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Rotary Club: El Camino Real (Oceanside) Project Title: Operation Hope Shelter NC 1. Describe the project. What was done, when and where did project activities take place? Our club provided hot nutritious meals once a month to families experiencing food insecurities in a local sheltered for unhoused families and women. Operation Hope Shelter North County will benefit with nutritious meals, volunteers to deliver and serve the meals. Members are involved in planning, ordering, delivering and serving meals to the families. Each month we provided a meal to a minimum of 25 guests at the homeless shelter, including men, women and children. 2. How many people benefited from this project? a minimum of 300 individuals (25 each month for 12 months) 3. Who were the beneficiaries, how were they impacted by this project, and what humanitarian need was met? Guests at Operation Hope are individuals and families with children who were homeless and have agreed to join the 3-month Operation Hope program. While at the shelter they are assisted with finding more permanent housing and job options. Children are cared for or taken to school, while their parent(s) find employment and make a plan to support themselves. Guests work towards self-sufficiency each day. Our support in providing dinner to them, allows them to focus on their plan instead of meal prep. Without our meal support, the limited staff and funding at Operation Hope, meals would be basic with little variety, and time would be taken away from the staff to help the adults with their self-sufficiency plan. The guests tell us we are supporting their goals by providing them with a meal. 4. How many Rotarians participated in the project? 13: The coordination of the schedule and was managed by one lead Rotarian in our club , but each month a different Rotarian delivered the meals to the shelter. 5. What did they do? Please give at least two examples, not including financial support provided to the project. Each month on the assigned day, a communication with the shelter manager was made to determine the number guests at the shelter, the number of meals needed and any special dietary requirements. We were able to accommodate guests with vegetarian requirements, vegan requirements, peanut allergy and lactose intolerance. Once the needs were identified each month, the Rotarian placed the order to WINCO for the food, picked it up, paid for it, delivered it hot and ready to eat, to the shelter and assisted with serving as needed. 6. If a cooperating organization was involved, what was its role? The Rotarian providing the meals worked closely with the shelter staff of Operation Hope to assist in assuring all the guests, especially the children were given a hot appropriate meal. The Salvation Army initially provided prepared meals for this endeavor but had to stop due to staffing issues. Our club then negotiated with WINCO, an employee-owned grocery store, to purchase the food. 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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