Education for 200 children in Honduras

In Honduras the successful graduations from the Phoenix College, including Sindy who walked an hour each way every day to study and who finished the top of her class, capped an excellent year in the projects. Construction continued on the central college as well as our first satellite school in Barbasco. More adults received literacy classes as part of the curriculum and many communities received lectures on health and sustainability from our students who also wowed the crowds on Independence Day with the improved school band!

2019 will hopefully include increased numbers of students in our secondary schools and college in both Copán and Barbasco as well as more help for La Pintada. The year will also include an increased push with family sustainable plans across the communities as we continue to strive for internal funding for the projects over the coming years.

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated to this year’s Appeal, raising funds to go towards the $100,000 we plan to spend during 2019 on local teachers and materials across all our projects. One final push by donating to this page and we can reach our targets so please do dig deep if you can 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 1 teacher for 25-30 children for one year
$1,860 1 teacher for 25-30 children for six months
$930 1 teacher for 25-30 children for three months
$310 1 teacher for 25-30 children for one month

$180 1 child for one year
$90 1 child for six months
$45 1 child for three months
$15 1 child for one month

Thank you to everyone who has signed up to the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu Challenge from 26^th-31^st May. There are now no spots left due to the official limited numbers allowed on the trail each day. Due to demand we will be running a second challenge in tandem, the Salkantay Trek, with both finishing at Machu Picchu on the same day. We have only six places remaining so please do get in touch if you are interested.

The following week we will be taking on the Ecuador Challenge, including volcanoes Fuya Fuya and Imbabura. A great group is forming for that one too so please do get in touch with dom@thephoenixprojects.org if you are interested in either challenge, or indeed both!

Thank you so much to all of you who have helped us continue our work this year with regular donations, charity challenge participation and one-off donations. To coin the old cliché, we couldn´t have done it without you!

Have a great 2019!

Cheers

Links:

• Charity Challenges for 2019

In Honduras our students in the secondary school and college are gearing up for their final exams in December with fifteen potential graduates leaving us with glowing results. We have seen over the years that all our graduates find jobs straight away with local NGOs due to the expansive and varied education they receive with us, including rural sustainability, healthcare and business knowledge. This success proves to the local families that education is indeed necessary, rather than choosing not to educate their children in the past so that they can help in the fields. By having solid proof like this the parents are more likely to send their children to school in the future and we are happy to have them!

As part of the final year of the Phoenix College the students have to teach 5 hours a week of adult literacy in the communities. The majority of the adults cannot read and write so this is a crucial part of the course. The female students even teach their own fathers which is a huge step forward and unthinkable in the recent past. With the current dire situation in Honduras causing thousands to find work elsewhere, basic literacy skills are crucial no matter the age.

Our Appeal this year, in conjunction with Giving Tuesday on 27^th 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.

Norma was among our first graduates from the Phoenix college in Honduras in 2014 and has since been part of the Phoenix team teaching up in Barbasco.

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 27^th 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!