Project Description Region: Central America Country: Costa Rica Location: Turrialba Total Budget: $33,019 Area of Focus: Community economic development Our project is Economic and Community Development Through Culinary Cuisine in Costa Rica. We aim to train young Costa Rican youth (girls and boys 16 to 20) in culinary arts. Training and mentoring by US and Costa Rican graduate students and chefs to mentor these young adults; develop and/or modify recipes using indigenous/locally grown foods; and teach nutrition components for enhanced cooking methods. Our goals are: • Teach young adults who have tourism traffic in their cafes better culinary practices. • Impart skill for young adults so they have the training to be employed in restaurants and tourist areas. • Create a cookbook of recipes by students and mentoring chefs, publish and sell to help support The Sustainability House Culinary Project. • Establish regular culinary events at CATIE (The Tropical Agricultural Research & Higher Education Center) to show case culinary skills of the young people using indigenous produce within their cuisine. • Create a scholarship program for a select student to participate in formal Costa Rican advanced culinary school. We continue partnering with the Cartago Rotary club as our host club as well as CATIE. Turrialba Hotel and Restaurant Chamber of Commerce has reached out to partner with us. We plan to add the University of North Texas and the Texas Women's University. We invite other district 5790 clubs and club members to participate. Primary Host Partner District: 4240 Rotary Club of: Cartago Primary Contact: Alberto Ayon Email: ayonchang100@yahoo.com Primary International Partner District: 5790 Rotary Club of: Arlington (Sunrise) Primary Contact: Sallie Moore Email: salliemoore@texashealth.org Project Status Paid This project is "Paid". This means the funds have been received and the project is being implemented. Project listed for the 2022-23 Rotary Year. The TRF Grant application number is #2350269.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Cartago (4240) 21-Aug-20 $400 $0 $400 Arlington (Sunrise) (5790) 21-Aug-20 $10,800 $6,337 $17,137 District 5300 DDF 7-Sep-21 - $500 $500 Escondido (5340) 8-Sep-21 $569 $569 $1,138 District 5790 DDF 9-Nov-21 - $4,400 $4,400 Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation - $9,444 $9,444 Total $33,019 DDF contributions in grey are pending approval of the corresponding district committee. 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 31-Aug-20 by Sallie Moore System Entry: Pledge of $4,354 DDF by Karen McDaniel of the Rotary Club of Denton Rotary Club, District 5790. 31-Aug-20 by Sallie Moore System Entry: Pledge of $4,354 DDF by Karen McDaniel of the Rotary Club of Denton Rotary Club, District 5790. 18-Oct-20 by Sallie Moore System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged". 22-Feb-21 by Sallie Moore This project is proceeding. Delays have occurred due to covid. We shall be submitting the application and will change status accordingly. 7-Jul-21 by Sallie Moore System Entry: Project reverted to "Published". 7-Sep-21 by Mark Mariscal System Entry: Pledge of $500 DDF by Mark Mariscal of the Rotary Club of Altadena, District 5300. 9-Nov-21 by Sallie Moore System Entry: Pledge of $4,400 DDF by Scott Hendrix of the Rotary Club of Arlington, District 5790. 16-Mar-22 by Sallie Moore Work on the Costa Rica culinary project resumes with a meeting this Thursday to hammer out and finalize details regarding completing and submitting the Community Assessment. As part of this we will be determining the dates and hosting locations for interviewing community beneficiaries and stakeholders. I have reached out to Vanessa Vegas to ensure the plan we develop is consistent with other successful Community Assessment. That meeting is scheduled for March 21st. I shall provide a more complete update after our meeting this Thursday and next Monday. 18-Aug-22 by Sallie Moore The Community Assessment was completed in June 2022. Members of the Cartago, Arlington Sunrise and Richardson rotary as well as members of CATIE met with representatives from four communities: Gayabo, Mojellones, Santa Cruz and Sitio Mata. The culinary project was well received and communities provided input/suggestions to strengthen the project. The Community Assessment will be included in the application, which is forth coming. 12-Dec-22 by Sallie Moore Our project is active. The MOU drafted and application in work. 3-May-23 by Sallie Moore System Entry: Application Sent to The Rotary Foundation through Member Access. 2-Aug-23 by Sallie Moore System Entry: Application approved by The Rotary Foundation. 5-Dec-23 by Sallie Moore System Entry: Payment has been issued by The Rotary Foundation. 19-Sep-24 by Sallie Moore In April 2024, special training and meetings were conducted with the participants to ensure they had skills and plans for conducting training in their communities. Community training has been done with more than 4 sessions being done. In August 2024, several of the participants created a meal for dignitaries of CATIE University and local community. 2-Jul-25 by Sallie Moore A final report was submitted to Rotary International. All funds have been spent. Going forward, our partner - CATIE - is dedicating space for providing culinary training locally. The plan is to conduct 2-3 multi-day culinary training sessions a year in this location. Focus will be on the initial cadre of participants so they can, in turn, provide training to others in the community. The next session is scheduled for the third week in July.