Education & nutrition for 150 children in Peru

As we come close to US Mother's Day on May 12, we are focusing on supporting our Moms in Peru! In Perú this month we have had an exciting addition to our nutritional program and provided by the Government!  The Government irregularly send food to our project in Perú, if there isn't enough food then we...

This Wednesday, get ready for an exciting way to make your donation BIG. Keep an eye on your emails on Tuesday afternoon for an announcement on how to make your donation can grow! In Peru, the communities and surrounding area of our schools have been severely affected by the unseasonal heavy rains. However,...

With the new school year rapidly approaching in our schools in Perú, we are continuing with our summer school program, with the children going over the basics of mathematics and language, readying themselves for the new term starting in March. This February, The Phoenix Projects and our charity Fly The Phoenix are...

2013 is upon us, quicker I think than we all imagined, although not quick enough for the kids, eager for the new term to start in March. Though we havn't stopped, we have vacation classes for those kids who need that little bit extra, to prepare them for the new school year. This year, your very kind donations will be going...

2012 has been a good year for our projects in Perú, despite the numerous teacher strikes and disruptions to the children's education, though we got there in the end, with final exams currently being finished off. 2013 brings us to ever-more expansion in our education goals for the communities, with a lot of work to...

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

For the past three months the children's education has been affected by country-wide teacher strikes, though we have still managed to get in and carry on teaching, despite this hindrance! We continue with the food program and the children receive their utensils that they need for enhanced learning. Our local teachers we...

Recently, we were lucky enough to have 7 members of the GVI team in Perú who took to conquer the Atacama Desert. We trekked 35 kilometers in two days along a beautiful Peruvian coast, raising money for the GVI Charitable Trust. The money raised through this challenge will continue providing the children of...

This year saw the introduction of 'Plan Immersion', whereby we introduced the secondary school children who have received scholarships and materials, to different types of work they can achieve in Arequipa. At this point in time life in the Pueblos Jovenes is their future. These types of jobs included: administration work,...

Throughout the majority of schools in South America, fostering creativity in students is either not present in, or not a priority of the curriculum.  If you walk into a normal classroom, you will see students doing a lot of copying off of the blackboard.  When these same students are asked to write a story about a...

Later on this March, a group of challengers will be undertaking a 2 day charity challenge to raise funds for our projects on the outskirts of Arequipa, Peru.  Unusual heavy rains have devastated many families in the area. The homes of the children in which we work. The children's education is paramount. We offer them a...

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...

At the end of 2011 we celebrated the anniversaries of our schools in the Phoenix project in Peru in both communities Maldonado and Triunfo. We have been working in the schools since 2006.  It's such a treat to be able to see the parents, teachers, volunteers, and kids all come together in celebration of the great work...

Thanks to funds raised for this project, we are able to keep traditions alive in our communities, by paying for traditional dance costumes and transport so the children can partake in dance competitions, growing in self-esteem and keep tradition strong. For the past month selected kids have been spending every spare moment...

Here in Peru, the Day of the Student fell on Friday September 23. To celebrate we took the children from the communities we work in, Maldonado and Triunfo, on a field trip to Quiscos, a park with a natural hot spring about 40 minutes away. The kids, volunteers, and profesoras were in heaven! It was amazing to be able to...

Our schools at Truinfo and Maldonado in Peru are definitely feeling Spring Fever. Right when the weather began to get even warmer, the teachers began their decorating frenzy and have transformed the schools. Flowers, birds, and bright colours hang all around the classroom, even from the ceilings! The kids have been loving...

This month we celebrated the 14th anniversary of the Victor Maldonado school.  All of the children got dressed up in traditional outfits and performed dances that they had learned specially with the local dance teacher. After weeks of practicing they finally got to show off what they had learned. The kids loved it...

Katy is a happy and kind 14-year-old girl who attends one of our schools here in Arequipa, Peru. Katy has a learning disability and a facial disfigurement. She also has a huge smile and a cheerful disposition. Everyday Katy is able to work 1-1 with a volunteer. Katy is currently on a 1st grade level and while she may be...

Talks are underway for starting our own secondary school whereby funds raised on this page will go towards paying for teachers to give secondary education to the children. We have tried this on our project in Honduras and seen great results so we are very keen to expand the initiative across the projects. We currently...

Support on the project is continuing as ever and are seeing great progress with the children. We did have 6 kids who were falling behind and had to be removed from the class, thanks to extra support we have been able to bring them up to speed so that they can continue at the level they should be at. The Children face...

To spread our knowledge and experience in education in the desert, we have expanded into two new communities around Arequipa, where the schools have limited funds, teachers and utensils. By increasing teachers numbers and bringing in food programs, the children are now receiving better education and a full meal each day.

As we finish 2009, yet more parents have decided that once primary school is over, their children should continue to secondary school, so with our help with utensils and other costs, this dream will become reality in 2010. Many thanks for everyone's support over the years...finally, we are making headway in the desert...

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...

I have recently just returned from Peru and had many discussions about how to better our secondary school system. At the moment, we supply our secondary school students with the supplies they need for further education. I plan, over the next 2 years, to implement the plan we have trialled in Honduras, where we pay for...