Education for children in Ecuador

Classes have restarted for the new academic year in Ecuador where we continue to pay for local teachers and maintaining one teacher per class. We will also continue to pay for internet in the school and running costs including cleaning products to keep the classrooms as safe as possible as the pandemic continues. 

We have resumed purchasing cows in Plan Moo which will sustainably cover the teachers’ salaries in the coming years. Over the course of the coming months we plan to add to our herd which not only will provide income for the school and its costs though also additional income for local families who will look after the cows and share in the proceeds.

We currently educate children from four different communities. Once these costs are covered sustainably we plan to replicate our work in other communities in the region to offer education to many more children and teenagers.

This year The Phoenix Projects are celebrating twenty years in Latin America and thanks to you around five thousand children, teenagers and adults have been able to receive a quality education during this time in Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Perú and previously in Brazil, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

We have built schools, extra classrooms, kitchens and energy efficient stoves, provided employment for dozens of local people, planted hundreds of thousands of trees, distributed educational materials, daily meals and hundreds of tonnes of fruit and implemented sustainable income plans on an average annual budget of around $100,000/£85,000.

Additionally, over three hundred families have benefitted from the implementation of sustainable income plans including cows, chickens, weaving, vegetables and small businesses.

To celebrate our 20^th Anniversary we are launching this year’s Appeal today and all donations up to $50/£40 through this page will be matched at 50% by GlobalGiving from Monday 12th September - today - until Friday 16^th September. Larger donations can of course be made although the matching will only apply to the first $50/£40 and only once per individual donor.

We still have so much more we want to do over the coming years with the experience we have gained, including replicating the projects in other communities with sustainable plans covering running costs from the start.

Your continued support in helping to fund local teachers’ salaries and scholarships, school materials, food and sustainable income plans is as important now as it has been in the last twenty years.

We realise that times are uncertain though anything you can donate to the Appeal through this page this week to take advantage of the 50% matching will help us start the next twenty years in the best possible way!

Thank you so much in advance.