GVICT Anual Report 2009

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Annual Report

1st July 2008 to30th June 2009


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Registered Charity number: 11114941

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Tha n ks for a l l you help.

Andy Woods-Ballard

TrusteesRichard Walton

Tabitha SymondsJennifer Walton


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Fourth Trustees Annual ReportJune 2008 to November 2009

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The Phoenix Projects: Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Per

In Latin America we are working together with Dom Williams of GVI to combat theimbalances in education, both primary and secondary, as well as daily food which areboth basic human rights. Through GVI Phoenix volunteers and the GVI CharitableTrust, a number of projects have been set up in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua,Ecuador and Peru.

In 2009, GVI Phoenix volunteers and the GVI Charitable Trust provided the following:

First time education or educationalreinforcement to over 1,650children.

Scholarships for primary educationin Guatemala exceed 550 children.

Over 150 children and adults willreceive secondary education.

Over 130 local people employeddirectly or indirectly.

10,000 trees will be planted

100 energy saving wood-burningstoves will be constructed.

Over 45,000 hours of teaching

1000s of pens, pencils, pencilsharpeners, colouring pencils,work-books and erasers will beprovided.

Over 400,000 pieces of fruitprovided

Over 350,000 whole or subsidizedmeals provided

Almost 500 elderly members of the community will be fed under the PlanAncianos.

100 families will benefit from the Plan Semilla (Seeds), Plan Fertilizante, PlanMoo (cows) and the Plan Pollo (live chickens).

It is hoped that we will be able to increase these figures in 2010.


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Education

In Guatemala, the teaching programs of GVI continueto be augmented through the provision of primary andsecondary scholarships for children through the GVI

Charitable Trust. Almost 300 children in the SanAndrs Itzapa project and over 250 children in theSanta Mara project now attend National School forhalf-days. We plan to have all the children in bothprograms attending national school, both primary andsecondary, over the coming years.

At the start of 2009, we built a further classroom in SanAndres Itzapa as the number of children passed over300. In 2009, thanks to volunteer donations, we builtthree new classrooms in Santa Maria Jesus toaccommodate the growing number of children.

Despite the recent problems in Honduras, GVI Phoenix has continued as normal. In2008, GVI started their first secondary school in the community of San Rafael,funding the teachers to allow first-time secondary education to the community.

In Nicaragua, GVI has built a two classroom school where around 40 kids arecurrently attending, and is giving Adult Literacy and English classes twice a week.They are currently making an additional open classroom due to the increasingnumber of kids attending.

In Ecuador, Plan Moo is underway,

whereby we purchase cows for families,which pays for future secondaryeducation for the children through salesof milk. Huayrapungo now have 6 of the 8cows needed to set the community on itsway. We want to expand Plan Moo intoour other communities over the nextcouple of years!

As for education, the rate of transitionfrom primary school to high school in

Ecuador is alarmingly low. Our aim is to ensure that the children are physically,

mentally and emotionally prepared for secondary school education and thenfinancially support them through it.

In Per, secondary scholarships are still handed out. As well as our education inliteracy and numeracy, we have also started further schemes including a foodprogram for the elderly generation and a medical insurance program for the children.We are expanding our work further afield and hopefully into new communities aroundArequipa, bringing our reach in 2009 to four or five communities.


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The Seed/Organic Fertilizer and Chicken Scheme

This year has seen the second annualPlan Fertilizante (Fertilizer Plan) in SantaMara de Jess, an alternative to micro-

credit, where no actual money isinvolved, rather physical products.

In times gone by, the families usedchemicals to enhance the soil, which isneither sustainable and the prices havedoubled over the past year, leaving thesoil in a worse state, and no income.

Our Plan Fertilizante distributed 600 pounds (275 kilos) to each of our 135 familiesinvolved in the GVI Phoenix School, or to put it in bigger terms, 81,000 pounds(36,818 kilos) or 36 tonnes of organic fertilizer. This is not a handout, as the familieshave to comply with a couple of rules to enforce parental responsibility. The first andforemost is that their child or children must be in the school with us every day. Thesecond is that, in exchange for the fertilizer, they must give some products for thePlan Ancianos which we run, which include cooking oil, pasta, beans, rice and sugaron receipt.

Furthermore, after each successful crop, they must repeat this, thereby helpingtowards the Plan Ancianos, and also "repaying" the fertilizer.

Stoves

These Stove Construction projects arenow successful running in Guatemala,Honduras and Nicaragua, and thissummer saw GVI Ecuador and Perusnew stove building project begin inearnest.

