School Meals at Lake Atitlán, Guatemala

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School Meals at Lake Atitlán, Guatemala

Summary

Providing a daily balanced diet for 200 children in the Peña Blanca community elementary school. Often, this is the children's only meal of the day.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Many children in the community 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: $1,734
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $11,146
Total Funding Goal: $12,880

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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, hence the introduction of the food program.

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

Andy Woods-Ballard,
Director of Operations
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

Organization

Global Vision International Charitable Trust
GVI-Charitable Trust
1st Floor 3 High Street
St Albans, Herts. AL3 4ED
United Kingdom
44 (0) 870 608 8898
http://www.gvi.org.uk/

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 November 14, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

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

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