By Dom Williams | Founder and Director
I hope all is well with you. As we enter the final month of a very successful year here in Latin America we are pleased to launch the 2025 Phoenix Appeal today to coincide with GlobalGiving’s part-matching campaign which is now live. This year’s Appeal aims to raise funds for our local teachers' salaries, secondary school and college scholarships, classroom materials and food programmes in Guatemala, Ecuador and Perú in 2026.
From now (2nd December) until 1200 EST, 1700 UK tomorrow, 3rd December (0400 Eastern Australia on 4th December) all individual donations up to US$2,500 (£1,900) will be enhanced with a proportional share of a half million dollar pot. Last year this proportional share equated to 25% extra on donations so it is an excellent opportunity for the projects.
Donations to last year’s Appeal contributed to almost a third of the $50,000/£35,000 day-to-day spending on all our projects so far this year helping us provide access to education for over five hundred children in Latin America, including Peru.
With your generous donation to this year’s Appeal, we aim to increase the number of students to six hundred in 2026 across all our projects, including 50 in Peru. You can donate directly to this page and thank you so much in advance.
In Peru we continued to fund one local teacher and daily fruit as well as celebrating cultural events. At the start of the new school year we handed out the personalised text and work books to the forty students in all grades for the whole year. These include maths and literacy. The school has one teacher for every two grades, one of whom is the head teacher who often has meetings with parents or the authorities, leaving their two classes unattended. Having personal text and work books allows the children to continue their work when they don’t have a teacher.
Large parts of the government food programme were cancelled in July so we provided the shortfall for the rest of the year. With the vegetables from the garden the children weren’t affected as we know that the food they receive in the school is often their only meal of the day.
The annual Impington International College trip from Cambridge, UK, was a great success in October with so much achieved in the few days they were up at the school including resurfacing and extending the playground, one-on-one teaching in maths, English, art and language, a mural depicting the three geographical regions of the country and theatre when a group of students spent time designing and making costumes for the children to perform a short history of Peru, including the Incas, the Spanish colonisation and finally Independence.
Our 19th Anniversary working in Perú was celebrated in November with the big 20th Anniversary being celebrated next July with the Colca Canyon Charity Challenge and a big party in the school! More information about the challenge and getting involved can be found following the link below.
Thank you so much for anything you can donate today to this page to take advantage of the part-matching. Your donation will help make a tangible difference for hundreds of families in 2026 and thank you so much in advance.
Have a great December.
Cheers
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