Project Description Region: South-East Asia Country: India Location: Cochin Total Budget: $66,750 Area of Focus: Water, sanitation and hygiene The full project name is Happy Village Project-Provision of Toilets at Perambulam. The project would build toilets or toilet blocks over an 18 month period for 80 to 100 homes on the island of Perambulam, located on a lake near Cochin, India. Members of the Rotary Club of Cochin have identified Perambulum as an area in which sanitation facilities are sorely lacking and have established an active RCC on the island to help address the problem. Providing clean water and preventing disease are consistent with Rotary's areas of focus and we would look forward to partnering with The Rotary Club of Cochin to achieve project goals. We anticipate that Rotary Club of La Jolla members, in addition to contributing funds and reviewing project plans, will have an opportunity to visit the site and assist where needed. Primary Host Partner District: 3201 Rotary Club of: Cochin Primary Contact: Susheel Aswani Email: aswani.susheel@gmail.com Primary International Partner District: 5340 Rotary Club of: La Jolla Primary Contact: Cindy Goodman Email: cynthiagoodman4@gmail.com Project Status Completed This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by The Rotary Foundation. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners. Project listed for the 2016-17 Rotary Year. The TRF Grant application number is #1744657.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Cochin (3201) 15-Jul-16 $7,000 $15,000 $22,000 La Jolla (5340) 28-Aug-16 $7,500 $7,500 $15,000 Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation $7,250 $22,500 $29,750 Total $66,750 Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.

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History Log Entries 15-Jul-16 by Janice Kurth System Entry: Creation of project page. 15-Jul-16 by Janice Kurth System Entry: Pledge of $11,000 with $10,000 DDF by Susheel Aswani of the Rotary Club of Cochin, District 3201. 17-Jul-16 by Cindy Goodman System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged". 22-Aug-16 by Janice Kurth This grant was discussed in the Foundation Committee today. It was not approved because the cash pledge from La Jolla was $5000 with a request for $10000 DDF. Our grant policies require a 1:1 match. Please revise this proposal and resubmit. 28-Aug-16 by Janice Kurth System Entry: Pledge of $7,500 with $7,500 DDF by Cindy Goodman of the Rotary Club of La Jolla, District 5340. 21-Sep-16 by Marta Knight District 5340 Rotary Foundation Committee approved $7,500, DDF match for this Grant at the 9.19.16, meeting, Funds will be sent after approval from The Rotary Foundation. 2-Jan-17 by Susheel Aswani Project has been approved by The Rotary Foundation. Both the Presidents have provided the Legal undertaking. The host club, Cochin has opened a bank account and has mentioned the authorized signatories on the Grants Centre of the RI Site. Awaiting confirmation from TRF on the next steps. 16-Apr-17 by VR Nair Gobal Grant Project # GG 1744657has been authorised and approved. The funds from Rotary Intl has been received into the Project Bank Account on 11 April 2017. Project Implementation construction commenced. 16-Apr-17 by VR Nair System Entry: Application Sent to The Rotary Foundation through Member Access. 16-Apr-17 by VR Nair System Entry: Application approved by The Rotary Foundation. 16-Apr-17 by VR Nair System Entry: Payment has been issued by The Rotary Foundation. 2-Nov-17 by Susheel Aswani Over 60 of the 80 toilets have been completed. The project is on track and is expected to be completed by the first week of January 2018. Once the 80 toilets are built, it will be ensured that a water source is available for each of the toilets and if after provision of water tanks and connections there are surplus funds,these would be used for the construction of additional toilets. 16-May-18 by Susheel Aswani The project has been completed. A total of 87 toilets have been constructed. The additional 7 toilets have been made possible with the efficiencies in project management and negotiation with vendors. The final report of the project has been submitted and authorized at our end as Host club members. It needs to be authorized by the members of the International Partner Club ie La Jolla. We are on track to submit the grant reports to the Rotary South Asia Office in Delhi. 16-May-18 by Susheel Aswani System Entry: Final Report sent to The Rotary Foundation. 2-Sep-18 by Susheel Aswani We have received some points of clarification from the Rotary South Asia office. We have prepared a detailed response which is expected to be submitted with supportings later this week. We hope this will take care of the reporting clarifications. Will mark a copy of the reply to the project contact points as well. 18-Nov-18 by VR Nair Final Report for the Global Grant was submitted. Some queries raised during the review have been answered. Now awaiting further response from RI Grants 16-Dec-18 by VR Nair The Final Report has now been accepted as complete and the Global Grant Project GG1754657 has now been closef 16-Dec-18 by VR Nair G G Project treated as 'Closed' as on 13th Dec 2018 17-Dec-18 by Janice Kurth System Entry: Final Report approved by The Rotary Foundation.