TEACHERS are the BACKBONE to EDUCATE GIRLS in Peru

CW girls, Peru staff, administration and Calif support team have not skipped a beat over the difficult last two years of Covid and CW home-school. We have received and continue to receive many blessings. We are ready now to return to the classroom.                                     Thank you all!      

All of Latin America just celebrated a bittersweet national holiday, 'Day of the Dead,' where families get together around the graves to beautify the site, sing favorite songs together, recite poetry, share special food and tell stories together of their loved ones who have passed on. So many lives have been taken by Covid that the entire country seemed to fill the cemeteries together to honor the lives they lived. 

Our families are accustomed to the many hardships that come for the people in a developing country and balance them with moments of joy, music and dancing in colorful costumes. A modest Holloween last week provided some laughter as our CW students created home made costumes with their siblings and showed them off to the neighbor children. Photos were sent to their teachers and close friends and laughter was shared. They are still required to stay home as vaccines slowly come to the Peruvian Andes. We are headed for the home stretch to close out the 2021 home-school year and make ready to return to the classroom next March 2022 finally and for real. The ministry of education came to the school to inspect all of our classrooms to be sure we are ready by their standards around curriculum and records. We are enthusiastically ready. 

Please donate - the end of CoVid in Peru is not here yet - vaccines are still arriving.

   https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/educate-110-poor-girls-in-cusco-for-economic-survival/

The vaccines have been arriving to Peru in batches that are given out immediately to all those lined up to receive them until gone - the remainder in line must wait for the next shipment. 

We are still delivering emergency food baskets to our 97 families who still depend on it. More jobs will become available as tourism opens up to international travelers before the holidays and help Peruvian quality of life rise up again. 

The fundraiser tuition school Maria is ready to open when we get the green light to begin registering new students. March 2022 will be the beginning of recovery for everyone in Peru - especially schools.

A few snapshots for you below: CW girls in classrooms and Cafeteria at the school; emergency food delivery; our beautiful CW school created for poor Indigenous Girls (tuition free), and the new (tuition based) Maria school. We are ready to return to our school and to finally enroll new students into our (fundraiser) Maria school to ensure longevity of CW for generations to come.

                          We have survived and even thrived!
                                          THANK YOU 
                        Your support has made the difference!
 

CW's future when 'Maria Tuition School' classes are filled, will be self-supporting. CoVid upset our plans to open Maria school in 2020, but we are grateful that our CW large extended family is well. We plan to begin enrolling new students in March 2022 when the school year begins again.

NOTE: Cusco IS vaccinating now. Children are expected to return to school slowly for the next school year that begins March 2022. We are all super excited. 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 at the university today. 

            PLEASE DONATE a little extra TO HELP during the Pandemic       

 https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/educate-110-poor-girls-in-cusco-for-economic-survival/

                                    THANK YOU

                            Read the CW STORY
                  "JUMP ON THE LOVE TRAIN"
                 a fundraiser to EDUCATE GIRLS
                    http://www.chicuchaswasi.org/BOOK
             100% of the proceeds go to the school
                                 Thank you

Links:

• Official Chicuchas Wasi website

It seems that even during a Pandemic wonders never end for CW Girls.                             

Ruth's nephew Jorge is an MD in Lima and when word got out to his colleagues that he wanted to help the CW girls learn and they needed a few tools - 8 donated tablets came from his colleagues. These first 8 tablets were awarded to our highest achievers - and then this happened:

CW girls study hard, their noses in their assignment notebooks most of the time. After seeing the awards given to the 8 high achieving girls, they too want one.  It seems that the donors of the first 8 notebooks told their friends in the medical community and more donated notebooks have arrived - 32 more notebooks - a total of 40 notebooks to date. WOW! All the girls are fully energized now to study more and win their own notebook. They dream now of winning a notebook to start off the new school 2022 year in the classroom. 

CW is dramatically changing the lives of poor indigenous girls in Cusco, Peru every day...This story was written by a CW student:                                  

                                   An unforgettable gift

Once upon a time there was a girl named Emmeline, she enrolled in a very beautiful school where there were very understandable teachers. Emmeline dedicated herself to work to study. She always liked to win and be the best and number 1. She tried very hard, until one unexpected day they said that an illness arrived, so everyone had to stay in their homes and do school by video call. Emmeline's school looked like a desert and so far, no one can see one another at school. Emmeline was not adapting, until she set herself a challenge that was to be the best. Emmeline did not stop from doing her best. One day the teacher of Emmeline said that the girls who were going to strive more in their studies were going to be rewarded. Emmeline studied very hard, but the tablet that was the prize was won by her classmate Lucero. Emmeline resigned herself but continued to work hard at her schoolwork. But then the teacher said that there were 3 more tablets, and they were going to be given to 3 girls. Emmeline worked very hard until she went for a walk to Calca and there was a get together with her teacher Pamela. There they announced who won the tablets but none of the names was Emmeline. Emmeline was already resigning herself until the cell phone rang. It was her teacher Pamela and she told Emmeline's mom that Emmeline won another tablet. The mother went to tell Emmeline. When Emmeline received the news she was very happy and grateful to Professor Ruth, Professor Gloria and Professor Pamela for all the education they gave her. She also felt grateful to the gentlemen who donated the tablets and for choosing her as one of the winners.

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And then this happened: The CW school bus was put back to work but not shuffling CW girls to and from school yet. Gulf4Good.org just gave CW a $7900 grant to resume the EMERGENCY FOOD program for our families, still unable to get much work due to still raging Covid Variant in Peru and no vaccines to vaccinate its people. In 2020 Gulf4Good also funded our emergency food program for all of 2020 until the funds ran out. You probably know this, but our teachers have become social workers since joining CW School for Girls and loving the success we are all experiencing.

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           Please donate whatever you can -
        the end of CoVid in Peru is not over.

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/educate-110-poor-girls-in-cusco-for-economic-survival/

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                               To our CW FRIENDS

                                    THANK YOU

                  Your support has made the difference

CW's future when 'Maria Tuition School' classes are filled, will be self-supporting. CoVid has upset our plans to open Maria school, but we are grateful that most in our CW large extended family are well. We plan to begin enrolling students March 2022 when school begins again.

NOTE: Cusco is still not vaccinating many--more vaccines are needed. Children are expected to return to school for the next school year that begins March 2022. We are all super excited. Thank you all for hanging in there with us. We have a way to go yet and the impact of our work is self evident in the success of our girls...some at the university today. 

Read the CW STORY
"JUMP ON THE LOVE TRAIN"
a fundraiser to EDUCATE GIRLS
WWW.chicuchaswasi.org/book/
100% of the proceeds go to the school
Thank you

Links:

• Official Chicuchas Wasi Website