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School for Mayan Children, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

Summary

Our program is supplying funding for additional resources for the Pena Blanca primary school, including extra staffing to reduce class sizes and improve levels of education. progress reportread updates from the field


How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of £6,100 was raised for this project.

Received £6,100 from 257 donations from people around the world like:

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The number of students and families reached can be greatly increased by additional staffing. However, additional resources for the current teachers at the school would be beneficial and would allow the potential for higher levels of success for the children. These include: day-to-day teaching materials, developmental and supplemental materials, and a resource center.

Activities

Through education and further education, we can help the community improve their own conditions for the future. We aim to reduce the child/teacher ratio on the ground and in the classroom to provide a well-grounded education.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £6,100

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled £6,100.  The original project funding goal was £6,348.

Additional Documentation

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

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Through education and further education, we can assist the community to improve their own conditions into the future

Project Message

When I grow older, I want to become a lawyer or a teacher, I am not quite sure yet!
- Gerson, Student

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Ross Deans,

1st Floor
3 High Street
St Albans, Herts AL3 4ED
United Kingdom
00 44 870 608 8898
Email:

Project Sponsor

Global Vision International Charitable Trust--Sponsor

Organisation

Global Vision International Charitable Trust Logo 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 Education.

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 January 17, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

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

Latest Update from the Field

Thank you for your support

By Ross Deans - GVI Charitable Trust Manager, January 17, 2012 01:55 PM

We have been working with Pena Blanca, an Indigenous community on the edge of Guatemala’s beautiful Lake Atitlan for a number of years. Over this period volunteers have joined us from around the world to work in the school providing much needed classroom assistance. In addition donors have given generously helping us to work with the community to make dramatic improvements to the standard of and accessibility to education.

Project director Dom Williams explains: 'There are now 6 regular teachers in the school and the government has started to increase their own food supplies for the school. Thanks to the past few years of our involvement, the realisation that the work is necessary has given the community new impetus to move forward on their own.'

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who has supported us and the community during this time, none of this would have been possible without you.

We will now be focusing our efforts in Guatemala on our work near to Antigua. We have a separate project live for this project which can be seen here. We work with two communities and have established our own schools which provide free daily education and food programs to some of the areas poorest children.

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