Education & food for 200 children in Nicaragua

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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 La Thompson 38 children have joined us this year in pre-school, over three levels in the school. We have had more children arrive into...

Classes start on 11th February, with our pre-school and primary levels receiving education from our 7 dedicated local teachers, thanks to donations present and future. Over 200 children now benefit from our programs which were started almost 5 years ago.  This February, The Phoenix Projects and our charity Fly The...

February 14th 2013 is upon us, quicker I think than we all imagined - the day the kids return to school for kinder, primary and secondary with us on The Phoenix Projects, and they can't wait. The classrooms are being prepared, planning sessions are being undertaken to make 2013 the best year so far for our education...

2012 has been an excellent year in Nicaragua, 2013 is going to be even better, thanks to all our donors past, present and future! This year, looking at the final grades, all the children successfully moved on to the next grade (bar a couple), with maths being strong. Our secondary school children, who we give scholarships...

We would like to inform you about an exciting new development with this project in Nicaragua. Over the past five years, we have been promoting the basic human rights of full education, food and employment in communities in Nicaragua by building schools and hiring local teachers, whilst also investing in secondary education....

The legalisation of our two primary schools is going well and paperwork is still with the relevant authorities. Hopefully, this will be completed soon and the doors will be open to our very own schools in Nicaragua in 2013. With our original aims being to add to our five local teachers, we are happy to report we now employ...

The legalisation process in Nicaragua for our primary schools is picking up a head of steam which is of course brilliant. Added to the legalisation of our pre-school, the paperwork is being put together and the lawyers meetings are in full swing. We hope to add to our five local teachers in the future which will provide...

Our Phoenix project in Nicaragua continues to grow at a fast pace, and we have been able to take on more local teachers at approximately $200 a month, thanks to donations. Whilst providing the children with local teachers it helps them more than ever to gain the education vital for their futures and that they too can go on...

This March the team in Estelí will be heading out on a Charity Challenge to raise awareness and funds for our two schools in the small communities of La Thompson and Chirizan, outside Estelí. These two communities is where we built schools, for children without access to a formal education could come...

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...

The New Year is off to a busy start on our project in Nicaragua. In addition to our regular activities in the two schools in two communities which have been established by this project our evening English classes have been very well received. Our Nicaragua base manager shares this report from the field: ‘As we start...

An historic week here on the Phoenix Nicaragua Project, as La Thompson celebrated it's 3rd Pre-school graduation and Chriza had it's 1st! That's 30 kids in total, a huge achievement and a great acknowledgment of all the hard work that the volunteers and local staff have been putting in over the years. The children came...

The Phoenix project in Nicaragua set a goal in late 2010 to support secondary education in the communities in which we work, La Thompson and Chiriza. This goal has become a realization as we recently handed out six secondary scholarships; to two students in La Thompson and four students in Chiriza. The scholarships...

On September 30th 2011 the sports program in Nicaragua was officially launched as 17 girls from our school in the community of Chiriza were transported to the football pitch in the community of Chiriza, where our other school is located. 12 girls were eagerly awaiting the arrival of the opposing team and soon after the...

July 2011 marks the one year anniversary of our project in the community of Chiriza, one of the poorest in Nicaragua. Donations to the GVI Charitable Trust have helped us achieve so much including construction of the school, two latrines, three indoor classrooms, outdoor covered classrooms, concrete floors and a kitchen...

Thanks to donations to this project and money raised through the inaugural Phoenix Nicaragua Volcano challenge held in May 2011 We have recently implemented an addition to our daily food schemes in La Thompson and Chiriza, Nicaragua. Each Friday the children are now receiving chicken as a supplement to the fruit, rice and...

With much of the infrastructure and construction attention being placed on our new project in Chiriza, Karla, a local staff member of GVI, suggested we concentrate on repairing portions of the school and school grounds in the community of La Thompson. Because of the financial support from past volunteers and donors who have...

Yes! We said walls in Chiriza! Construction has started in our community of Chiriza and the first phase has been completed. Because of the donations that have been made over the last few months we have been able to start putting up the foundational brick walls in our school! We have been working in an open school with only...

The sun has made an unexpected entrance this week in Nicaragua and has been welcomed with open arms, especially among the member of our local communities, Chiriza and La Thompson. Esteli and the outlying areas in Nicaragua were hit especially hard by the after effects of Hurricane Mateo off the Caribbean Coast. In La...

A big step taken at our newest school in Chiriza. Our local builder, Don Pedro and his sons recently built the kitchen around the stove built earlier this year. We will now be able to serve the children who attend our school rice and beans on a daily basis. This may sound insignificant but it is a vital aspect of the...

We have now been working for two months in our new community of Chiriza. Attendance so far varies depending on the weather and if children need to work or take care of their siblings while their parent(s) are away from the home. On average, we are seeing 80-120 children each day at the school which is very impressive. ...