Needful Provisions Inc. announced it reached in required $10,000 funding match needed for a global Rotary grant for its biochar project in El Salvador.
Funding came from the Dolores Rotary Club, Rotary Club of Durango Daybreak, Aspen, a private donor and Aspen Rotary Club Foundation.
The project training team is also complete with the addition of Odette Milla, an expert in use of biochar, bio-activated with soil microbes, for a soil additive to increase farm soil fertility and crop yields long-term for low cost.
Project team leader Luis Albanes is an electrical mechanical engineer and project organizer. The project will provide 25 or more El Salvadoran smallholder farmers with mobile biochar kilns to make and bio-activate their own biochar for use as a soil additive, with the goal of improving crop yields, well-being and food security in El Salvador.
Dolores Rotary Club plans to use this global grant project as the foundation for a $2 million Rotary Scale grant application with a $2 million match from the Inter-American Foundation, and a $2 million in-kind technologies donation from NPI. Funds would be used to start and operate a Global Barter Trade Center in El Salvador.
