New District 6650 Global Grant: Water Project for Maharashtra, India

 

 

PDG Meena Patel has brought us a request from OHOLI in Taluka Wai, District Satara, Maharashtra state of India.

 

This village is deprived of nearly-every natural resource required to meet and maintain basic standards of life. Every day, women spend half of their working hours collecting water over long distances and climbing lots of steps (more than 5 to 6 trips a day for their family). After age 35, they are exhausted and unable to continue this work. This has led to cases of socially unfavorable family polygamy with the sole objective for someone to gather water.

 

This Rotary Global Grant would provide for digging a production water well, installation of pumping machinery, and laying a pipeline to transport water to a stand post.

 

Our District has dedicated $10K toward the grant which along with $6K from District 3132 and $1K from the local Rotary club. This will be matched by The Rotary Foundation providing $35K for the project.

 

Please visit our website at www.Rotary6650.org  to view all of this past year’s local and global projects and learn more about The Rotary Foundation.

 

 

Peter Apicella, DRFC, Peter@salemrad.com 330-207-0500 (cell)