By Dom Williams | Founder and Director
In Perú, our twelve month anniversary of working in Maldonado was celebrated recently with dance, traditional dress and food. Incredible how the time flies! With school coming to a close for the school year in December, once the exams are out of the way we plan to host our annual trip to the beach. As our children spend all year living in the desert with very little access to water the annual trip is a great escape for them, many of whom haven’t seen the sea before, let alone a body of water that big! It will be a fantastic day!
Our Appeal this year, in conjunction with Giving Tuesday on 27th November, aims to raise funds towards our local teachers’ salaries and materials for 2019. On average each teacher will educate between 25-30 children per class and will often teach more than one class so the more teachers we can bring on board for 2019, the more children we can give a vital education to whether this is primary, secondary or college.
Our local Phoenix teachers are the backbone of the projects. Their daily dedication to hundreds of indigenous children in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and Perú cannot be commended enough. They are the future of the projects as well as their communities and we must guarantee this future with funding, both through donations in the short term and through sustainable income plans over the medium to long term.
Ediluz has been with us since the start in Perú, where we have just celebrated twelve years.
Over the next two months we hope to raise a large proportion of the $100,000 we plan to spend during 2019 on local teachers and materials so please do dig deep this Giving Tuesday on 27th November if you can and donate to this page or even crowd fund with friends, family and co-workers in your office or school and aim for one teacher’s salary for the whole year!
Examples:
$3,725 can cover 1 teacher for 25-30 children for one year
$1,860 can cover1 teacher for 25-30 children for six months
$930 can cover 1 teacher for 25-30 children for three months
$310 can cover 1 teacher for 25-30 children for one month
$180 can cover 1 child for one year
$90 can cover 1 child for six months
$45 can cover 1 child for three months
$15 can cover 1 child for one month
On behalf of all the communities where we work, thank you so much in advance for anything you, friends and family can donate for the communities and their future!
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