Fund a teacher and teach a class in Latin America

I hope all is well with you. To celebrate Giving Tuesday today all donations up to £2,000/$2,500 will be partially matched with a share of a $1.2 million pot which is a fantastic opportunity for the projects. Last year this amounted to a 25% matching on all donations.

All funds raised today from 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 spent on The Phoenix Projects in Latin America over the following twelve months. As you can see clearly we were able to accomplish one quarter of our work in Latin America thanks to your generous support to the Appeal, including the annual Giving Tuesday partial matching. 

To take advantage of the partial matching today please donate to this page and thank you so much in advance.

It has been a great month on the projects with graduations in Guatemala. Some of our college scholarship students celebrated their graduation in Business Administration early in November. More ceremonies are due at the end of the month. One of the successes of the scholarship programme is seeing so many more girls staying in education past primary school and going on to graduate from both secondary school and then college.

Independence Day was celebrated with various festivities and cultural events at the lake. All our secondary school and college scholarship students played a large part in the day’s events having spent the previous day planting trees.

In Perú we celebrated seventeen years working in Maldonado with traditional dance and food. Our local teacher Edy Luz has been with us from the beginning and must take huge credit for everything that she has achieved over the years with the children’s education, especially during the pandemic. 

The children’s daily food from the government continues to be augmented with the vegetables from the garden. We pay for the gas to heat the food as well as buying fruit each day.

With the national elections in Ecuador now over for another couple of years the teachers are getting to grips with any changes the new government is planning to put in.

Kulla Raymi was celebrated in the community. This is an indigenous ceremony asking Pachamama (Mother Earth) for fertility for the land and therefore good crops. This year’s celebration was especially poignant as an El Niño/climate change dry spell has hit the communities causing us to pause the purchase of cows in Plan Moo. 

As is tradition we celebrated Day of the Dead at the end of October with colada morada (fruit drink) and homemade bread with the students and their families.

Have a great December and thank you so much in advance for anything you can donate today to the Appeal so we can receive the Giving Tuesday matching.

Cheers