Food & fruit for primary schools in Latin America

This Giving Tuesday on 28^th November we would like you to know where your fantastic donations have gone in the past and will continue going now and in the future, thank you in advance! Daily education isn’t only about the teachers and daily food and fruit. Each year The Phoenix Projects also strive to provide classroom materials, teaching materials, teachers’ tools, exam papers, graduation costs, celebrations including Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Day of the Child, school trips, transport, cleaning products, cleaners, soaps, toilet rolls, drinking water, first aid, internet, electricity, gas, rent, maintenance and painting, construction, scholarships…and of course, the teachers!

It has been a great few weeks in the schools and we look forward to 2018 when we hope to increase our food and fruit program as we add yet more students. We will also be implementing sustainable plans to include agriculture and fruit trees with one eye on a sustainable future.

I will be touch later in the year to give you a further update and year review, I just wanted to reach out and ask for your help this Giving Tuesday to continue our essential work for the children and the communities now and in the future..

cheers

It has been a struggle to maintain our full food programs during 2017 due to lack of funds, though we have managed to keep some basic schemes going and also using funds to be able to celebrate events with all the children, for example in Perú and Guatemala with recent celebrations and elections.

We aim to invest money over the coming couple of years so the families themselves can grow their own fruit sustainably. Obviously it takes time for fruit trees to become productive though we have to start somewhere. Recently a talk was given to the mothers in Guatemala of the benefits of rice, which was very well received.

With other sustainable plans now being able to put money back into the projects, with donatins and this extra income, we hope that our food programs in the future will be restarted and the children can recieve at least one good meal a day.

Cheers