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, June 6, 2011

Day of the Inicial in Perú

This week we celebrated the day of the inicial on the Phoenix Teaching Project Peru. Eighty years ago the first inicial opened his doors in Peru and every year they celebrate this anniversary with many festivities. On Wednesday we held a birthday party, for the inicials, in our school, we had dances, games, a lot of confetti and plenty of fun.

On Thursday we held a loud march, with whistles and clackers, in town with placards made by the mums to show everybody how proud we are and then we were off to visit a neighbouring inicial to show off. To end the festivities there was a talent night on Thursday evening for all the inicial teachers from the district.

Our inicial teacher Lucy and her friends gave an amazing, and some might say “unique”, dance performance which i’m sure we won’t be forgetting any time soon. Happy 80th anniversary inicials in Peru!