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

CONGRATULATIONS to all the Challengers on our first six Charity Challenges of 2011, biking from Guatemala to Honduras, the inaugural Nicaragua Volcano Challenge, Brazil's Chapada Diamantina Challenge , Guatemala's first Caribbean Kayak Challenge, Perú´s Cerani Pass and Ecuador's Volcano Challenge. Nicaragua's second volcano Challenge is set for 3rd-6th November and the third Guatemala Volcano Challenge dates are set for 27th November -2nd December.

Click on the following for our most recent official project reports for Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Perú and Brazil.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Taking responsibility - stoves in Honduras

Since the beginning of February 8 volunteers have built 8 stoves for families of the students. A few weeks ago a stove was being built for the family of two boys, Pablo and Mario. On a friday morning we arrived to the school to find all the materials for 4 stoves.

These materials needed to be split up into four piles so the families receiving stoves could get their respective materials.

What better activity to kick off a Friday morning than to enlist the primary school children to help Marko and Eric split up 360 bricks and 80 cinder blocks!

The kids loved it! Particularly Mario and Pablo who took this on as a major responsibility, given that 25 percent of these blocks would be for their home.

It was great to see Pablo and Mario taking such responsibility for their stove and to see the entire community of children work together to get the job done. With a smile!