Education & nutrition for children in Peru

We celebrated Mother’s Day and the Maldonado Anniversary in May, with plenty of traditional dancing, gifts and food which was a fantastic event for the community at large. On the educational side, the children are coming along well under the excellent guidance of Phoenix teacher Ediluz.

Thanks to your donations we have managed to stock the school once again with materials and textbooks for each child which helps independent learning as well as the use of multiple tools to learn, including arts and crafts.

Plans are afoot to add more local teachers from 2019 by providing recently graduated teachers the chance to gain experience in the school, whilst aiming to reduce the teacher/class ratio, which currently is one teacher for two classes, so they will be able to secure long-term jobs in the future. Without the education that you, our donors provide each year, this wouldn’t be possible and we thank you all.

Our annual Seven Continent Charity Challenge #4 which raises funds for all our projects across Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and Perú was a huge success in May, biking, kayaking, hiking and “volcanoing” our way to Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, covering over 75kms. There is still time to support the cause by donating to this page and thank you!

A date for your diary for 2019: The Seven Continent Charity Challenge #5 will be the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu in Perú from 27-31^st May – please contact us if you are interested on dom@thephoenixprojects.org . There are limited spaces so please let us know as soon as you can!

Have a fantastic June and we’ll be in touch in August with another update! Cheers