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.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Volunteer reunion in London

Regular readers of the blog may have noticed a lack of action for the past couple of weeks, for which I apologise for. It isn't that anything noteworthy hasn't happened in Phoenix, is is just that myself and Doreen headed back to England to see family, friends and of course, ex-volunteers.

John, or Profe Juan, thankfully got tickets to see Spurs versus Burnley, a 5-0 thrashing which was the perfect start to a great Saturday night on the town with a great group of volunteers from the past.

We will be making this an annual event (hopefully the scoreline aswell) in London, as it is so great to meet up with everyone again, swap stories and bring everyone up to date. Apologies for the lack of blogging, I will make up for it I promise!

Oh, and for all you Honduras fans, that is Wilson Palacios!