Food & fruit for primary schools in Latin America

We celebrated Mother’s Day and the Maldonado Anniversary in May in Perú, with plenty of traditional dancing, gifts and food which was a fantastic event for the community at large. The daily fruit program continues with success. In Ecuador, David, our local Phoenix teacher and in charge of sustainable plans has been busy teaching the children about various types of vegetables and how to grow them in the school garden. These are trials as well to see what grows well and what doesn’t and we can expand Plan Huerto (vegetable gardens) in the communities later this year. The produce is currently used to supplement school meals. In Honduras, our small food business continues to grow, with some proceeds going back into the school costs whilst providing the students with cheap food to eat. The community as a whole wants it to expand - we'll need a couple more stoves for that one!

Our annual Seven Continent Charity Challenge #4 which raises funds for all our projects across Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and Perú was a huge success in May, biking, kayaking, hiking and “volcanoing” our way to Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, covering over 75kms. There is still time to support the cause by donating to this page and thank you!

A date for your diary for 2019: The Seven Continent Charity Challenge #5 will be the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu in Perú from 27-31^st May – please contact us if you are interested on dom@thephoenixprojects.org . There are limited spaces so please let us know as soon as you can!

Have a fantastic June and we’ll be in touch in August with another update! Cheers

This year we continue to try to make our food programs more sustainable by planting school vegetable gardens, fruit trees and starting small food businesses. Honduras has been the forerunner in this with the Plan Tienda (shop) making food to sell in the local area with profits going back into the school and also food for the students. We are also adding to the vegetable gardens up in the hills. In Ecuador the school vegetable garden is flourishing. As ever, the children enjoy a good plate of food with every event and we hope to keep our daily programs in all projects running.  

Plans for the 4^th Annual Seven Continent Charity Challenge are underway where we ask anyone, anywhere in the world to do a fundraising event for Phoenix during 2018. It doesn’t have to be a huge event; from a dinner or BBQ party at home to walking, running or undertaking something you have always wanted to do though havn’t got round to it! The fundraising can be done through this page with funds going to Phoenix, the schools and more importantly the children.

For those looking for an excuse to head to Lake Atitlán in Guatemala and raise funds for the projects, we are organising a 4-day biking, volcano hiking and kayaking challenge between 21st to 26th May. Please let us know if you are interested in joining us, or even organizing your own challenge and we’ll add you to the list and give you tips to make it as successful as possible.

As ever, thank you all for your brilliant support.

Cheers

Links:

• Contact us to join the Guatemala Challenge in May
• Get involved in the 2018 Seven Continent Charity Challenge