At our luncheon on Thursday January 18, 2018, Manish Mehta presented a summery of Rotary Club of Ann Arbor North's International Project's.
Manish was glad that our Club’s Project Dignity partners in India have completed construction and handover of almost 400 rural Toilets which brings our total so far since 2012 to 1020 units, which means that at least a 1000 women are able to sustain their families with good health, and raise their living standards with new job-training, education and literacy initiatives.
Photos from January 14, 2018 celebration of 400 toilets .
Congratulations to our Project Dignity partners Rotary Club of Calcutta-Midtown (RCCM) and NGO partner Sri Ramakrishna Ashram Nimpith (SRAN) for exceeding the goal of 320 Toilets on Global Grant #1526428! You have stretched project resources and leveraged to award 400 total new rural in-home Toilets that will help empower the families of many women mud-hut dwellers in the ecologically threatened Sundarbans area into sustainable vocations while promoting health, safety and literacy.
Big Thanks to the members of my Ann Arbor North Rotary Club as well as the supporting clubs - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor West, Chelsea, Milan, Novi, Saline, Ypsilanti and our Rotary D6380 and International Foundations- Sumi Agrawal of Inner Wheel Club of Calcutta-Midtown got us started on this 8-year collaboration- Thanks for making his happen!
Our count so far...1020 Toilets!
400 (in 2016-18) + 120 (in 2011-12) + 500 (in 2016-18 on Global Grant with 39 Kolkata Clubs)
Written by Manish Mehta
