Project Description Country: Colombia Location: Medellin Total Budget: $7,000 Area of Focus: Economic and community development Activity Type: Community Development: General Summary: Providing shoes to for the Poor Meddellin school children This project provides fitted shoes to about 1300 to 1400 extremely poor children including handicapped that are walking barefoot on dirt streets with puddles of dirty water, pigs/dogs waste etc. These small children who live in the slums of Medellin do not have the basic foot protection from many kinds of diseases. The purchase and distribution of the fitted shoes will be performed by a local NGO Shoes of the World (100% volunteers and no admin costs) supervised by a local Rotarian Enrique Atuesta of Club Rotario Medellin in District 4271 who will also be financially contributing to this project. The duration is one year from the date of start of the project Project Contact Person District: 5340 Rotary Club of: Del Mar-Solana Beach Primary Contact: Venky Venkatesh Email: venkat@gat.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 2016-17 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Del Mar-Solana Beach Sunrise (5340) 17-Jul-16 $5,000 - $5,000 Medellín-El Poblado (4271) 28-Jul-16 $1,000 $1,000 $2,000 Total $6,000 $1,000 $7,000

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [1-May-17] Bank Statement 1 [1-May-17] Bank Statement 2 [1-May-17] Bank Statement 3 [1-May-17] Expenditure Statement [1-May-17] Explanation of Bank Statements [6-May-17] P1428 - Final Report [1-May-17] Shoe Distribution Schools [10-Apr-17] Shoes to the World Conclusion [10-Apr-17] Shoes to the World Distributions, Shoes, and Finan

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History Log Entries 17-Jul-16 by Venky Venkatesh New $7k fully pledged project providing shoes to extremely poor children in Medellin, Columbia was initiated 17-Jul-16 System Entry System Entry: Creation of project page. 17-Jul-16 System Entry System Entry: Pledge of $1,000 with $1,000 DDF by Enrique Atuesta of the Rotary Club of Medellín, District 4271. 28-Jul-16 by Marta Knight In order for your project to be considered for DDF approval,it must be electronically signed by your Club President and your Primary Contact person. Detailed instructions are on the matching grants website> Help tab> Signature process. 28-Jul-16 by Venky Venkatesh System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 28-Jul-16 by Venky Venkatesh System Entry: Project signed by Venky Venkatesh. 28-Jul-16 by Venky Venkatesh System Entry: Project reverted to "Submitted" - Enrique Atuesta added to the list of signatories. 28-Jul-16 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Ken Barrett. 28-Jul-16 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Enrique Atuesta. 28-Jul-16 by Venky Venkatesh System Entry: Signature Process cancelled by user. 28-Jul-16 by Venky Venkatesh System Entry: Project reverted to "Published". 28-Jul-16 by Venky Venkatesh System Entry: Pledge of $1,000 with $1,000 DDF by Enrique Atuesta of the Rotary Club of Medellín-El Poblado, District 4271. 28-Jul-16 by Venky Venkatesh System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged". 28-Jul-16 by Venky Venkatesh System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 28-Jul-16 by Venky Venkatesh System Entry: Project signed by Venky Venkatesh. 29-Jul-16 by Liam Murphy System Entry: Project signed by Liam Murphy. 29-Jul-16 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Ken Barett. 29-Jul-16 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Enrique Atuesta. 2-Sep-16 by Venky Venkatesh Project is approved and will start from October 1, 2016 with distribution of the shoes to the poor school going children of Medellin, Columbia under the supervision of Host Rotarian Enrique Atuesta of Medellin El Poblado Rotary Club. 16-Nov-16 by Venky Venkatesh The project started on Oct 1, 2016 as planned and is in full swing. More than 10 schools in Medellin were visited and school children received shoes. More schools will be visited. The need is overwhelming and the distribution will continue as planned thru August 2017. There is a possibility that Del Mar Solana Beach Rotarians will be visiting Medellin to witness the distribution early next year. 3-Feb-17 by Venky Venkatesh The NGO "Shoes of the World" under Host Rotary supervision distributed 455 shoes to the poor Children of Medellin schools and plan to distribute the rest in March 2017. It is likely some Rotarians from our Del Mar Solana Beach Rotary may visit Columbia to witness this shoe distribution. 28-Mar-17 by Venky Venkatesh Project complete and distributed shoes to poor school going children of Medellin Columbia. Final Report is under preparation 11-Apr-17 by Venky Venkatesh All the documents for the final report has been uploaded. The project is complete. 6-May-17 by Venky Venkatesh Final Report in proper format and Bank Statements uploaded. 31-May-17 by Marta Knight System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 31-May-17 by Philippe Lamoise System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 31-May-17 by Philippe Lamoise System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 31-May-17 by Philippe Lamoise System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.