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Rotary Club: Anchorage Project Title: Refugee Entrepreneur Program 1. Describe the project. What was done, when and where did project activities take place? In addition to the financial contribution of 20,000.00, Anchorage Rotary volunteered at Grow North Farm during 2 events; 1)Fall 2022 - Helped winterize the Farm; and 2)Spring 2023 - Help the Farm prepare for the summer grow season 2. How many people benefited from this project? 50+ 3. Who were the beneficiaries, how were they impacted by this project, and what humanitarian need was met? Afghanistan Refugees who have been displaced and creating a new life in Alaska. Anchorage Rotary's involvement in partnership with ACLT and Grow North Farms, help these refugees become members of a new community; providing job skills and income. Many of the refugees are woman with children. 4. How many Rotarians participated in the project? 120 5. What did they do? Please give at least two examples, not including financial support provided to the project. The Club held 3 project events where Rotarians donated their time. Fall 2022 - Helped winterize the Farm by pulling weeds, and insulating the farm bed. Spring 2023 - Helped prepare the farm for the planting season. Rotarians moved soil, cleaned up the farm, and built planting wagons. May 2023 - Held a lunch at the Farm providing a personal connection between Rotarians, partnering groups, and the refugees who the project assists. 6. If a cooperating organization was involved, what was its role? Anchorage Community Land Trust - Landowners and backbone for the Farm Grow North Farm - Organizer and executor of the program 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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