D-1851    India - Kolkata Prayaas A health initiative $25,000 Kolkata and its added suburbs are having migrant population living at less than $1/per day. They do not have access to state health servics or medical insurance and often keep on living withdiseases s they cannot afford treatment. Project Prayaas is an initiative to bridge this gap and provide free consultation and medicines to the marginalised poor through our mobile hospital . The grant funds will be utlised to procure generic medicines like iron, calcium, antimalarials,antibiotics,painkillers immunisation vccines for babies and expectant mothers. We plan to educate the public in preventive health through street play,talk and education pamplets. This initiative will help decrease the high maternal and infant mortality rate and willbenefit health of 200000 people. Primary Host Partner in the Project Country Club: Salt Lake Metropolitan Kolkata District: 3291 Primary Contact: Dr Aruna Tantia Email: arunatantia@gmail.com Check all projects from: [District 3291] [Salt Lake Metropolitan Kolkata Rotary Club] [Dr Aruna Tantia] 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 Salt Lake Metropolitan Kolkata $1,000 District 3291 DDF $2,000 Additional Rotary Clubs/Districts International Sponsor Club $13,000 Amount requested from the Rotary Foundation $9,000 Total $25,000 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. The Mobile clinic is operational and seen in D1450. It has already helped 700 people so far. Local sponsors have come forward to fund the maintainence and running cost of $250 monthly. <26-Jun-10> System Entry Creation of project page. <2-Aug-11> System Entry Project dropped per lack of response to the carry-over notification emails.