Project Description Region: Central America Country: Guatemala Location: Rabinal Total Budget: $250,000 Area of Focus: The environment This 2-year project will build on 5 years of prior work with 375 farm families, helping them adapt to climate change. We have six strategies 1. Capacity building: Train lead farmers to demonstrate to locals effective techniques with model parcels 2. Soil improvements: Promote and scale organic fertilizer production with local inputs. 3 Water: rainwater harvesting, crop cover, wells, and other interventions to promote water conservation. 4. Watershed protection: Large-scale re-forestation to strengthen soils and conserve water. 5 Service Delivery: Animal vaccinations and native seed distributions to encourage sustainable practices. 6. Agricultural technicians: employ indigenous, local language speaking youth to provide the training. Our project underwaent a thorough Rotary Cadre review last year and was lauded "This is the best project I have evaluated... ". Primary Host Partner District: 4250 Rotary Club of: Guatemala del Este Primary Contact: Peter Sherris Email: psherris@mac.com Primary International Partner District: 5170 Rotary Club of: Oakland Primary Contact: Peter Sherris Email: psherris@mac.com Project Status Need $239,719 This project needs to receive some pledges to go to the next level. Please check the "Financing" tab to see the list of current pledges. Once the amount pledged is equal to the project budget, the status of the project will be automatically changed to "Fully Pledged". Click here to pledge support for this project. Project listed for the 2025-26 Rotary Year. The TRF Grant application number is #2685131.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Oakland (5170) 23-Jan-26 $1 $5,556 $5,557 Las Vegas WON (5300) 9-Feb-26 $100 $100 $200 Remaining Amount to Raise Additional Club Contribution (Needed) - Add a contribution $239,719 - $239,719 Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation - $4,524 $4,524 Total $250,000 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 23-Jan-26 by Peter Sherris System Entry: Creation of project page. 9-Feb-26 by Chehab elawar System Entry: Pledge of $100 with $100 DDF by Chehab elawar of the Rotary Club of Las Vegas WON, District 5300.