District Rotary Foundation

Global Grant APPROVED – Water Project for Maharashtra, India: Past District Governor Meena Patel 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, the women 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 will 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 has been matched by The Rotary Foundation providing nearly $35K for the project.

 

Local District Grant Funds:  Nearly $50,000 in funds have been distributed to our Clubs for local project. These monies will provide support for:

 

• Book/Dictionary/Thesaurus Projects from Dalton, Newcomerstown, Niles, Salem, Struthers, Wooster. STEM program support from East Canton. Scholarships for Local Students in Hubbard. RYLA scholarships from Louisville. “Get Connected Initiative and Literacy with Technology” support from Wooster. 

 

• Community park trail from Alliance. Park septic system from Carrollton. Park concession/restroom from Kinsman. Lincoln Park Pavilion restoration from Massillon. Rotary Pavilion restoration in Block Park from Minerva. Park support from Niles. Park restoration with landscaping/lighting from Poland. Park signage from Rittman. Wick Park Pavilion renovation from Youngstown.

 

• Habitat for Humanity support from Boardman. “Operation Save a Life” smoke detectors from Canton. Police K-9 unit support from Canfield. Police cameras for Dennison. Attractive trash containers for downtown East Palestine. Life-saving vests for paramedics in Jackson Township. Community kitchen toiletry drive from Struthers. Community announcement sign from Sugarcreek.

 

• “Operation Warm” coats for children from Dover. Support for needy families in Niles. “Forming YOUth” healthy choice/leadership education from North Canton.

 

• Third-world mission eye exams from Canton South. Honduras biomedical engineering from Orrville.

 

Visit our website at http://Rotary6650.org to read more and view pictures of current and past projects.

 

Military Grant - UPDATE:  There has been a lot of activity on the Pegasus Project to assist Military and First Responders. More will be shared as this project comes to fruition. If you would like to help please contact PDG Meena Patel (durdarshan19@gmail.com ) or PDG Phil Mariola (philmariola22@gmail.com ).

 

Have a Global Grant Project in Mind?  If you or your club has a Global Grant projects in mind, please let me know. Visit our website at http://Rotary6650.org to find out more.

 

Thank you all for your support of the Foundation.

 

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