Education Peru Project #1768

Education & nutrition for children in Peru

by Fly The Phoenix

Project Report | Jul 16, 2022
All the latest from Fly The Phoenix in Peru

By Dom Williams | Founder and Director

Traditional Dance

With normal classes back up and running after more than two years in Perú we recently had a great visit from fifty students and five teachers from Impington Village College, Cambridge, UK and thanks to their brilliant fundraising through GlobalGiving we were able to start our first sustainable irrigated vegetable garden which will provide food for the children and local families over the coming years. We also started building a new kitchen and storage room which will increase the size of the three classrooms (currently cooking and storage is in the actual classrooms) – it is due to finished this week! Another group were involved with painting projects including educational games on the playground floor and geographical murals as well as essential 1-1 teaching with the students. Thank you very much to all the students’ and teachers’ donors who made this all possible and of course the students and teachers themselves!

For the first time since 2019 we were able to celebrate Mother’s Day and Day of the Child in May with plenty of dance and food and this time we invited the grandparents to watch their grandchildren perform which was great to see. The first Charity Challenge since 2019 was also undertaken with the Inca Trail conquered in late May – the dates are already set for 2023!

For all our donors who live in Ireland, Wales and England we are arranging some individual day fundraising hikes and events in September including Dublin on 17th, Kinsale on 19th, Anglesey on 22nd, Chester on 24^th and The Peak District on 26th. If you happen to be in the area and want to join us please do get in touch by replying to this email or heading to the website link at the bottom of this page. As we strive to regain our momentum and funding post-pandemic, fundraising events play such a key role so if you have any in mind, no matter how small or big, please do let us know and thank you so much.

We already have the dates for our major charity challenges in 2023 including The Lost City challenge in Colombia between 6-13^th May and the Inca Trail in Perú between 8-15^th July. If you are interested in either please do get in touch by replying to this email or following the 2023 Charity Challenges link at the bottom of the page.

Thank you all for your continued brilliant support, without which our work would be impossible. We realise the current cost of living crisis has added to the hardships of the past couple of years so everything you can continue to do to support our work is very much appreciated – thank you!

Cheers

Food for all generations

Preparing the foundations for the kitchen

One-on-one teaching

Educational art

Pan Huerto with irrigation

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Apr 4, 2022
$50 matched by 50% this week for Peru

By Dom Williams | Founder and Director

Great to be back

I hope all is well with you. To give us a huge boost this week (Monday 4^th to Friday 8^th April) GlobalGiving will be 50% matching all individual donations to this page of up to $50 which is a fantastic opportunity for the projects as we aim to recover from the past two years and build towards a better sustainable future. If you can it would be fantastic if you could donate this week and your donation will go even further.

With 2022 now three months old it is already very different to the previous two years with all the students back in the classroom finally. We are aiming to maintain all the classrooms secure for daily teaching with cleaning products available. Looking ahead donations permitting, whilst continuing to cover our daily costs of the projects, we aim to make a concerted effort to implement family sustainable income plans with small enterprises over the coming months. Thanks to your continued support we have managed to keep the projects going through these hard times and once again, with your donations, we hope to be in a position to move forwards with confidence – thank you!

Perú finally got back into the classrooms at the end of March for the first time since December 2019. Student numbers have swelled as more families migrate from the altiplano and jungle to try and find work in Arequipa though end up in the pueblos jovenes on the outskirts of the city in the desert where we work. We will be purchasing personal text and workbooks and doing what we can to bring the children up to date with learning, which could take several weeks.

In the next few months we hope to build school vegetable gardens for the daily food programme and also implement various family sustainable income plans to help with household costs.

All the best for April and thank you in advance for your continued support.

Cheers

Back in class since December 2019

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Dec 27, 2021
Looking ahead to 2022 in Peru

By Dom Williams | Founder and Director

School to restart in March 2022

As 2021 draws to a close we would like to thank first and foremost all our local teachers for continuing to teach the students to the best of their ability with the resources available, whether this was in limited classroom-based environments or heading out to their homes when they could to give out and collect homework and set topics in the students’ textbooks. Thank you also to everyone who has supported the projects this year in what has once again been a very difficult time all round.

Our first priority is obviously to keep the projects going and the students educated. Once this has been achieved we can start implementing more sustainable income plans with the families which will provide them, and the schools, with continued income into the future.

Our work in Perú has been hit the hardest by restrictions put in place due to the pandemic with the school not due to be re-opened until March next year. The teachers have travelled to the community when allowed and we have supplied textbooks for the children to work with from home. Once the school re-opens we plan to help local University students with their studies in exchange for part-time help in the school to bring the children back to the appropriate level per grade. Funds permitting we will then add more full-time local teachers to have one teacher per grade (currently one for two grades). We also plan to start investing in sustainable plans to help with further education.

We will also be supplying sufficient biosecurity products to keep the classrooms and schools as safe as possible each day as well keeping up with our food programmes and planting trees where we can in the desert (!) to reduce the carbon footprint of the daily transport of the projects thanks to the Appeal.

Thank you all once again for your continued support and all the best for 2022.

cheers

Looking forward to in-classroom teaching

Where we work

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