School Meals for Indigenous Children in Guatemala

Summary

This project will help to provide a daily balanced diet in school for over 500 Indigenous children. Often, this will be the children's only meal of the day. progress report read updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Many children in these communities do not have a balanced diet and recent studies show that Guatemala is on a par with Haiti as the the country with the worst child malnutrition in Latin America. This program aids the development of the children: improves child health improves concentration level improves school attendance improves education improves the potential for the child

Activities

Fruit is provided in the morning, which includes pineapples, bananas, watermelons, cantaloupe, mangoes and oranges; lunch is then provided, including fresh produce, noodles, rice, beans and lentils. To benefit, the children must attend school.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £6,595
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £6,763
Total Funding Goal: £13,358

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

An educated child can potentially increase the family income in the community. To become educated, the child must be reasonably healthy and attend school, the food program has increased attendance and subsequently grades have risen dramatically. Previously many of these children would have missed out on education, now some earn grades which are in the top 10% for the country.

Project Message

When I first spent time with the kids, most of the kids had a heart-wrenching cough and noses runny with green and yellow goop. The meals are helping and the kids are in school. We need to continue
- Joy Peterson, Whole Planet Foundation

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Ross Deans,

3rd Floor
The Senate
Exeter, Devon EX1 1UG
United Kingdom
00 44 870 608 8898
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Project Sponsor

Global Vision International Charitable Trust--Sponsor

Organisation

Global Vision International Charitable Trust
Third Floor
The Senate
Exeter, Devon EX1 1UG
United Kingdom
+44 1727 250 250
http://www.gvi.org

Learn more about Global Vision International Charitable Trust and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Guatemala and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Guatemala, read the Human Development Report on Guatemala or the Wikipedia entry for Guatemala.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 01, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 04, 2008.

Latest Update from the Field

Amazing support for the GVI Charitable Trust

By Alice Burrow - GVI Charitable trust, February 01, 2012 10:26 AM

We would like to share the most recent trustee report from the GVI Charitable Trust. This report covers the six month period from July to December 2011.

This has been by far the most successful period. In six months we have raised nearly as much as we did the whole previous year. This increase in funding has brought a corresponding increase in the impact we have been able to create on our programs around the world.

During this period we have invested in sustainable education across Latin America. This includes support for the elderly in Guatemala and income generation schemes to support education in Honduras and Ecuador. In Mexico we have worked with a community to establish a recycling centre and in Kenya our partners in Mombasa will now see impoverished students complete primary education to earn qualifications for the first time.

These are just a few highlights of an amazing, productive and rewarding six months. Thank you to everyone who has supported us and played a crucial role in these achievements.

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GVI Charitable Trust Annual Report (PDF)

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