THE NEW GVI-CHARITABLE TRUST WEB SITE

Now live:

The new website is now live, with more information on the projects we are supporting and a downloadable version of the most recent Annual Report for details of how your donations have helped. Over the coming months we will be adding to this site a GVI-CT shop. This will enable you to send gifts to friends and relatives of donations to your favourite projects.

Cycle Challenge:

Old Town Outfitters together with the GVI-CT are running a series of cycle challenges from Guatemala to Honduras. For more information please click here.

URGENT APPEALS

Latin America:

Here are just some of the children of Latin America that GVI have been helping. With the aid of the GVI-CT we hope to increase this aid and provide more scholarships, food, education and above all increase the well being of some of the poorest children on earth.

Your donations will go towards helping children in all the countries where GVI teach in Latin America.

The smallest amounts can help. Why not consider making a donation on someone's behalf for Christmas?

Click here to make your contribution to the children and follow these steps: 1) Click Donate Now. 2) Select the amount you would like to contribute or click on ‘Other'. 3) Log in or register with Just Giving. 4) Follow payment instructions.

Cheetah:

In the last 100 or so years the range of the Cheetah has declined to fragmented and scarcely viable populations in Africa. They are currently the most endangered large cat in Africa.

Mike Scantlebury (of the Mammal Research Institute) and The Queens University of Belfast together with GVI in South Africa are looking for funding for ground breaking and vital research focussing on the energetics of cheetah. This will lead to a better understanding of their behaviour and the reasons for their decline in populations across Africa.

The research is planned to be carried out on Karongwe game reserve, with a technique using double labeled water (DLW) to measure the animals' daily energy expenditure. The DLW is expensive and the GVI-CT are aiding with funding for this important work to assist in the plight of the cheetah.

Click here to make your contribution to this research and follow these steps: 1) Click Donate Now. 2) Select the amount you would like to contribute or click on ‘Other'. 3) Log in or register with Just Giving. 4) Follow payment instructions.

RECENT SUCCESSES

Colegio Urcusiqui:

The proposed secondary school for the children of 26 indigenous communities in Ecuador has had a huge boost recently that will ensure the fruition of this project. Through the hard efforts of some of the ex GVI volunteers and staff, the GVI-CT has already secured funds of almost £2,000, which will cover most of the building costs.

However with a large donation from the Grace Foundation UK, thanks to two of the ex-volunteers, the first year's running costs are also secure.

The Colegio will ensure the indigenous children of this region can get a free education and a bright future.

DONATIONS

Donations to this or any other project supported by the GVI-CT are very welcome. For more details of the how to donate and all the supported projects, please visit the GVI-CT website. Please click here.

Mkwiro village fund:

The Mkwiro village fund has now ensured that all the children of the orphanage have beds and mosquito nets. The main dorm room has changed from this:

to this:

The mosquito nets are incredibly important in this region. For example before they were introduced Juma, one of the children, contracted malaria. Due to a lack of a pharmacist he then had to wait to get to the mainland for treatment. The GVI-CT are now paying the wage for a pharmacist at the DANIDA funded pharmacy to stop this potentially life threatening situation from happening again:

Finally of interest the GVI-CT are hoping to team up with Arup, a UK based engineering firm to improve the water collection and storage facilities on the island and how the island deals with its waste water.

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