Project Report
| Mar 9, 2012
Charity Challenge in Guatemala
By Aoife Bulman | Charitable Trust Team
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Kids in Guatemala
In March of 2012, 15 challengers headed off on a three day challenge to raise funds and awareness for our projects in Guatemala. The challenge included hiking to the highest peak, biking and kayaking Lake Atitlán. Not an easy task for our challengers. But they want to make a difference in these children's lives.
Funds raised from this challenge go towards our food and fruit programs in Guatemala, especially important following years of failed crops. Food is invaluable for these school children. Happy tummies equals happy education.
Feb 1, 2012
Amazing support for the GVI Charitable Trust
By Alice Burrow | GVI Charitable trust
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.
This has been by far the most successful period. In six months we have raised nearly as much as we did the whole previous year. This increase in funding has brought a corresponding increase in the impact we have been able to create on our programs around the world.
During this period we have invested in sustainable education across Latin America. This includes support for the elderly in Guatemala and income generation schemes to support education in Honduras and Ecuador. In Mexico we have worked with a community to establish a recycling centre and in Kenya our partners in Mombasa will now see impoverished students complete primary education to earn qualifications for the first time.
These are just a few highlights of an amazing, productive and rewarding six months. Thank you to everyone who has supported us and played a crucial role in these achievements.
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Dec 16, 2011
Nutrition and education cannot be separated
By Ross Deans | GVI Charitable Trust Manager
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Over the years on our projects around the world nutrition remains one of the most important aspects of our projects. We have seen children and their grades develop in direct relation to increased nutrition at school.
In Guatemala many children in Indigenous communities face serious difficulties on a daily basis. Adopting very adult roles at a young age many children will not attend school regularly due to their commitments in the home which may include collecting firewood and working in the fields to help out food on the table.
Food programs in schools increase the chance that children will attend school regularly and with increased nutrition, concentration and attendance levels they will earn better grades resulting in increased future opportunities.
Support for this project has helped us to keep the school meal program running in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala giving these amazing children more opportunities.