Education for children in Ecuador

I hope all is well. It has been a great few months on the projects and to make it even better, GlobalGiving will be matching all individual donations to this page up to $50 by 50% between today, Tuesday 25th March to Friday 28th March. It would be fantastic if you could donate and take advantage of this extra matching and thank you in advance. 

Classes have resumed for the second half of the school year and work has begun with the school vegetable garden which will provide continuous food for the daily meals. Not everything can be successfully grown at 3,500m (11,500ft) so they have planted cabbages, carrots and beetroot. It is 100% organic using animal fertilizer.

Music is such an important part of the curriculum and one of our local teachers takes all the classes. The students not only learn how to play the instruments, which include wind powered keyboards, they also learn how to read music.

The first harvest of our second large bean Plan Huerto has taken place. Most of the proceeds are currently being reinvested into expanding the programme and replanting the current plans.

We will be celebrating our 20th Anniversary in Ecuador between Saturday 31st May and 7th June with a volcano charity challenge as well as spending a day in the community doing some hands-on work as mentioned above. Each volcano will be undertaken in a day so participants who want to skip any and stay back in Otavalo are able to do so.  

If you worked with us in the past and fancy coming back to reminisce or just want to climb some volcanoes whilst getting involved in a charity challenge whilst helping the projects please do let us know by replying to this newsletter. We will need to confirm numbers by the end of March.  

Many thanks for all your support for the projects and we’ll be in touch in the next couple of months with a further update.

Cheers