Project Description Country: USA Location: Irvine Total Budget: $3,750 Areas of Focus: Water, sanitation and hygiene, Basic education and literacy, Community economic development Activity Type: Community Development: General Summary: Hygiene kits will be provided to high school students who are homeless and/or in the foster care system Irvine Unified School District has several hundred homeless and foster students who are currently managed by the school district's health and mental wellness department. The district does the best they can to provide resources to support these students who face challenges having basic supplies to attend school. Many are currently shuttled in the foster care system or still live with parents who do not have steady housing arrangements. This projects supports homeless high school students and students in the foster care system who do not have parental support to buy the essentials they need to succeed in school. Supplies for hygiene will be supplied to students, which include a carrying case for personal hygiene, hair brushes, soap, toothpaste, a pocket mirror, body soap and other essentials necessary to have good grooming presentation as a student. Rotarians will pack the supplies and prepare them for distribution to students with notes of encouragement. Project Contact Person District: 5320 Rotary Club of: Irvine Primary Contact: Anabella Bonfa Email: abonfa@w-wlaw.com Project Status Dropped This project has been "Dropped". Check the history log entries to see why it was dropped. Project listed for the 2024-25 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Irvine (5320) 11-Jun-24 $1,875 $1,875 $3,750 Total $1,875 $1,875 $3,750 DDF contributions in grey are pending approval of the corresponding district committee.

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [11-Jun-24] 6/24 Foster Children Supplies project request [4-Aug-24] Note to file - DDF adjustment

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History Log Entries 11-Jun-24 by Anabella Bonfa System Entry: Creation of project page. 25-Jun-24 by Gillian Bradshaw System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 25-Jun-24 System Entry System Entry: Project signed by Audrey Ishibashi. 25-Jun-24 by Anabella Bonfa System Entry: Project signed by Anabella Bonfa. 25-Aug-24 by Gillian Bradshaw System Entry: Project dropped by Gillian Bradshaw. Reason for dropping: When the DDF amounts were revised and reduced, the club decided not to use DDF for this project but allocate it to their other ones.