TEACHERS are the BACKBONE to EDUCATE GIRLS in Peru

You have raised $7,816, of the $75,000 needed. YOU DID THIS to allow rural GIRLS to attend school for the first time. Thank you for making a huge difference in the lives and futures of our girls. 

It might not seem that important, but a second sturdy SCHOOL VAN that will last many years is a top prority for 2015. It is urgently needed to handle the transportation of our 110 girls over the rough rural roads, to keep them in school. In addition to delivery to and from school, two school vans will not only lesson the heavy load on the older van causing many breakdowns, but will give the students an opportunity to learn about and visit museums and the cultural ruins of their heritage that they might never know. Quechua speaking girls are illiterate and without Spanish will know little of their own heritage outside of their home. Education will open up their opportunities and futures so dramatically that they will be able to compete for jobs and opportunities otherwise denied to them and to value their Quechua heritage.

The heavy mountain rains make walking long distances impossible for little girls and mother are afraid to send their daughters alone. A School Van is the only safe way in this area to have girls attend school. Please share with friends and family what it will mean to girls denied an education, to have a safe way to arrive and attend school. 

A BIG THANK YOU to all of YOU generous donors on Chime For Change, and friends of Mason McNulty for supporting the CW School need for an additional school van - tough enough to make the many trips over muddy roads full of holes. Fundraising for a school van to transport 110 rural school girls is most difficult, but nevertheless very necessary for any rural school. Safe transportation not only delivers young girls safely to school, they are not kept home for fear of injury or other abuses. Attendance is 98% with the van. Poor families need the extra support of daily hot meals for malnourished daughters, school uniforms and supplies - all provided at CW School, but safe transportation is a top priority on the list as well. Believe me, this is a very important safety measure to ensure that our girls will be delivered safely to and from school, as school is not close to where they live and the girls are very young and vulnerable to be out alone for such a distance. Public transportation does not serve our rural student community. 

                         NO SCHOOL VAN = NO SCHOOL FOR CW GIRLS 

                                         CW could not do this alone.    

                                                     THANK YOU!

   Without YOU there would be no Chicuchas Wasi School for Rural Girls.

Links:

• Official NEW Chicuchas Wasi website