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

Sunday, February 22, 2009

GVI Phoenix welcomes new local staff member in Nicaragua

This week GVI Phoenix welcomed a new member to their staff. Karla Patricia Marón is a community member in La Thompson, the Nicaraguan community where GVI has been working the past month and a half, and was the one who brought the community to GVI´s attention.

She has been a great help to us and the other the people in La Thompson, and we are all looking forward to working with her and other members of the community in the future.

Although GVI has only been in the La Thompson since mid January of this year we have already seen some great results. We are seeing new faces each week, are continuing with the construction of the school, have implemented a fruit program, and completed 7 stoves for the families.

Unfortunately some of the children in the community are unable to attend school because they are needed to look after younger siblings or work in the tobacco fields.

However slowly but steadily, GVI is seeing that families are realizing how important a basic education for their children is, and we hope to continue to see more faces appearing at the school as we continue our work in La Thompson.