All the personal donations we receive go to fund the education of our students. Specific grants from other foundations have allowed us to expand our activities and offer various opportunities to a wider community.
Music:
We work with Keys of Change, a UK charity founded by concert pianist Panos Karan.
15 of our students are learning to play the guitar.
Many of students and relatives are also learning Arab dancing.
We are supporting a summer music school in a deprived area of Quito in July and August 2016.
Our students are now going out into the community themselves, performing to children in hospital in Quito.
Eye tests and glasses:
Thanks to a Foundation in Switzerland, in 2013 we organised over 1,000 eye tests and paid for 250 pairs of glasses for children in primary schools in the poorest parts of Quito. The programme expanded in 2014 and 2015 and is continuing in 2016.
Setting up a clothing business:
The Condor Trust is working with a local charity to teach mothers from a particularly low-income community in Quito how to sew and how to set up a clothing business, so they can in future better support their families.
