Area of Focus: Peacebuilding and conflict prevention
The main objective of this grant is to build peace in 21 villages in No. Kenya, which have suffered from years with inter-ethnic conflict and violence. The new method here is designed to bring peace in these conflict ridden areas by using children and their parents as the primary peace building agents, rather than village elders an officials who have not be successful.
This new model has been developed and refine by a collaboration of Rotary clubs and Districts with the Children's Peace Initiative-Kenya over a 5 year period and uses paired rural/pastoral communities that have a long history of conflict between them. The basic stages and budget costs include 5 day training Teachers Trainers, 4 day Children's Peace Camps, 3 day Child-Family Pairing events, 3 day Conflict and Peace trainings for parents, 8 day Peace Exchange Holiday programs, Training in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Conflict methods, and Consultation with the CPI staff after the funds have been spent to repair, restore, an expand the conflict resolution skills and activities.
The project will begin in the Fall of 2016 and last for 2 years. Rotarian involvement includes preparation of the plan, training modules, and budget, handling the grant funds,
visiting the projects, informing the children, parents, and teachers about Rotary, assisting the CPI staff, a friendship exchange to Kenya, and work on the Monitoring, Sustainability and Evaluation of the project. The $11,960 contributed by the Tucson Rotary Club is matched and given as DDF.
February 3, 2022 UPDATE. The project has been underway for several years now with very successful results. It is expected to finally end in the latter part of 2022. The reports are current and there is a lot of activity ongoing and scheduled for the Spring of 2022. The Millimani RC in Kenya is actively following and monitoring the progress and club members have visited the project.
Completed
This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by The Rotary Foundation. 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.
The TRF Grant application number is #1640711.
Proposed Financing
Existing Contributions Towards This Project
Date
Cash
DDF
Total
Milimani (9212)
30-Jun-16
$1,000
$0
$1,000
District 5500 DDF
30-Jun-16
-
$40,575
$40,575
District 5490 DDF
10-Jul-16
-
$2,000
$2,000
Modesto Sunrise (5220)
10-Jul-16
$4,000
$0
$4,000
El Cajon Sunset (5340)
7-Sep-16
$4,000
$4,000
$8,000
Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation
$4,500
$46,575
$51,075
Total
$106,650
DDF contributions in grey are pending approval of the corresponding district committee.
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
30-Jun-16
System Entry
System Entry: Creation of project page.
10-Jul-16
by Sally Montagne
System Entry: Pledge of $2 DDF by Paul Pulicken of District 5490.
10-Jul-16
by Sally Montagne
System Entry: Pledge of $4,000 DDF by Janice Kurth of District 5320.
10-Jul-16
by Sally Montagne
System Entry: Pledge of $4,000 DDF by Janice Kurth of District 5340.
10-Jul-16
System Entry
System Entry: Pledge of $4,000 with $4,000 DDF by David Ballesteros of the Rotary Club of El Cajon Sunset, District 5340.
10-Jul-16
System Entry
System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged".
10-Jul-16
by Sally Montagne
System Entry: Pledge of $4,000 by David Gallagher of the Rotary Club of Modesto Sunrise, District 5220.
24-Aug-16
by Janice Kurth
System Entry: Pledge of $4,000 by Mark Wheeler of the Rotary Club of La Mesa, District 5340.
24-Aug-16
by Janice Kurth
System Entry: Pledge of $4,000 DDF by Richard Makau of the Rotary Club of El Cajon Sunset, District 5340.
7-Sep-16
by Janice Kurth
System Entry: Pledge of $4,000 with $4,000 DDF by Richard Makau of the Rotary Club of El Cajon Sunset, District 5340.
7-Sep-16
by Janice Kurth
System Entry: Application Sent to The Rotary Foundation through Member Access.
16-Mar-17
by Sally Montagne
Application approved on March 3, 2017.
26-Jun-17
by Sally Montagne
System Entry: Application approved by The Rotary Foundation.
26-Jun-17
by Sally Montagne
System Entry: Payment has been issued by The Rotary Foundation.
12-Apr-20
by Sally Montagne
Yearly report has been submitted. Project is near completion.
3-Jan-21
by Sally Montagne
Reported and still in progress.
2-Feb-22
by Sally Montagne
2020-2021: Project was on hold for much of this period, resuming in the Fall of 2021.
1/5/22- Lastest Progress Report approved by TRF.
3-Jul-23
by Janice Kurth
System Entry: Final Report sent to The Rotary Foundation.
3-Jul-23
by Janice Kurth
System Entry: Final Report approved by The Rotary Foundation.
