TEACHERS are the BACKBONE to EDUCATE GIRLS in Peru

We wish you and your families a healthy, happy and loving 2025 from the CW girls.  

You missed this true story, so I am sending it a bit late so you will have a glimpse of normal CW success. This is how CW greatly impacts the life of a student.

Brisayda is in the 3rd grade and has no family in Cusco. Her parents are from Paucartambo, a small town about 6-7 hours by car from Cusco - pretty far away. Ruth and I have driven to their annual celebration honoring the Virgin Mother several times and impossibly far for family visits. Her father works outside of Cusco in another department, so Brisayda lives with her mother and younger sister. She is very aware of the dysfunction and violence in her family - since she was in first grade and demonstrates insecurity in decision making around her class assignments. Therefore, she was very slow to decide her actions in sharing her work with fellow students.

The CW staff psychologist has intervened with the family {teacher also present and supportive), and it is noted that Brisayda is improving and parents have also improved with the participation in these sessions with the psychologist. She is speaking in front of her class with more confidence to share her classwork, and math problems. Her mother has been learning also with Brisayda while helping her with class assignments and  homework. Both mother and daughter are much improved.

Her mother gives Ruth permission: " Teacher Ruth is sharing this story of my daughter Brisayda in hopes it serves to help other students." The help from CW school community is changing her life and that of her family.

CW REALLLY DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THANK YOU

PLEASE DONATE: 

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/send-disadvantaged-rural-girls-to-school-in-peru/

Please donate to the CW School for Girls - where dreams really do come true for our girls. 

Chicuchas Wasi School for Girls says
THANK YOU 
Your continued support makes the difference!

The Maria School Update:

CW's future when the (tuition-based ) 'Maria Tuition School' classes are filled, will be self-supporting. Covid upset our plans to open the Maria school in 2020 due to strict lock-down that lasted 2 years. We now have 7 students registered for 2025 and more registrations promised in Feb. for the Maria School for March 2025 school year.

NOTE: I Thank you all for hanging in there with us. We have a little way to go yet but the impact of our work is self-evident in the success of our girls...some are at the university today. 

Links:

• Official Chicuchas Wasi web page

Greeting friends.
Please accept my gratitude for helping us get through the funding needed to keep the CW girls school open and free to our 100 girls. Next March when the Maria school opens we hope to grow the income from the Maria student tuition to support both schools. SOON!! We are working with a professional marketing team to help us fill the classrooms. Prayers are appreciated. 

Today we celebrate 38 years dedicated to the many Cusco children in need and delivering academic excellence for our students. We are still challenged financially, but we hope we turned a corner and we will have Maria school students by March 2025 when school begins again. CW school continues in a vibrant high energy with the usual academic activities that fill the days since the last report. Thank you all so much.

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Please DONATE

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Each time we enter this classroom we are blessed with the artwork of our beloved and talented Gloria (photo) who sadly passed on 3 months ago. We miss her so much!
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Some Good News:

There is so much to share with you, Briefly: Sonoma Valley is the founding location of CW and has a few NEW surprises for us. One old, promised, but almost forgotten grant to cover the girls huge multipurpose patio to protect the girls from the hot sun and winter hail - is finally finalizing a permanent strong roof now. it took several years due to funding glitches from granter. 

Surprise NEW grants from local nonprofits: 
1-Sonoma Nonprofits 'Bon Marche Thrift store' and 'Kigali Center for Entrepreneurs' have provided the financial means for the 15 CW families most-in-need to receive a Micro Business suitable for their Andean region. So far ONE family has a portable food cart to prepare and sell tasty local food in good foot traffic areas and thus raising money to feed their family. A SECOND family skilled in sewing clothing received a sewing machine, sewing notions and fabric to begin to serve the public and raise money for the family. There will be THIRTEEN additional families through 2025. Our families will benefit greatly from owning their own business in so many ways.

2- The Sonoma Rotary Club is talking to a very philanthropic and supportive resident who after visiting the school began talking to a Cusco board member about getting a Satellite Tower for the CW school computer lab. As you can see there is magic in the air.

OUR CHALLENGE NOW!
It is disappointing that 2024 was our second school year that the Maria school has been ready for students, but not a single student registered. The reason could be many: economic belt-tightening of many families struggling with the cost inflation of daily basics like food; we need a good professional expert skilled in new school start-ups to attract parents of future college bound students to our modern new Maria School.
                      PLEASE DONATE

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/send-disadvantaged-rural-girls-to-school-in-peru/

FUTURE RISK FOR CHICUCHAS WASI SCHOOL
for girls - with no charge to poor families: 
We have entered a crisis mode since the financial plan going forward for the Chicuchas Wasi school for girls has counted on the expected income from the Maria school to support both school operating budgets. We expected that it would have been generating some income the last two years, but we have had zero income.We are calling all angels now to donate to buy some time to get new boys and girls enrolled. Maria school is beautiful and ready.

THE IMMEDIATE  FINANCIAL PLAN FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS:
Ruth fired the first marketer and is now working with a better one to motivate parents to enroll their boys and girls to our Maria school.

Economically, we have the operating funds for the 2025 school year school year. Thirty years ago I created an emergency fund and we will need to spend it to keep school open through 2025.That is all there is without the Maria plan income. We will be dependent on our supporters to donate to buy some time to get the Maria school enrolled.

CW's future when the (tuition-based ) 'Maria Tuition School' classes are filled, will be self-supporting. Covid upset our plans to open the Maria school in 2020 due to strict lock-down that lasted 2 years. We will be enrolling Maria School's new students hopefully for March 2025 school year.

Chicuchas Wasi School for Girls says
THANK YOU 
Your continued support makes the difference!

CW's future when the (tuition-based ) 'Maria Tuition School' classes are filled, will be self-supporting. Covid upset our plans to open the Maria school in 2020 due to strict lock-down that lasted 2 years. We will be enrolling Maria School's new students hopefully for March 2025 school year.

Links:

• Chicuchas Wasi official website.