D-1484    India - Santiniketan Heart to Heart $170,000 This project is hosted in a Future Vision Pilot District and is in the process of being moved to the Global Grants Website. Non-Pilots Districts should stay in the current section of this website and work with Non-Pilot Districts only. You can search for projects without this warning message. Pilot Districts should go to the Global Grants Section and work with Pilot Districts only. This section is a new section of this website with projects only from Pilot Districts. The Grant budget will be used for surgeries to the children of the economically weaker groups who are born with congenital heart defect. Part of the budget will be used for purchase of artificial valves, pre and post operative care of the patients. The surgery will take place in specialized hospitals in Kolkata, Durgapur and Shillong but the identification of the children will be done from the whole of R.I.Dist.3240. The project will benefit about 100 children who are born with defective heart and who are from economically weak background. Primary Host Partner in the Project Country Club: Tagore Land District: 3240 Primary Contact: Ashok K Agarwal Email: aramg2003@hotmail.com Check all projects from: [District 3240] [Tagore Land Rotary Club] [Ashok K Agarwal] Primary International Partner Outside the Project Country We are looking for a Club partner. Click here to pledge support for this project. Proposed Financing Primary Host Sponsor Rotary Club/District Rotary Club of Tagore Land $5,000 District 3240 DDF $20,000 Additional Rotary Clubs/Districts International Sponsor Club $81,667 Amount requested from the Rotary Foundation $63,333 Total $170,000 Status and Progress Information Dropped This project has been dropped. This is probably due to the loss of contact with the Coordinating Club. Project listed for the 2010-11 Rotary Year. Unless they’re cured with the help of surgery, these children grow up very weak and die premature death. We can prevent this by timely intervention and corrective surgery. Normally any heart surgery requires a lot of money and most of the people from low income back ground cannot afford this. We propose to take up the case of hundred such children from the whole of our district and get them operated in specialized hospitals in Kolkata and other places at a subsidized rate. We can give these children a normal healthy and meaningful life to live after the surgery. I have already talked with one of the doctors of specialized Hospitals in Kolkata who is involved in such work and he has readily agreed to help our cause by getting the surgery done at the rate of 50% of the normal rate which would come to around $1500 instead of normal rate of $3000. <27-Apr-09> System Entry Creation of project page. <3-Jun-10> System Entry Project carried over to the 2010-11 Rotary Year. <16-Jun-11> System Entry Project dropped because it is hosted by a Future Vision Pilot District.