Project Description Region: Central America Country: Mexico Location: Chiapas Total Budget: $30,000 Areas of Focus: Disease prevention and treatment, Maternal and child health Needs The Sierra of Chiapas is classified as one of the country's marginalized (high-poverty) areas by the Mexican government, based on indicators such as literacy and access to water and sanitation. The population of the municipality of Siltepec, where CES works, has being designated as 47.25% highly marginalized, and an additional 36.81% very highly marginalized. Only 46% of its population has primary school education, and it has a child mortality rate of 31.6 per 1000 live births, meaning one in every 30 infants does not live into childhood. Perpetuating this state of affairs, the public rural health posts scattered throughout the region and charged with providing primary health care in Chiapas have not been empowered to meet their full potential. Due to lack of funding and support, these rural clinics are frequently closed for lack of staff, and clinic nurses find it difficult to help patients without adequate supplies or support. Many clinics do not have, or have never had, a physician on staff. How this project will meet those needs The Vocational Training Team will build the local capacity to take care of the burden of disease within the population. We will train nurses who would otherwise not have access to education as well as junior doctors all while building and supporting an electronic medical record that will be transformative for care. (1) Two fully trained doctors on site from the United States in Chiapas for the next two years. (2) Training and support of junior doctors from all over Mexico. (3) Allow for young women committed to their community to get further nursing training over the course of two years. (4) Build and support an Electronic Medical Records platform (EMR) for communities in highly indigenous, poor regions of Mexico. How funds will be used (1) Training. (2) Development and implementation of the EMR. How club members will be involved (1) Visit clinics to observe training. (2) Assist in developing the EMR. (3) Communicate progress to the International Club. (4) Publicize project. Primary Host Partner District: 4195 Rotary Club of: Oriente de Tuxtla Gutiérrez Primary Contact: Mario Avendano Email: marioeam@gmail.com Primary International Partner District: 5170 Rotary Club of: Palo Alto Primary Contact: Walt Hays Email: wkhays@igc.org 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. The TRF Grant application number is #1634808.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total District 5170 DDF 13-Nov-15 - $7,500 $7,500 Remaining Amount to Raise Additional Club Contribution (Needed) - Add a contribution $10,000 - $10,000 Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation $5,000 $7,500 $12,500 Total $30,000 Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.

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History Log Entries 13-Nov-15 System Entry Creation of project page. 31-Dec-15 System Entry Project is now "Fully Pledged". 31-Dec-15 System Entry Project reverted to "Published". 2-Sep-16 System Entry System Entry: Project dropped per lack of response to the carry-over notification emails.