P-1680

Schools Solar Panel/Lanterns

Description

Financing

Documents

Photos

History Logs

Project Description

Country: Honduras

Location: Lancetilla Botanical Gard

Total Budget: $7,950

Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy

Activity Type: Education: General

Summary: Solar panel installation in three schools in the Tela Hondursa area and solar lanternsfor families of students


The purpose of this project is to provide electrical power via solar pannels to three schools that are located within the Lancetilla Botanical gardens near Tela, Honduras.We also want to provide solar lanterns to familes of students of the three schools. The area of Tela lacks grid electricity which makes it difficult for the students to be educated and for their families to complete tasks when it is dark out.

The Josefa Lastiri Morazan school is located adjacent to the Botanical garden. The school serves 60 K-5 students during the week and 45 6-9 students on weekends. The Esduela Lempira school is about a 30 minute hike from the botanical garden and serves 45 K-5 students. The third school is Escuela Jose Trinidad Cabanas located about a 25 minute walk from the gardens and also serves about 45 K-5 students. None of these schools have electricity and so rely on natural light. During the rainy season natural light is not bright and so the students can only go to school during the brightest part of the day. These students have the same situation in their homes which makes it almost impossible to do nightly homework. Many of these students travel long distances to attend school and often have to walk to and from school in the dark. This provides the potential for safety concerns to the students without proper lighting. Also, access to solar power will enable these schools to eventually have the ability to have computers,tablets and other electronic dependent educational devices.This will give the schools a foundation for future development of educational programs and collaborations between schools within the area, the country and the world.

The Greeley Centennial, Greeley after Hours and Craig Rotary are collaborating this year to build an addition to the Josefa Lastiri Morazan school. This project was initiated by the Dos Rios Elementry school in Evans Co that has been doing projects with the schools since 2013. A teacher at Dos Rios grew up in the Tela area and still has family there. Agroup of teachers and Rotarians are heading down the Tela in late June to work on the addition and make contact with local Rotary clubs in Tela.

This Solar project will be a collabortion between the Craig Rotary, Greeley After Hours and Dos Rios school. We have plans of going down either during the schools Thanksgiving or Spring breaks and it trip will be tied in with the Greeley Centennial project of suppling furniture and equipment to the schools. Members of the Dos Rios school and all three Rotary clubs will work on both projects during this trip.

Project Contact Person

District: 5440

Rotary Club of: Craig (Moffat County)

Primary Contact: Randall Looper

Email: elkruninn@yahoo.com

Project Status

Completed
This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners.

Project listed for the 2017-18 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Craig (Moffat County) (5440)

30-May-17

$4,225

$3,725

$7,950

Total

$4,225

$3,725

$7,950

Project Supporting Documents


[30-May-17]
Budget


[2-Jun-18]
Honduras final report


[2-Jun-18]
Honduras Solar receipts


[2-Jun-18]
Honduras Solar Receipts


[12-Jun-18]
Wire Transfer

 

Project Photos

History Log Entries

30-May-17

by Jim Epstein

Sent welcome message

30-May-17

by Randall Looper

System Entry: Creation of project page.

30-May-17

by Randall Looper

System Entry: Project sent for club signatures.

30-May-17

by Randall Looper

System Entry: Project signed by Randy Looper.

31-May-17

System Entry

System Entry: Project signed by Len Browning.

31-May-17

System Entry

System Entry: Project signed by Len Browning.

31-May-17

System Entry

System Entry: Project signed by Lief Albaugh.

7-Jun-17

by Jim Epstein

Approved

6-Jul-17

by Jim Epstein

System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee.

17-Jul-17

by Bill Kehl

System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer.

11-Oct-17

by Randall Looper

We are in the process of determining if providing electricity to the three schools is possible and what is the cost vs. installing Solar pannels at each school.

27-Oct-17

by Randall Looper

System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded.

4-Jan-18

by Randall Looper

We are waiting till a trip to the schools in February to evaluate contacts to do the installation of solar pannels.

26-Jun-18

by Randall Looper

System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.

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