P-974

Got Your Back

Description

Financing

Documents

Photos

History Logs

Project Description

Country: USA

Location: San Diego & Orange County

Total Budget: $3,000

Areas of Focus: Disease prevention and treatment, Maternal and child health, Basic education and literacy, Economic and community development

Activity Type: Food/Agriculture: General

Summary: Weekend food for homeless children in San Diego and Orange Counties


Homeless children of San Diego and Orange County do not have food on the weekends, the protein we will be providing will be added to other foods, placed in backpacks, and distributed to homeless children through their elementary school. There are approximately 16,000 homeless students within the two counties who will be served with food for their weekend, each

week throughout the school year. Hungry children have difficulty paying attention in school and studying, have long-term physical, emotional and behavioral issues, social difficulties, mood swings, show aggression, truancy, become bullies, and are hyperactive. Approximately 50% of our club members will shop and purchase proteins and peanut butter during the school year (September thru June) to be added to the weekend food backpacks distributed to the children each week.


Addendum to Project Description (added after the project was signed)

The administrator of "Got Your Back" informed us the best pricing for the items we were going to purchase could be obtained through vendor they regularly use. We agreed to have a $3,000 purchase made on our behalf. Instead of having our club members do the shopping, we arranged a work day at the warehouse after the purchase was made.

Because the backpacks are stuffed on Tuesday nights, it became difficult to get enough club members available for that portion of the project. Instead, our club members, and a few club guests, unpackaged cases of food items into individual cans and packets and stocked the shelves so that the team of volunteers could easily place them into the backpacks. We also had to weigh the cases of food for government reporting by the organization.

Project Contact Person

District: 5320

Rotary Club of: E-Club of the West

Primary Contact: Rae Beimer

Email: raebeimer@caaprofessionals.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

E-Club of the West (5320)

14-Jun-15

$1,500

$1,500

$3,000

Total

$1,500

$1,500

$3,000

Project Supporting Documents

Project Photos

History Log Entries

14-Jun-15

System Entry

Creation of project page.

14-Jun-15

System Entry

Project sent for club signatures.

14-Jun-15

System Entry

Project signed by Kim DeBroux.

14-Jun-15

System Entry

Project signed by Rae Beimer.

26-Jul-15

System Entry

Project approved by the District Approval Committee.

2-Sep-15

System Entry

Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer.

2-Apr-16

by Kim DeBroux

Today we completed our project with almost 50% of our club members participating in the hands-on portion by stocking the shelves of the Got Your Back organization. Here is a link to a video we recorded of the founder speaking about the organization and how helpful the food we purchased and the time we spent organizing the donated food today was:

https://youtu.be/lqxJgyL6kuo?list=PLTv_jwqCqPlIb8s0aWtv9uxKpFsZb0H_j

5-May-16

System Entry

Project has been implemented and final report uploaded.

5-May-16

System Entry

Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.

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