Project Description Region: Other Country: USA Location: Netherlands Total Budget: $41,000 Area of Focus: Peacebuilding and conflict prevention Young women from Central Asia working in the water sector lack opportunities for high-quality education within the region. They are smart, professional, dedicated, and want to do more for the region. They have experience working in the water sector for many years and they speak sufficient English. However, they are also young women - they are mothers with little kids and therefore they can't leave for long to study masters or to have a longer training outside of the region or places where they live. This is their strong limitation, which does not allow them to advance in their careers through seeking graduate degrees and contribute more to solving water issues in the region. This grant will support their participation in IHE's Water Cooperation, Conflict and Diplomacy short course for 2 weeks. IHE Professors Aaron Wolf, Jenniver Shering, Bota Sharipova (a Rotary Alumni from Kazakhstan) and other strong experts are teaching in this course.https://www.un-ihe.org/courses/on-campus/water-conflict-cooperation-and-diplomacy. It is proposed this grant support a Vocational Training Team composed of 6 such young professionals from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and a Team Leader from Kazakhstan. Primary Host Partner District: 1600 Rotary Club of: Rijswijk-Ypenburg Primary Contact: Henk Jap Kloosterman Email: henkjaapkloosterman@gmail.com Primary International Partner District: 5340 Rotary Club of: La Jolla Golden Triangle Primary Contact: Stephen Robert Brown Email: stephenrbrown@att.net Project Status Dropped This project has been "Dropped". Check the history log entries to see why it was dropped. Project listed for the 2025-26 Rotary Year. The TRF Grant application number is #2581086.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total There are no contributions yet for this project. Remaining Amount to Raise Additional Club Contribution (Needed) - Add a contribution $41,000 - $41,000 Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation - $0 $0 Total $41,000 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 22-Jun-25 by Stephen Robert Brown System Entry: Creation of project page. 3-Jul-25 by Stephen Robert Brown System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged". 8-Jul-25 by Philippe Lamoise System Entry: Project dropped by Philippe Lamoise. Reason for dropping: Requested by Janice Kurth: PDG Steve Brown requested this drop as he will undertake other funding outside of TRF.