FINAL REPORT Global Grant 25462 - WATER DISTRIBUTION PROJECT for Ndandini/Kyaithani
I have been posting updates on the www.ndandini.blogspot.com website for everyone to follow for the past months as we completed our additional fundraising and then finished the last tasks of the project in Ndandini. I hope that everyone has been reviewing the blog. If you have not read it recently, please take a minute. There are some really great photos there showing how the water is benefiting the villagers! Thanks to you all!!
Water tanks are installed now at all 6 schools and one additional water tank at the community garden to provide water for the drip-irrigation greenhouse. The driver is making reqular deliveries of water from the well to these tanks and we have received email letters from the teachers and students telling us how much the villagers appreciate the water and the difference it is making in their lives. Check out some of the letters on our scholarship website www.ndandini-scholarashipfund.blogspot.com .
We did encounter one problem just as we were completing the project. The pump on the water bowser (that is used to fill the bowser and to pump from the bowser into the tanks at the schools) failed. In order to be able to keep delivering water, we decided that we would buy a second pump, replace the failed pump with it, and then proceed to try to get it repaired under warranty. The pump has now been repaired (under warranty) and so we now have a spare in case that happens again.
The Final Report for the Global Grant has been submitted to The Rotary Foundation (on time and as required).
The total final cost of the project was $87,312.07 .
$25,550 TRF Global Grant
$12,000 RC Sunshine Coast-Sechelt BC Canada
$10,000 District 5040 DDF
$7,500 RC Gibsons BC Canada
$6,850 RC Nanaimo North BC Canada
$6,000 RC Saint John NB Canada
$4,500 RC Moorestown NJ USA
$3,315 Non-Rotarian individuals
$3,000 RC Aalborg Stigsborg Denmark
$4,200 RC's Terrassa, Palencia and Vitoria Spain
$2,000 RC Belleville Ontario Canada
$500 RC Florence Oregon USA
$500 RC Beverly Hills California USA
$250 RC Ghaziabad India
$148 Rotarian individuals
$100 RC Nairobi Industrial Area
Again, thank you everyone. We could not have done it with you.
We will be visiting Ndandini on Wednesday September 19th. If anyone is interested in coming out to the village with us to see the work that we have accomplished and to meet some of the villagers, let me know. If you have any questions about that or need help with your travel arrangements, let me know that too.
If you have any questions about the project, as always, you are welcome to send me an email.
We are thinking ahead and have already submitted an application to CRCID (Canadian Rotary Collaberation for International Development) for a grant for another project. We will need 9 Canadian Rotary Club partners who are willing to contribute $6000 and who will commit to get another $6000 in District matching funding. This will be a 2013/14 project with anticipated start date of July 1, 2013.
The fantastic news is that for your $6000 contribution it will help to make a $370,000 project a reality. How's that for leveraging your donation! I hope we can count on our Canadian partners to join us in this new initiative. Here's the project in a nutshell:
There are 6 schools in the Ndandini area (where we have just installed the water tanks). One has a drip-irrigation greenhouse that was donated by St. Hilda's Anglican church (Sechelt BC). This project will install a greenhouse at the other 5 schools so that they too can grow food for their school meal program. There is one greenhouse at the community garden donated by a non-Rotarian. This project will install 3 more to provide more food for the villagers and generate revenue to support the operation of the well. tractor and bowser. The project will install new, eco-friendly latrine blocks at each of the 6 schools. The project will install solar lighting at each of the schools and provide each primary school with a laptop and a big screen TV. It will also expand the solar system at the high school so that all classrooms have light and implement a computer lab (including appropriate software and instruction for the teachers).
Most of you know how the leveraging works for matching District DDF and TRF Global Grants. This adds another level on top with CRCID matching 80% of our club donations, district grants and TRF grants. Fantastic! This project is almost twice the value of everything we have done for the village since 2007!
Please let me know that you are interested in getting involved with this and i will add you to my list for updates regarding this exciting potential project.
Thanks again for your support.
Keep watching the blog. I will be updating it with photos from our trip to the village in September.
For anyone who did not watch the 13 minute youtube summary of our work in Ndandini since 2007 that we have been able to accomplish because of your support, here is the link again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3wowjcweLk
Yours in Rotary
Terry
Director - Projects
Sunshine Coast-Sechelt RC
cell 1 (604) 740-6244
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