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School Meals at Lake Atitlán, Guatemala

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Providing a daily balanced diet for 200 children in the Peña Blanca community elementary school. Often, this is the children's only meal of the day. project reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Many children in the community do not have a balanced diet and recent studies show that Guatemala is on a par with Haiti as the the country with the worst child malnutrition in Latin America. This program aids the development of the children: • improves child health • improves concentration level • improves school attendance • improves education • improves the potential for the child

Activities

Fruit is provided in the morning, which includes pineapples, bananas, watermelons, cantaloupe, mangoes and oranges; lunch is then provided, including fresh produce, noodles, rice, beans and lentils. To benefit, the children must attend school.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $5,220
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $7,660
Total Funding Goal: $12,880

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This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

An educated child can potentially increase the family income in the community. To become educated, the child must be reasonably healthy and attend school, hence the introduction of the food program.

Project Message

When I first spent time with the kids, most of the kids had a heart-wrenching cough and noses runny with green and yellow goop. The meals are helping and the kids are in school. We need to continue
- Joy Peterson, Whole Planet Foundation

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Andy Woods-Ballard
Director of Operations
1st Floor
3 High Street
St Albans, Herts AL3 4ED
United Kingdom
00 44 870 608 8898
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Project Sponsor

Global Vision International Charitable Trust--Sponsor

Organization

Global Vision International Charitable Trust
GVI-Charitable Trust 1st Floor 3 High Street
St Albans, Herts. AL3 4ED
United Kingdom
44 (0) 870 608 8898
http://www.gvi.org.uk/

Learn more about Global Vision International Charitable Trust and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in GuatemalaGuatemala and can also be found under HealthHealth.

For more information about Guatemala, read the Human Development Report on Guatemala or the Wikipedia entry for Guatemala.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 28, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 4, 2008

Latest Update from the Field

Full stomachs in 2009 and loking forward to 2010

By Dom Williams - Director, December 28, 2009 10:55 AM

As we come to the end of 2009 we can lok back on a year where almost 200 children received daily food and fruit, thanks to the kind donors from Global Giving. Next year, the community leaders tell me there are yet many kids to come to the school, so we definately have a tough though fruitful year ahead. Many thanks to all our donors and Happy New Year!
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