Project Description Region: Asia Country: Philippines Location: Quezon City Total Budget: $71,000 Areas of Focus: Peacebuilding and conflict prevention, Basic education and literacy, Community economic development To provide the skills for employment, alleviate poverty and promote peace, the "Cooking for Life" project aims to provide education and develop culinary skills for 100 indigent men and women from depressed communities in Quezon City. The"Cooking for Life" training program shall be conducted in partnership with the Culinary Foundation Inc, for a period of 66 days/batch of students. The requested grant shall be used to cover tuition fees; uniforms and basic kitchen tools(knife set, kitchen clogs,hairnets etc.); transportation allowance and other project management expenses. The screening of project beneficiaries shall be conducted by the Rotary Club of Sto. Domingo as well as the monitoring of the performance of each participant to ensure completion of the program. The project will run from September 2018 to end of June of 2019. A graduation for each batch shall be made, and monitoring of program graduates shall be done by both the Rotary Club of Sto. Domingo and the Culinary Foundation, Inc.To date, graduates of the "Cooking for Life" program are employed as chef or cooking staff in both local and international food industry. Presently, screening of beneficiaries is on-going. Primary Host Partner District: 3780 Rotary Club of: Sto. Domingo Primary Contact: Jose Artemon Luna Jr. Email: jojomluna@yahoo.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 Dropped This project has been "Dropped". Check the history log entries to see why it was dropped. Project listed for the 2018-19 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total District 3780 DDF 9-Aug-18 - $10,000 $10,000 Remaining Amount to Raise Additional Club Contribution (Needed) - Add a contribution $34,000 - $34,000 Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation $17,000 $10,000 $27,000 Total $71,000 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 9-Aug-18 System Entry System Entry: Creation of project page. 2-Sep-19 System Entry System Entry: Project dropped per lack of response to the carry-over notification emails.