By Dom Williams | Founder and Director
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
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