Education & nutrition for 87 children in Ecuador

As we come close to US Mother's Day on May 12, we are focusing on supporting our Moms in Ecuador! This month, across Latin America in our projects we have gone Mom crazy! Ecuador shares its Mother's Day with the US and in Ecuador they have been spending more time focusing on our Moms in the projects. Plan Ironwoman...

Global Giving’s first bonus day of the year starts NOW, 9am EST! Global Giving are matching donations at 30% from right now! There is $50,000 available in matching so if you would like to donate to the project plans below for 2013 please so do now so we can benefit from the extra donation! 2013 is a big year for our...

Hi there This Wednesday, get ready for an exciting way to make your donation BIG. Keep an eye on your emails on Wednesday morning for an announcement on how to make your donation grow! In the last week of February, the Larcacunga community in Ecuador enjoyed a field trip to the four lakes in the area, looking closer at...

School has been continuing as normal in 2013, and currently on a 2 week break after mid-term exams in all our communities. Thanks to our local teachers, including those sponsored by generous donations present and future, the results should be good! This February, The Phoenix Projects and our charity Fly The Phoenix are...

We havn't stopped in our communities in Ecuador, with just two days off over Christmas, the children have been in school in both primary and secondary. Our funded teachers are doing especially well, imparting their knowledge to the little ones. Our secondary school kids are equally doing well, sponsored though further...

In our projects in Ecuador in 2012, both primary and secondary education have been a huge success, especially with Plan Moo, whereby we buy a cow for a family, and the proceeds pay for most of the costs incurred with secondary education. It has been a huge success, and funds-permitting, we plan to purchase a small herd over...

We would like to inform you about an exciting new development with this project in Ecuador. Over the past seven years, we have been promoting the basic human rights of full education, food and employment in communities in Ecuador by supporting schools with one teacher in each and investing in secondary education. This...

The new school year is fully underway and soon to be coming into its second month! The new term has not been without some changes however; a new national schedule for the year has been implemented in Ecuador, with school terms being different lengths for this year. The team are busy adapting and coming to terms with it...

The school year has just come to a close, and even more children will be heading into secondary school for the first time, as well as those children who started previously continuing with their studies. If this was not possible, many would be working in the fields as their parents cannot afford schooling.  It is...

In Ecuador, a recent charity challenge covered the costs of 5 more children being able to go through secondary school, a truly amazing effort and further donations can help yet more children achieve this dream. Many of these children cannot afford to go to school as there children work in fields barely making ebough to...

For the past few years, we have trialled Plan Moo, whereby a child going into secondary school receives a milking-cow, proceeds of the sale of milk covers secondary school costs. It has been a huge success and the purchase of more cows, at around $800 each, can create a herd that can benefit other areas, like food programs...

This week a lighthearted update from Ecuador, project manager Zoe shares some news from the field covering the three communities we work in: ‘At Larcacunga, 1st grade were learning different types of tastes and the senses – so, of course, we tried the “Marmite, te gusta o no te gusta” test! They...

We would like to share the most recent trustee report from the GVI Charitable Trust. This report covers the six month period from July to December 2011. We are delighted to share that this has been by far our most successful period, raising in six months nearly as much as we did the whole of the previous year. This increase...

As we draw to the end off another great year in Otavalo, Ecuador, we can reflect on massive advances achieved in 2011. Initiatives to fund secondary education such as 'Plan Moo' (cows producing milk, cheese and other products) and 'Plan Cuy' (Breeding and selling Guinea Pigs, a popular delicacy in Ecuador) have proven a...

While the concept of attending school during one´s vacation period may seem somewhat repugnant to many students around the world, the opposite proved to be true in Ecuador. For six weeks in July and August, all the kids at Laracunga, Muenela and Hyayarapungo enjoyed themselves at summer school. With the general theme...

In the final week of term children from rural communities Huayrapungo and Muenala planned a school trip. All 30 children from Muenala, alongside parents and volunteers headed out for a day trip to Cielo Verde in the Intag region just outside of Otavalo. An early start and clearly excited children we all head out into banana...

What was your favourite book when you were little? Was it "The Cat in the Hat" or maybe "The Hungry Caterpillar"? Sadly, many children in Ecuador can't answer this question. The availability of books is something most of us take for granted. In Ecuador, books are very expensive and beyond the reach of many of the families...

GVI Ecuador project manager Tracey has come up with a great fundraising initiative for our sustainable community schemes. Donations are used to purchase cows and guinea pig enclosures. The aim is to empower children by giving them an income stream to make sure that they are not excluded from education due to lack of funds....

All three schools in which we work got a new coat of paint inside and out, plus some well needed DIY ahead of the start of the new school year. Thanks and congratulations on a fantastic job go out all the volunteers and staff who worked long hours over a 2 week period to get the job finished. The teachers and children,...

Once again we got to celebrate the graduation of our 7th graders at the 3 schools in which we work in Ecuador. Up at Huayrapungo, Diana and Luisa, the two inaugural beneficiaries of our new High School sustainable initiative, Plan Cuy, enjoyed a quiet day of celebrations with volunteers and the children. Plan Cuy (or...

The first three months of the year has seen huge progress with the children, especially as many teachers are missing school for new training, we are able to continue all education so the children do not miss out. The children in secondary school are still afforind their secondary educations with the proceeds from Plan Moo,...

The Plan Moo scheme we set up last year has seen its first year of results, with most of the children from one of our communities managing to pay their own way in secondary school with the proceeds from selling milk from their cows. In other communities, utensils were handed out to the children making the step up and they...

Greetings. Our schools in Ecuador have begun the new scholastic year well, with new children now heading off to secondary school, and previous kids moving up a grade, which is a great achievment. To start fundraising for next year, I will be embarking on a Charity Challenge this weekend in Guatemala, climbing 4 volcanoes in...

Our ids who we have put through secondary school have finished the educational year with a fine set of results. The Plan Moo scheme, which we are testing in one community, whereby the family receives a cow and the milk and cheese proceeds go towards their children¿'t education, has proven successful, and we plan to role...

As we continue to provide resources for children to move on to secndary school, we are also looking into more plans tomake the communities sustainable in this area, with our cow scheme going strong, further down the line, we are looking into trout farms aswell...a potential income generator for the families. The children...

We have finished our first steps of our new trial project, Plan Moo, whereby we have provided milk producing cows (ie, with young) to members of one community. The idea being, the money made from the sales of the milk goes towards secondary education for years to come. If the pilot proves successful, we will role out Plan...

The average rate of transition into secondary school is less than 10% for indigenous children in Ecuador. In our communities we are now looking at an 80% transition rate into secondary school for next year! Almost 20 children will be starting secondary school education in September, adding to the seven children who started...