By Dom Williams | Founder and Director
I hope all is well with you. It has been a great few months on the projects thanks to your continued support for which we are extremely grateful.
Large parts of the government school food programme nationwide have been cancelled until further notice so we will be providing the shortfall over the coming months. We will continue to provide the gas for the cooking and daily fruit as always. With the vegetables from the garden (especially the bumper potato harvest earlier - see below) the children shouldn’t be affected as we know that the food they receive in the school is often their only meal of the day.
To celebrate environment month the children have been learning about the current human threats to the planet. This involved walking around the community with placards and telling neighbours to pick up and recycle their rubbish. They then took part in a mass litter-clearing around the school which also included putting up signs telling the local drunks to take their glass bottles with them and not leave them broken by the school.
The harvest was undertaken of the potatoes which were planted at the end of the school year last December in the school vegetable garden. It was a bumper crop and will help bolster the daily food programme over the coming weeks and months. New vegetables will now be planted which are faster growing to add more to the meals during this school year.
We are looking forward to the annual Impington International College trip from the UK in October and thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far to the various individual fundraising pages of the students who are taking part. It really does help us achieve so much on the ground as you can see - thank you!
We will be celebrating 20 years working in Peru next year with the Colca Canyon Charity Challenge in June or July 2026 (we have two dates in case people can’t make one though can make the other!). For more information please follow the link below and if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch, either by replying to this newsletter or emailing us on info@thephoenixprojects.org
Once again, thank you so much for your continued support to help us make all this happen and we’ll update you once again in the next couple of months.
Cheers
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