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District 7080 - Funded Projects

Welcome to the District 7080 International Service Projects site. Below are the past IS projects that were successfully completed by our District Rotary Clubs. Feel free to look up your project of interest with the search Tags noted below.

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2022 Project in Kenya - by the Rotary Club of
Sarnia Bluewaterland : Project Name - "Yombra Village Water Project, Kenya"

The project includes a bore well, water tower, removal of sediments, viruses, bacteria and harmful minerals. The water is pumped using electricity supplied from solar cells to four distribution kiosks that supply water to the community, a pre-school, and a secondary school. Plans will include future hookups for a greenhouse, individual homes, school kitchens and dormitory.

2021 Project in Egypt - by the Rotary Club of Palgrave : "Heart2Heart - Pediatric Non-Invasive Cardiac Procedures"

The proposed project concerned saving lives of infants born with congenital heart disease, and not covered by National Health Insurance in Egypt. Rotary Club of El Tahrir (RCT) in Cairo was the project host for the Rotary Global grant with many other Rotary clubs in Egypt.

Mega Medical Project to establish Breast Cancer and allied treatments and consultancy centre for the needy, with latest Medical facilities for setting up a modern, but Charitable Medical facility, in spite of various Hospitals being present! The Rotary Club of Poona Mid Town Educational and Charitable Trust duly registered with Charity commissioner will be nodal body to receive donations and to carry out this and other service projects.

Past Project in Ghana - by the Rotary Club of Montreal : Project Name - "Water and Sanitation Project in Ghana"

Water and Sanitation Project in Ghana by Rotary Club of Montreal.

This project addresses the direct sanitation needs by providing toilets, and clean water for hand-washing to almost 1200 students, teachers and office staff.

2019 Project in Honduras - by the Rotary Club of Tillsonburg : Project Name - "Honduras Microfinance Project"

HECD Phase 6 (D7080) will continue to extend benefit in three ways: 1) providing access to affordable capital for small businesses to grow, and 2) as they grow, they will need to hire more employees, therefore generating jobs, and 3) IDH will continue to provide SME-specific training ... a true and positive ripple effect within the communities of HONDURAS.

The project will bore a well, using energy from solar cells to pump the water, raise the water to a tank to provide pressure, clean the water from sediments, bacteria, viruses and harmful minerals. From there the water will be pumped by pipe to a primary school, child care centre and kiosks for pickup by residents.

The main beneficiaries are children from birth to school age. The equipment to be acquired will allow the detection and diagnosis of hearing pathologies in healthy or high-risk children up to school age, which will improve access to early diagnosis and timely treatment, thus reducing the co-morbidities that hearing loss can cause. All children born at

Penna Hospital (approximately 2,500 births per year) and those derived from other public and private health institutions in Bahia Blanca and the region (300 kilometers around) will be attended to. Penna Hospital is the only public maternity hospital that performs hearing studies.

Installing wells closer to the villages of the families needing water will help with the young girls access safe water in the Island.

2020 Project in Guatemala - by the Rotary Club of Burlington North : Project Name - "175 Latrines in Guatemala"

· This would include every family home in La Majada that is not financially capable of building their own. Cost per each latrine $450 USD.
· Each latrine consists of an enclosed toilet and a covered septic hole (see pictures).
· Construction will be the same as the previous ones we built in Los Lomas.
· The Durman pit latrines have a shelf life of 30 years
· Education and health/hygiene training is provided to the villagers as part of the project.

2020 Project in Guatemala - by the Rotary Club of Burlington : Project Name - "EL Jute Water System GG#1864564"

The goal is to provide potable water to the residents of El Jute, Guatemala.
The system will be a gravity based water from a mountain spring to serve approximately 450 people in the town.
The project will also provide training to the local water committee to maintain and sustain the project.

2019 Project in Cameroon - by the Rotary Club of Guelph : Project Name - "Global Grant GG1864242 Kumbo, Cameroon"

About 20,000 villagers folk will soon be drinking potable water and women and girls will no longer need to trek 3-4 hrs daily in search of water to supply the needs of their families for safe drinking water.

Over 2,000 school children will be introduced to personal hygiene and sanitation practices through a new WASH training program.

To provide Knysna, South Africa, a combined model preschool and hands-on teacher training center that will train teachers in early childhood schooling, basic literacy and numeracy, and provide a child friendly learning environment for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The objective of this grant is to assist three communities in improving, repairing or restoring their water sources to enhance the ability of community members to engage in economic activities.

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The objectives of this grant are twofold: 1) to strengthen the Khokana Women Awareness Society (KWAS); and 2) equip about 150 women who have been affected by the 2015 earthquakes with income-generating skills close to their homes.

To provide a new sustainable source of family income to rural families in the dry region near Chiquimula Guatemala and to improve the food security, nutrition and health of rural families through the application of an integrated and ecological gardening method.

2019 Project in India - by the Rotary Club of Guelph : Project Name - "Dindigul, India Dairy Project"

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To train 80 villagers on everything needed to raise, feed and care for a lactating dairy cow through Ghandigram Agricultural College followed by each graduate receiving their own cow. Cows will be purchased from other villagers who have received micro-loans to purchase a cow in the past. Following the training graduates will meet twice monthly at Society for Serving Humanity meetings to share experiences.

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