By Dom Williams | Founder and Director
I hope all is well with you. It has been a great few months on the projects thanks to your continued support for which we are extremely grateful.
Graduations took place at the end of the school year in July for the students finishing primary school. Thanks to our local Phoenix teachers working in the classrooms the children were able to receive a full education. All eleven students graduated!
With the holiday now over, classes are back underway and we will continue to pay for three local Phoenix teachers, classroom materials and internet as well as cultural events until Plan Cuy (more below) starts generating income to help cover some of these costs.
The guinea pigs have been introduced to get our Plan Cuy sustainable plan up and running. Alfalfa is grown in land around the building for their feed. After a shy start they seem to be getting on really well and we should see increased numbers over the coming weeks. The aim is for the plan to produce five hundred guinea pigs in cycles with the income covering costs in the school.
The 20th Anniversary Ecuador charity challenge was completed including a very festive day in the community! Three volcanoes and a hike in the area surrounding Otavalo were undertaken. As part of the 20th Anniversary celebrations we spent a day in the school. All members of the families from all the communities were invited for plenty of dance and food. We got to see the Plan Cuy construction as well which has been built thanks to fundraising from the challenge.
Thank you to everyone who supported the challenge and hopefully see some of you on the Colca Canyon Challenge in June or July 2026 (we have two dates in case people can’t make one though can make the other!) to celebrate our 20th Anniversary in Perú! For more information please follow the link below.
Once again, thank you so much for your continued support to help us make all this happen and we’ll update you once again in the next couple of months.
Cheers
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