old cliché, we couldn´t have done it without you!
Have a great 2019!
Cheers
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