Project Description Country: Malawi Location: Mangochi Dist-S Malawi Total Budget: $5,000 Area of Focus: Economic and community development Activity Type: Community Development: Disaster Recovery Summary: Rebuilding seven orphan foster family homes destroyed by floods in the Malawi Children's Village area, Mangochi District of Southern Malawi, Africa Malawi Children's Village (MCV), located in the Mangochi District of southern Malawi, Africa, provides a village based orphan care program (not an orphanage) that relies on the traditional African extended families to care for the children. Over 2,000 HIV/AIDS orphans are supported as they live with members of their foster or extended family in 37 villages. MCV supports children from birth to eighteen years providing, shelter, food, safety, health care and education until they can live independent healthy lives. In early 2015, in the 37 villages supported by MCV, over 100 homes were destroyed by floods, including homes of foster parents hosting MCV children and students. Many of these MCV foster families are now living in very cramped quarters, sharing the homes of other families. The cost of a permanent and upgraded village house is close to $700. New houses built by volunteers supervised by a Malawian Forman, takes a week to build. This $5000 Rotary Foundation grant ($2500 from Palmer Rotary Club and $2500 match from Rotary District 5010) will buy building materials for seven new homes. A 5 member team from the Palmer, Alaska Rotary Club is traveling to Malawi the week of May 22, 2016 to lay bricks and do other construction work to build one of the seven homes. Project Contact Person District: 5010 Rotary Club of: Palmer Primary Contact: LaMarr Anderson Email: lamarra05@gmail.com Project Status Completed This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners. Project listed for the 2015-16 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Palmer (5010) 13-Feb-16 $2,500 $2,500 $5,000 Total $2,500 $2,500 $5,000

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [15-Aug-16] Expendatures - Receipts [15-Aug-16] Houses-Guardian and Orphan ID Info Sheet [13-Feb-16] Project Budget [17-Aug-16] Project Final Report [15-Aug-16] Receipts # 6,9,15 Darkened [15-Aug-16] Total Expenditures Summary

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History Log Entries 13-Feb-16 by LaMarr Anderson Replacement project for earlier approved P-843 District Grant Project. P-843 project had to be terminated due to growing uncertainty of project viability. 13-Feb-16 System Entry Creation of project page. 22-Feb-16 System Entry Project sent for club signatures. 22-Feb-16 System Entry Project signed by LaMarr Anderson. 10-Mar-16 System Entry Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 7-May-16 System Entry Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 15-Aug-16 by LaMarr Anderson The five-member Palmer Rotary team were in country-on site from May 20 to May 29th. We provided hands-on assistance in building two of the seven new homes financed by this District Grant. The homes of each of the seven were visited and the owner/orphan guardian of each home, as well as the supported orphan who were present at some of the locations, were met. The joy and thanks of the guardians and orphans for their new metal roofed and water defying fired brick homes were ample reward for the club's financial support and the visiting team's travel and brick moving work! Rotarian support through this district grant provided seven of the total of fifteen new homes that the Malawi Children's Village was able to have built this year. 17-Aug-16 by LaMarr Anderson System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 21-Aug-16 by Denise Ringhand System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.