By Dom Williams | Founder and Director
The college in Honduras continues to educate many teenagers from seven communities. More emphasis is put on agricultural techniques as part of the course and this knowledge is then expended to many communities in the surrounding area so families can become more self-sustainable in these troubled times.
Thousands of people try to migrate to the US and other countries from Honduras each month and the communities where we work are no different due to lack of employment opportunities and agriculture best with serious problems due to climate change. Education can solve one of these problems and the agricultural techniques taught in the college can help solve the other. Water retention and better use is key to this hence our emphasis on drip-irrigation and polytunnels.
This year The Phoenix Projects are celebrating twenty years in Latin America and thanks to you around five thousand children, teenagers and adults have been able to receive a quality education during this time in Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Perú and previously in Brazil, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
We have built schools, extra classrooms, kitchens and energy efficient stoves, provided employment for dozens of local people, planted hundreds of thousands of trees, distributed educational materials, daily meals and hundreds of tonnes of fruit and implemented sustainable income plans on an average annual budget of around $100,000/£85,000.
Additionally, over three hundred families have benefitted from the implementation of sustainable income plans including cows, chickens, weaving, vegetables and small businesses.
To celebrate our 20th Anniversary we are launching this year’s Appeal today and all donations up to $50/£40 through this page will be matched at 50% by GlobalGiving between 12th September - today - until Friday 16th September. Larger donations can of course be made although the matching will only apply to the first $50/£40 and only once per individual donor.
We still have so much more we want to do over the coming years with the experience we have gained, including replicating the projects in other communities with sustainable plans covering running costs from the start.
Your continued support in helping to fund local teachers’ salaries and scholarships, school materials, food and sustainable income plans is as important now as it has been in the last twenty years.
We realise that times are uncertain though anything you can donate to the Appeal through this page this week to take advantage of the 50% matching will help us start the next twenty years in the best possible way!
Thank you so much in advance.
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