By Dom Williams | Founder and Director
I hope all is well. It has been a great few months on the projects.
The first harvest of our major bean crop (Plan Huerto) was undertaken in Ecuador with an excellent yield from the 4 acre (1.5 hectare) piece of land. This will economically help several members of the community of Azabi as well as sustainably cover the costs of Plan Moo management.
Azabí is a forgotten tiny hamlet of about thirty families in the cloud forest which is only reachable by dirt track. We started work there by delivering essential food supplies for the elderly and disabled members of the community then starting this new large-scale sustainable plan.
More cows have been purchased in Plan Moo and several calves have been born to add to the herd!
As part of the scholarship programme in Guatemala the students get involved in litter clearing days around the community of San Pedro and the shore of the lake. They have undertaken several this year and this time they filled dozens of bags of rubbish which is then sent to the Municipal landfill site.
Our scholarship students were once again involved in our reforestation programme to make the most of the rainy season. Over the past twenty years we have planted hundreds of thousands of trees to offset all of The Phoenix Projects’ carbon footprint. Our scholarship students are leading the way by showing awareness of the need to reforest, not deforest, for a better future.
We will be increasing our sustainable sewing business for single mothers this year and 2025 to include more further educations students and help to pay for part of the current scholarships for years to come.
Twenty-eight students and three teachers were involved in this year’s Impington International College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, trip to Peru. The final terrace of the vegetable garden was cleared of rocks and levelled out. Drip-irrigation was installed and vegetable seedlings were planted, including onion, beetroot, lettuce and cabbage.
We used part of the funds raised to build an oven in the school. This will be used primarily for baking bread and for larger-scale school meals and celebrations.
Thank you all as ever for your generous donations to the projects, without which none of the above would have been achieved and would not be possible in the future.
Have a great September
cheers
By Dom Williams | Founder and Director
By Dom Williams | Founder and Director
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