Sustainable Income Plans in Latin America

I hope all is well. It has been a great few months on the projects and to make it even better, GlobalGiving will be matching all individual donations to this page up to $50 by 50% between today, Tuesday 25th March to Friday 28th March. It would be fantastic if you could donate and take advantage of this extra matching and thank you in advance. 

Work continues on the new centre for Plan Costura in one of our communities in Guatemala whilst meetings are held to start a new plan in another community which will provide opportunities for dozens of teenagers and mothers.

The new school year gets back underway this month in Peru and we will be continuing with our local Phoenix teacher as well as providing daily fruit for the children. We will also be buying gas for the school meals which will be enhanced with fresh vegetables from the school garden.  

Classes have resumed for the second half of the school year. Work has begun with the school vegetable garden which will provide continuous food for the daily meals. Not everything can be successfully grown at 3,500m (11,500ft) so they have planted cabbages, carrots and beetroot. It is 100% organic using animal fertilizer.

As part of our 20th Anniversary charity challenge in Ecuador we will be building a Plan Cuy (guinea pigs) sustainable plan which includes a large warm structure. The first harvest of our second large bean Plan Huerto has taken place. Most of the proceeds are currently being reinvested into expanding the programme and replanting the current plans.

Many thanks for all your support for the projects and we’ll be in touch in the next couple of months with a further update.

Cheers