Physical Health Guatemala Project #11973

Food & fruit for primary schools in Latin America

by Fly The Phoenix

Project Report | Sep 18, 2023
The 2023 Appeal launched today with bonus matching

By Dom Williams | Founder and Director

Good harvest

I hope all is well.

We are launching the 2023 Appeal today (Monday 18^th September) and GlobalGiving will be matching all individual donations of up to £40/$50 by 50% between now and Friday 22^nd September which is a fantastic opportunity for the projects. All money raised with this year’s Appeal will be put towards our local teachers’ salaries, scholarships, classroom materials, daily fruit and sustainable plans.

Last year's Appeal, launched in September 2022, raised an incredible £21,000/$26,000 towards the £85,000/$106,000 we have spent on The Phoenix Projects in Latin America over the past twelve months.

As you can see clearly, we were able to accomplish one quarter of our work in Latin America over the past year thanks to your generous support to the Appeal. If we can get close to that figure once again for this year's Appeal we will be able to achieve so much more in 2024 so if you can donate this week please follow this link.

The children in Perú are getting more involved in the school vegetable garden and receive classes in irrigation types, planting, the growing process and of course harvest (which is obviously the most popular part!). With the extended Plan Huerto we have been able to provide more nutritious food for the children each day with extra being shared with the local families. Our daily fruit programme continues as well as supplying gas for the state-sponsored lunches.

In Guatemala work continues on the school vegetable garden in one of the communities where our scholarship students live. This is a trial project and if successful we plan to replicate these gardens over several schools in the coming years.

In Ecuador our Plan Moo project (cows) continues to provide fresh milk for the families and obviously the children on a daily basis. The stove we purchased some months back is helping to keep the children fed with the limited resources the government provides each month. It is hoped, funds permitting, we can increase this over the coming months and years.

Have a great rest of September and anything you can donate this week so we can take advantage of the matching and get this year’s Appeal off to a great start would be fantastic and thank you so much in advance.

Cheers

School Plan Huerto

Plan Moo

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Jul 20, 2023
Fly The Phoenix in Latin America update

By Dom Williams | Founder and Director

Fanesca in Ecuador

I hope all is well with you. We have had a fantastic few months on the projects in Latin America including two Charity Challenges to raise much needed funds for the schools. We are already planning three challenges for 2024 which can be seen by following the link at the bottom of this newsletter.

The annual community work trip in Perú with Impington International College, Cambridge, UK was undertaken with twenty-seven students fundraising and working in the school. One of the major projects was to double the size of the school vegetable garden and install drip-irrigation. The school’s first orchard was planted with drip-irrigation. In a few years the children should be enjoying avocados, apples and peaches. In the photo below you can see the installation of the drip-irrigation system for the extended Plan Huerta.

As is custom, the trip was finished off with a party with the children’s parents and grandparents also invited to enjoy food and folkloric dance. Mothers’ Day was also celebrated earlier with a display of folkloric dance by the children as well as gifts and a hearty lunch for everyone.

Work has begun preparing the ground for a vegetable garden in a local school in one of the communities where our scholarship students live in Guatemala. The harvests will go towards daily meals in the school and any extra shared amongst the families, especially the elderly.

Parents of all four communities got together to celebrate Mothers’ Day in Ecuador in the school with folkloric dance and food. We provided the ingredients for a full meal for the mothers which was cooked by the fathers and shared with the children.

Over the summer we plan to increase our Plan Moo herd which will help cover the local teachers’ salaries in the future as well as providing much needed income for the local families to help cover secondary school and college education as well as extra food for the family.

All the best from the projects and we’ll update you again in a couple of months.

Cheers

Food for the children

Food preparation

Orchard and vegetable garden in Peru

Vegetable garden in Guatemala

Links:

Charity Challenges 2024

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Apr 3, 2023
$50 matched by 50% this week for Latin America

By Dom Williams | Founder and Director

Food in Ecuador

I hope all is well with you. From Monday 3rd until the end of Friday 7^th April, GlobalGiving will be matching the first $50 of all individual donations to this page by 50% which is a fantastic opportunity for the projects, the children and members of the communities where we work. Thank you so much in advance for anything you can donate this week helping us continue our work in Latin America with the additional bonus of the matching!

You may have seen mention in the past of the week-long Charity Challenges that Fly The Phoenix undertake each year to raise funds for the projects and have thought about getting involved. This year we will be taking on the Lost City Charity Challenge in Colombia in May and the Inca Trail in Perú in July and it would be great to have you on the team if you are interested. For information on the challenges please follow the link below.

Daily meals are now cooked on the new stove we purchased in 2022 in Ecuador using the limited ingredients provided by the government each month or so. One of our plans this year is to put in place a large school vegetable garden which will provide regular vegetables for both consumption and for sale to be able to buy other ingredients that can’t be grown in the mountains. As is custom, Pawkar Raymi was recently celebrated, asking Pachamama (Mother Earth) for a good harvest, made more pertinent this year with the current abnormal climate.

The school vegetable garden in Perú is ready for its third harvest which will provide daily food for the children this year. We plan to increase the size later in the year. We continue to provide daily fruit for the children as well as supplying gas for the stove.

We have several large community celebrations coming up where we will supplying the food for all the children. With the sustainable plans that we hope to implement this year there will be more regular food for all the children which has always been our aim.

Have a great April and if you can donate to this page this week to receive the 50% matching on the first $50 it would be fantastic and thank you in advance. Also if you are interested in getting involved in the charity challenges, please do get in touch through the link below.

Cheers

Ecuador

Pawkar Raymi

Vegetable garden in Peru

Links:

Colombia and Peru Charity Challenges 2023

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