From an economical standpoint with thestoves, the families will only have to

collect or buy up to a third of the firewoodthey used to, and spend less onmedicines for chronic lung illnesses.Environmentally, the deforestation oftrees is essentially reduced by two-thirds

per family. Medically, with no smoke inhalation due to the chimney, the health of thefamilies is greatly improved.


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Plan Ancianos

Having been piloted in Guatemala this programaims to increase awareness of age issues in LatinAmerica and help to feed those who cannot look

after themselves. At present this section of thecommunity is neglected, undernourished andsuffering increasingly from chronic health problemsthat are badly understood at present amongst theaging population in Latin America. This issue isbecoming more prominent with predictions that by2025 1 in 7 Latin American people (98 million) willbe over 60.

In Guatemala this problem is especially dire, asmany of the elderly women have no one to lookafter them having lost sons, husbands, brothers etc.in the civil war. This scheme has now been startedin Per as well.

GVI Phoenix Reforestation in Guatemala

For the past couple of years, GVI Phoenix hasundertaken a reforestation program in Guatemala,thanks to a part of the volunteer financial input andthe GVI Charitable Trust. This year we are planting10,000 trees.

The women's group in Itzapa must tend to theseedlings, watering and caring for the tree lings duringthe year (from September) until they are ready toplant. GVI Phoenix then buys the trees back off them,so there is an income for the group, and each family

of the children who attend the school can take asmany trees as they can plant wherever they can, oftenon a small piece of land in the hills.


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Olives Childcare and Orphanage Projects, Kenya

Olives Rehabilitation Centre was setup in 2001 to educate, clothe, feed and

provide counselling and religiouseducation services to some ofMombasas most vulnerable children.The centre currently hosts around 130of the neediest children with manyothers patiently waiting for theopportunity to join them.

From July 2009, GVI Olives hopes tosupport this project as well as severalothers by placing volunteers with themto assist.

In the summer of this year, the kidsstarted the term in their brand newschool. The move to Olive RehabilitationCentres current location is highlysignificant. Foremost, the larger classsizes will grant over one hundred morelocal children access to free educationand healthy food children who arecurrently going without an education dueto lack of funds.

Tumaini Childrens Home is located in Bamburi next to Bombolulu and is a HIV

orphanage which offers family support and education for children between 3 monthsto 12 years. GVI made contact with the founder of the orphanage and arranged withthe manager, Elizabeth, to send volunteers to help with the behind the scenesrunning of the centre, which is purely run on donations.

Precious Vision Childrens School, located in the Bomobulu slum of Mombasa, isa community run school providing education & meals when donations allow fordisadvantaged children. PreciousVision was started in 2007 by Jane(right), who was moved to start a freeschool in the slum suburb of

Shauriyako after becoming concernedwith the amount of local children notreceiving any primary education dueto lack of funds. She also assists localcommunity members in theprosecution process relating to sexualabuse cases of the student


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Mkwiro and Wasini Island Community Fund

The village of Mkwiro on the island ofWasini in south-east Kenya is the home ofan orphanage for poor and parentless boysfrom across south-eastern Kenya. Thisfund was initially set up to transform theorphanage from a barren, bed-less,orphanage into a bright, vibrant andstimulating place for the orphans to live.Beds and mosquito nets have greatlyincreased the health and vigour of thechildren and along with concrete floors,water storage and murals on the wallshave greatly increased their quality of life.

This has been so successful that the building of a second orphanage is currently

being funded for the girls of the region.

On top of this vital work, the GVI Charitable Trust is funding the running and staffingof a pharmacy on the island that has been stocked by DANIDA funding. Finally, thefund is helping reform the water collection and storage on the island. This vitalresource is in short supply on the island and working with an internationalengineering firm, we are bringing this to the attention of the World HealthOrganisation.

Tsavo West ex-poacher rehabilitation

In 2006, Kidong, Kasaani and Mahandakini, three villages along the Tsavo WestNational Park border, elected to give up poaching in favour of sustainable alternativelivelihoods. This is where GVI in conjunction with the World Society for the Protectionof Animals (WSPA) stepped in and offered to provide assistance in developingsustainable alternative means of income generation in these villages.

With assistance from both GVI and WSPA the community of Kidong has constructedthe Kidong Cultural and Education Centre. The Education Centre provides freeeducation to communities abouthumane means of deterring elephantsfrom farming land. The Cultural Centreis currently being developed as a

tourism centre where tourists can comeand learn about Kidongs story FromPoachers to Protectors.

GVI and WSPA have also helped bydeveloping a Food Security Programand assisting with the improvement ofthe Cotton Processing Industry inMahandakini.

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