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.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Graduations in Honduras

We recently celebrated the graduation for the 6th graders in both the communities of Barbasco and San Rafael, a great achievement for these kids making it through the 6 years of Primary School - 20% of students in Honduras don't make it this far.

3 years ago GVI Phoenix started it's very own Colegio, completely free and based in San Rafael (this represents secondary education from grades 7 to 9, normally unaffordable to nearly all young adults in rural communities ).

After 3 years of hardwork, our very first students, aged between 14 and 25 received their diplomas. It was an amazing night for all, and words of hope for the future were shared by all, and the pride was evident in the faces of the students, their families, teachers and of course, everyone there from GVI Phoenix.