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 $165,495 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 Berkeley (5160) 15-Apr-26 $1,500 $3,000 $4,500 Louisville (6710) 15-Apr-26 $1 $3,000 $3,001 Sunnyvale (5170) 15-Apr-26 $1 $1,500 $1,501 Hamburg (1890) 15-Apr-26 $3,000 $4,500 $7,500 San Francisco Evening (5150) 15-Apr-26 $1 $1,682 $1,683 Los Altos (5170) 15-Apr-26 $1 $2,800 $2,801 Oakland (5170) 15-Apr-26 $1 $24,241 $24,242 Guatemala del Este (4250) 16-Apr-26 $4,000 $1,500 $5,500 Remaining Amount to Raise Additional Club Contribution (Needed) - Add a contribution $165,495 - $165,495 Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation - $33,777 $33,777 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. [Deleted on 15-Apr-26] 15-Apr-26 by Peter Sherris System Entry: Pledge of $1,500 with $3,000 DDF by GRIER GRAF of the Rotary Club of Berkeley, District 5160. 15-Apr-26 by Peter Sherris System Entry: Pledge of $1 with $3,000 DDF by Rick Harned of the Rotary Club of Louisville, District 6710. 15-Apr-26 by Peter Sherris System Entry: Pledge of $1 with $1,500 DDF by Bruce Paton of the Rotary Club of Sunnyvale, District 5170. 15-Apr-26 by Peter Sherris System Entry: Pledge of $1,000 with $4,500 DDF by Michael Bonsteman of the Rotary Club of Hamburg, District 1890. [Updated to $3,000 with $4,500 DDF on 15-Apr-26] 15-Apr-26 by Peter Sherris System Entry: Pledge of $1 with $1,682 DDF by Carol of the Rotary Club of San Francisco Evening, District 5150. 15-Apr-26 by Peter Sherris System Entry: Pledge of $1 with $2,800 DDF by Karen Berner of the Rotary Club of Los Altos, District 5170. 15-Apr-26 by Peter Sherris System Entry: Pledge of $1 with $24,241 DDF by Peter Sherris of the Rotary Club of Oakland, District 5170. 16-Apr-26 by Peter Sherris System Entry: Pledge of $4,000 with $1,500 DDF by Juan Jose Moralex of the Rotary Club of Guatemala del Este, District 4250.