Sustainable Income Plans in Latin America

I hope all is well. 

We are launching the 2023 Appeal today (Monday 18th September) and GlobalGiving will be matching all individual donations of up to £40/$50 by 50% between now and Friday 22^nd September which is a fantastic opportunity for the projects. All money raised with this year’s Appeal will be put towards our local teachers’ salaries, scholarships, classroom materials, daily fruit and sustainable plans.

Last year's Appeal, launched in September 2022, raised an incredible £21,000/$26,000 towards the £85,000/$106,000 we have spent on The Phoenix Projects in Latin America over the past twelve months.

As you can see clearly, we were able to accomplish one quarter of our work in Latin America over the past year thanks to your generous support to the Appeal. If we can get close to that figure once again for this year's Appeal we will be able to achieve so much more in 2024 so if you can donate this week please follow this link.

The children in Perú are getting more involved in the school vegetable garden and receive classes in irrigation types, planting, the growing process and of course harvest (which is obviously the most popular part!). With the extended Plan Huerto we have been able to provide more nutritious food for the children each day with extra being shared with the local families. 

In Ecuador we are continuing to increase the herd in Plan Moo (cows) and hope to purchase a further eight cows this month bringing us a quarter of the way to our goal. In this current Plan Moo campaign we hope to sustainably cover the costs of our local teachers' salaries from 2025 onwards.

Plans are afoot to expand the Plan Costura in Guatemala to generate income for our further education students. The idea would be to purchase more sewing machines and give them classes so they can make their own textiles to seel which will not only help them cover education costs currently not covered by our scholarships though will also help out with family costs at home - in this current cost of living crisis every little bit helps. 

Have a great rest of September and anything you can donate this week so we can take advantage of the matching and get this year’s Appeal off to a great start would be fantastic and thank you so much in advance.

Cheers

I hope all is well with you. We have had a fantastic few months on the projects in Latin America including two Charity Challenges to raise much needed funds for the schools. We are already planning three challenges for 2024 which can be seen by following the link at the bottom of this newsletter.

The annual community work trip in Perú with Impington International College, Cambridge, UK was undertaken with twenty-seven students fundraising and working in the school. One of the major projects was to double the size of the school vegetable garden and install drip-irrigation. The school’s first orchard was planted with drip-irrigation as well. In a few years the children should be enjoying avocados, apples and peaches. In the photo below you can see the installation of the drip-irrigation system for the extended Plan Huerta.

Work has begun preparing the ground for a vegetable garden in a local school in one of the communities where our scholarship students live in Guatemala. The harvests will go towards daily meals in the school and any extra shared amongst the families, especially the elderly.

Over the summer we plan to increase our Plan Moo herd which will help cover the local teachers’ salaries in the future as well as providing much needed income for the local families to help cover secondary school and college education. 

All the best from the projects and we’ll update you again in a couple of months.

Cheers

Links:

• Charity Challenges 2024