Gender Equality Peru Project #13129

Educate 120 Girls in Cusco for Economic Survival

by Chicuchas Wasi

Educate 120 Girls in Cusco for Economic Survival

Project Report | May 6, 2013
YOU raised $23,000 for Chicuchas Wasi School

By Diana Rae Lewis | Project Leader, Board President

Thank you so very much! YOU raised $23,000 toward the Chicuchas Wasi School 2013 annual budget of $131,000. We had a shortfall of approx. $55,000, and thanks to you we are down to approx. $30,000 left to fully fund the school. Great success!! PLUS:

CW placed #1 in number of individual donors =$2000.
CW placed #2 in amount of money raised =$3000.
CW won a total of $5000 in bonus money toward balance shortfall.

We could not do this without you, and we are deeply moved by your generous support.

YOU are provding education to girls who would not go to school otherwise. They will not be illiterate, uneduated, oppressed and abused like their mothers and grandmothers. You are giving them the key out of poverty and changing their lives forever. Thank you for caring, it really matters.

CW students come from impoverished and uneducated families, often with only a single mother earning at best $1 a day to feed and house 4-5 children. CW School provides bright red uniforms, hot nourishing meals, safe transportation, books and supplies and even dental care when possible for all students. We are more than a primary school. We are a special school especially programmed for these girls, from these families, living in stark poverty without hope for more.

Student spotlight

CW girls are serious students who want opportunity

CW girls bond and support each other.

Even the youngest Angel is in the Christmas play

) Student form support friendships around educatio

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Apr 29, 2013
ALERT! Anonymous donor match 100% of donations to $1000

By Diana Rae Lewis | Founder and Project Leader

Apr 19, 2013
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Friends of CW

By Diana Rae Lewis | Founder and Project Leader

CW School patio assembly of students

YOU raised $16,000 toward the Chicuchas Wasi School budget, PLUS the possible $5,000 in bonus money if we hold our #2 and #1 ranks. We began this GG challenge April 1, with a $49,000 budget shortfall to fully fund CW's $131,000 budget for 2013. With your donations and the bonus $$ we lower our shortfall to $28,000. You did this! Every one of our 115 students will benefit from your generosity.

NEW SURPRISE GlobalGiving BONUS DAY--15% Donation Match -- April 24 12:01 am EST (The allocated $3,000 runs out in a few hours.)

http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/educate-a-poor-girl-cusco-for-economic-family-survival/?rf=ggWidget

At CW school for undervalued girls we emphasize empowerment and self-confidence. This past week CW tackled a long held belief by uneducated rural men and women: “women have not voice, nor vote.” Rural women have been taught that they are inferior to men and destined to suffer from hunger, poverty, rape, beatings, and inability to care for their children because they are women. Women believe that they have no power to make decisions to change the gender inequality that keeps them impoverished and silenced.

To provide our students with greater understanding, CW school Director Ruth organized a CW school election to elect a school Mayor. Every class nominated a candidate, and that class helped their candidate prepare for the debate against the other 8 candidates. A moderator was chosen to keep order and monitor the time allocated for candidate to speak. The stage was set like an actual debate setting and props were loaned to CW by the Government org that oversees elections. The debate was presented to all 115 students to listen, learn and to think about so they might make a good choice for school Mayor. Secret ballots were filled out and the Mayor was chosen. Every girl student is finding her voice and how to use it, and our students will know how and why they must vote to bring equality to all indigenous women and girls of Cusco.

We are changing the lives of poor indigenous girls little by little, and YOU are making it possible.

Our students love CW School...really love learning

CW School Election debates for School Mayor

Candidates offer respect and hug after debates.

All 8 candidates are on the stage...Debates are on

Dirctor Ruth Uribe & youngest students: Thank YOU

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Sonoma Sun Newspaper article on CW - March 2013 (PDF)

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