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.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Summer School success in Ecuador

Ecuador has had a great summer school season thanks to the hard work and dedication of the volunteers and staff on the team. On three days of the week, we concentrated on reviewing key areas in maths, language and sciences in the morning and then used the afternoons to give fun music, art, dance and PE classes to the school children.

Attendance was at around 90% across the 3 schools – testament to the great work the volunteers were doing. On the other two days, we delivered innovative English classes to the high school students in each community to help strengthen their knowledge of the foreign language.

And to make a fresh start for the new term – we painted all three schools inside and out, and did some much needed construction to effect repairs and improvements.

Here is a selection of photos showing some of the activities we got up to – thank you to all our summer school volunteers and staff!