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Ending Child Mortality
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$81,000
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This project is hosted in a Future Vision Pilot District and is
in the process of being moved to the Global Grants Website.
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Like other children in the world, children of Shauri Yako, have a right to live to celebrate their fifth birth day and beyond. This is attainable by ensuring these children have: enough to eat, clean water to drink, access to basic medicines and vaccines, access to simple solutions like treated nets and re-hydration salts . The product will be healthy educated children, who as adults will be are able to rise and support a family and dream of a happy future for their children. Thus “Make Dreams Real” for once underprivileged children of Shauri Yako by giving them a chance to live the kind of life the privileged take for granted. A life with enough food, clean water, and access to health care and education. These are means of reducing child mortality and will “Make Dreams Real”, by making sure more children have a chance to go to school, because it’s through education that the deadly cycle can be broken. A life that will extend beyond their fifth year.
The slum like any other area a long the shores of Lake Victoria is hard hit by HIV/AIDS pandemic, combined with malaria has impacted negatively on economy of the slum. Malaria incidences are high in this slum due to poor solid and liquid waste management which has favored the breeding of mosquitoes. |
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Primary Host Partner in the Project Country
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Primary International Partner Outside the Project Country
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 We are looking for a Club partner. Click here to pledge support for this project.
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Proposed Financing
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Primary Host Sponsor Rotary Club/District |
Rotary Club of Homa Bay | $1,000 |
Additional Rotary Clubs/Districts |
International Sponsor Club | $53,000 |
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Amount requested from the Rotary Foundation
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$27,000
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Total
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$81,000
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Status and Progress Information
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Dropped
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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.
<12-Aug-09> System Entry
Creation of project page.
<13-Aug-09> by Rabuor David
Shauri Yako peri-urban (informal) settlement is the most conspicuous and oldest informal settlement within Homa Bay Municipality. The growth of the slum has been both rapid and unplanned resulting in desperate living standards for majority of inhabitants. It’s among the worst polluted and disease ridden habitats within Homa Bay municipality. Even section which happens to be served by sewerage line, suffers from permanent sewage discharge polluting surface waters and seepage from sewers, septic tanks and pit toilets pollute few shallow wells in existence and lake water as well. Due to poor sanitation facilities and lack of drainage, human faeces and pools of stagnant water are found adjacent to family households. Such living conditions are particularly serious for young children resulting in high incidences of diarrhoea, typhoid, cholera, malaria, fungal infections, scabies, ring-worms and chest infections. Poor knowledge of good hygiene practices accentuates the problem resulting in high incidences of infant mortality and morbidity.
<18-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.
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