GVI Phoenix Project

Facts and figures

On an annual basis we aim to provide:
First time education or educational reinforcement to almost 2000 children in primary school
Secondary education to over 200 children and adults
Employment to over 75 local people; more-so indirectly
100 energy saving wood-burning stoves and 15,000 trees planted
Around 100,000 teaching hours
Over 500,000 pieces of fruit
1,000’s of pens, pencils, pencil sharpeners, colouring pencils, work-books and erasers
Over 300,000 whole or subsidized meals
Daily education in 16 communities across Latin America
Direct benefits to over 500 families

Monday, June 9, 2008

A new road and English becomes part of the curriculum in Honduras

So on Wednesday it was decided to bulldoze a track right along the back of people’s houses and right through the land at the back of the school.

Obviously, the community wasn't overly impressed with this, seeing parts of their land being destroyed and eaten up in one big yellow blur.

Faced with the decision to either destroy the top fence of the vegetable garden or take out a big mango tree, Caroline decided the tree was more important as the fence can be rebuilt.

This year the Government has decided that they want all Primary School children to be learning English so we are waiting for all the teaching materials and text books to be distributed.

Te get a head start, we have started doing one English class a week with each grade from 11:45 until 12:30 pm so that the children do not miss out on other lesson time, as their Maths and Spanish obviously take priority.

This week, new volunteer Connie Dao has started working with Gita in first grade and they will be teaching basic English vocabulary to them once or twice a week. Grades 2 to 6 will receive one class a week taught by Caroline.