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Rotary Club: E-Club of San Diego Global Project Title: Indigenous COVID 19 Emergency 1. Describe the project. What was done, when and where did project activities take place? The project took place in the Indigenous rainforest territories of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Indigenous populations living there are extremely vulnerable to disease due to long existing inequity, exclusion from access to public service as well as geographic isolation. Elders are dying who are the guardians of thousands of years of ancestral knowledge about the Amazon rainforest animals and medicinal plants. Re Covid 19 there is lack of testing, medicine and basic supplies. The Indians there are reliant on the rivers for food and water which have become polluted because of oil spills and careless habits by international companies. CEFAS (Center for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science) is an organization in the Ecuadorean Amazon basin that we will worked with. They are based in Morona Santiago province and are already working with the Shuar tribes living at risk. We funded CEFAS to produce educational preventative material about COVID 19 in Achuar as well as Spanish, and distribute desperately needed medical supplies related to Covid 19: masks, alcohol, soap, cleaning supplies, food, water filters, and medicine. $2000 CEFAS performed the above as well as outreach to the population about general health. The goal is to stabilize this indigenous population from the threat of extinction because of COVID 19 so: 1) They can thrive in their society by receiving pandemic preventative 2) The world can continue to benefit from its valuable knowledge of the local medicinal plants and traditions as well as the Amazon as the life force of our planet plants 2. How many people benefited from this project? 200 families 3. Who were the beneficiaries, how were they impacted by this project, and what humanitarian need was met? Remote indigenous populations, especially elders , in Ecuador are extremely vulnerable to disease due to inequity by public service and geographic isolation, as well as invasion deseases by land grabbers and personnel of the oil industry. Oil companies pollution of land and water supplies was bad but on top of that when so with COVID 19 many of them are dying and also because of the threats to their land and water supplies the oil companies have polluted. There is a lack of basic health education. The target people in this grant were supplied basic needs for combatting COVID 19, 4. How many Rotarians participated in the project? 2 5. What did they do? Please give at least two examples, not including financial support provided to the project. We gave CEFAS 1) the means to transport the public health materials to the villages and 2) money for needed supplies to give to the Indigenous population Our EClub supplied the extra $50 for the supplies We also made up a ZOOM VIDEO of the project which can not be uploaded (not able to be a PDF file) but will be sent along to the District for viewing and keeping. 6. If a cooperating organization was involved, what was its role? CEFAS (Center for Environment, fisheries and Aquaculture). They brought the materials by small plane and hiked into and distributed to the small tribes speaking Shuar in Moraga Santiago in Ecuador. CEFAS gives public education re how to stay healthy by wearing masks and hand washing 7. Income
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District must retain receipts of all expenditures for at least five years. Please scan and upload to the project's "Documents" tab all invoices (be sure they are marked "paid"), receipts and/or copies of checks for the full amount of the project budget. By signing this report, I confirm that to the best of my knowledge these District Grant funds were spent only for eligible items in accordance with Trustee-approved guidelines, and that all of the information contained herein is true and accurate. I also understand that all photographs submitted in connection with this report will become the property of RI and will not be returned. I warrant that I own all rights in the photographs, including copyright, and herby grant RI and TRF a royalty free irrevocable license to use the photographs now or at any time in the future, throughout the world in any manner it so chooses and in any medium now known or later developed. This includes the right to modify the photograph(s) as necessary in RI's sole discretion. This also includes, without limitation, use on or in the web site, magazines, brochures, pamphlets, exhibitions and any other promotional materials of RI and TRF.
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