Project Description Country: Srilanka Location: Pamunugama Total Budget: $6,000 Area of Focus: Community economic development Activity Type: Food/Agriculture: General Summary: Ensure house hold food security by introducing appropriate technology in safe food production while sharing their excess at a fair price to others creating additional income for children education among marginalized communities It needs to create awareness and mobilizing marginalized house hold women to initiate micro level agro /livestock base food production and provide with them know how in appropriate low cost technology application to crate additional income generation while ensuring the house hold food security.Further encouraging sharing their excess food with other villagers through fair trade marketing that to be introduce and promote with the guidance of Parish priests of the churches in these areas.Awareness will be created to spend this additional income for their children education providing with them better opportunities and paths towards education. Addendum to Project Description (added after the project was signed) A model Organic participatory Farm has been initiated to grow organic vegetable. Project Contact Person District: 3220 Rotary Club of: Pamunugama Primary Contact: sunil Rodrigo Email: susasiri@slt.lk Project Status Dropped This project has been "Dropped". Check the history log entries to see why it was dropped. Project listed for the 2015-16 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Pamunugama (3220) 4-Jun-15 $3,000 $3,000 $6,000 Total $3,000 $3,000 $6,000

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [16-Sep-15] Food security estimated budget [16-Sep-15] Food security estimated Budget

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History Log Entries 4-Jun-15 System Entry Creation of project page. 16-Sep-15 by sunil Rodrigo Progress; 1.Awareness and mobilization campaign started to identify potential house holds 21-Oct-15 by sunil Rodrigo MObilization of potential entrepreneurs has been completed and First awarenss programme wa held to select potential entreprenuers in respective sectors such as Agro/Livestock/Fishery and marketing 21-Oct-15 System Entry Project sent for club signatures. 21-Oct-15 System Entry Project signed by sunil Rodrigo. 12-Jan-16 by sunil Rodrigo Vegetable and fruit plants were distributed among the project participants to produce eco friendly safe vegetable and fruits with using compost fertilizer and herbal pesticide 14-Jan-16 by sunil Rodrigo Milk cans were distributed to small dairy farmers in the area aiming to promote rearing milking cows as a secondary income generating activity for the village households. 18-Feb-16 by sunil Rodrigo Awareness,training and development in Mushroom growing conducted for potential project participants 7-Mar-16 by sunil Rodrigo Carrying out awareness in village poultry rearing for potential project participants 8-Apr-16 by sunil Rodrigo Distribution of Village poultry chicks among project participants 3-May-16 by sunil Rodrigo Training & Development session with the assistance of Animal Production & Health department was carried out to fill the existing gaps of the village poultry rearing programme. 20-Jun-16 by sunil Rodrigo 01 metric ton of compost fertilizer was distributed among the project participants 2-Nov-16 by sunil Rodrigo An awareness and 01 Day training programme in rearing village free range poultry has been given to 24 women with the asistance of animal Health Production department training center at Kotadeniywa 18-Dec-16 by sunil Rodrigo The women involved with village poultry programme formed a society and elected their chairwoman,secretary,Treasurer and 3 committee members to facilitate their communications and activities. 6-Jan-17 by sunil Rodrigo women of the poultry society was given nets to put up cages and poultry feed and drinking equipment 7-Feb-17 by sunil Rodrigo Vegetable seedlings and fruit plants were distributed to encourage home gardening at house holds in the area 5-Mar-17 by sunil Rodrigo Awareness programme on Piggery was organized with the Livestock officer in the area and given funds to five women entrepreneurs to start up small house hold piggeries. 16-May-17 by sunil Rodrigo Women involve in Food Security Programme is being mobilized to form a village society to empower them to handle their own affairs and strengthen them with training & development and appropriate Technology application. 25-Jun-17 by sunil Rodrigo 45 women were taken to Kalpitiya Agriculture Government farm for field training and private sector fruit & vegetable farm visits arranged in NOrochcholei Agriculture Zone 27-Jul-17 by sunil Rodrigo An awareness programme to encourage alternative packaging to polythene was conducted at the center. Usage of reeds, paper and clothes were introduced as potential materials for alternatives. 20-Sep-17 by sunil Rodrigo Aloevera plants were distributed among women as a house hold income generating activity along with establishment of the market link for selling aloevera leaves. 3-Dec-17 by sunil Rodrigo Piggery as a house hold livelihood activity was introduced to the members of the Food security programme in January 2017 and animal health services were introduced to ensure productivity. 16-Feb-18 by sunil Rodrigo Monthly fair trade on every last Saturday of the month has been started with the participation of the village producers to market their products at a fair price for the villages while encouraging others to grow, get involve with livestock activities and food preparing. 2-Mar-18 by sunil Rodrigo An Awareness programme on House hold food Security and daily nutrition requirement and advantage of organic products grown at house hold were held at the Rotary Training center. 18-May-18 by sunil Rodrigo Fair trade to sell their product produce at house hold has set up to conduct every Saturday evening in front of the Rotary Club has been arranged. 2-Aug-18 by sunil Rodrigo Fair trade Fair has been initiated every Saturday Evening at the Pamunugama Rotary center to sell & market their agro,livestock and foodswhich they produced organically. 7-Nov-18 by sunil Rodrigo Training & development programme for entrepreneurship development was held for the members of the society at Rotary Centre Pamunugama, Srilanka. Plant distribution programme would be held in December 2018 enhance the house hold lifestyle with safe Food production. 20-Feb-19 by sunil Rodrigo Women group started to organize a sharing model farm to grow organic vegetableto share with their end users. 8-Aug-19 by sunil Rodrigo Awareness programme held to maintain clean kitchen to facilitate general health of the house holds,80 women taken part 18-Oct-19 by Philippe Lamoise System Entry: Project dropped by Philippe Lamoise. Reason for dropping: Project is not from a district that is using the website for their internal DDF application process, therefore it cannot be updated properly.