Project Description Region: Africa Country: Zimbabwe Location: Zimbabwe Africa Total Budget: $137,088 Area of Focus: Community economic development We are requesting assistance in the continued development of Additional Rural Bush Community Gardens in Zimbabwe, Africa. Why is the expansion of more and more community gardens so important in these rural areas? 1. Zimbabwe has been in a serious drought for years. They are beginning to import grains. 2. The Empowerment of Women is realized through these community gardens as women are the primary workers in these gardens. 3. Year-round crop rotation is the answer to self-sustainability and becoming self-sufficient. 4. Each community garden is developed by drilling a water well (borehole) in a community of at least 85 homesteads in the bush. The average homestead has 5 people living in it, so almost 500 people are impacted in a positive way when a new community garden is developed. 5. Each new garden costs $14,438 to get up and growing. This money goes to drill a borehole, solar power the water pump that pushes the water to the jojo tanks that hold 10,000L of water. The water from the jojo tanks is gravity fed down to the gardens which allows a YEAR-ROUND CROP ROTATION. YES, now there is food year-round. 6. The Buy a Brick Foundation has opened a total of 12 community gardens and school gardens. The Buy a Brick Foundation is the boots on the ground that organized these projects. The uses of their tractor to plow up the land for the community has been awesome. 7. Please partner with us as we want to open 10 more community gardens in Zimbabwe, Africa in 2023. Partner with us in a little or all of the community gardens. 8. We are looking to expand 3 Community Gardens right now. May June July 2023 Best regards to all - Gib Leonard, Rotary Club of Washington DC making a difference in Zimbabwe, Africa for the past 20 years. +1 202-359-4900. Primary Host Partner District: 7620 Rotary Club of: Washington, D.C. Primary Contact: Gib Leonard Email: gibleonard@gmail.com Primary International Partner We are looking for a Club partner. Click here to pledge support for this project. Recording a pledge will make you the Primary International Partner for this project. Project Status Your project is "Fully Pledged". This means the amount of the pledges is equal to the total budget of the project. Now the project needs to be finalized and go through the approval process with The Rotary Foundation. This process gets started on the administration page. Project listed for the 2022-23 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Washington, D.C. (7620) 20-Jun-23 $9,823 $0 $9,823 Washington, D.C. (7620) 18-Aug-23 $33,491 $33,491 $66,982 Washington, D.C. (7620) 18-Aug-23 $33,491 $0 $33,491 Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation - $26,792 $26,792 Total $137,088 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 28-Mar-23 System Entry System Entry: Creation of project page. 20-Jun-23 by Gib Leonard System Entry: Pledge of $9,823 by Gib Leonard of the Rotary Club of Washington, D.C., District 7620. 18-Aug-23 by Gib Leonard System Entry: Pledge of $33,491 with $33,491 DDF by Gib Leonard of the Rotary Club of Washington, D.C., District 7620. 18-Aug-23 by Gib Leonard System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged". 18-Aug-23 by Gib Leonard System Entry: Pledge of $033,491 by Gib Leonard of the Rotary Club of Washington, D.C., District 7620.