Project Description Region: South-East Asia Country: India Location: Mumbai Total Budget: $683,196 Area of Focus: Disease prevention and treatment Addiction is the biggest Mental Health problem in the world as well in East and South as in North and West. Many Rotarians wherever in the world have contact with addiction problems in their family, Rotary club or professional environment. Besides the big and international discussions about legalizing or not, prevention is the priority and unfortunately the field with the least financial or structural effort. Rotary can help to train more people and Rotarians to strengthen the field of prevention all over the world in a continued sustainable action. For Europe and the US the EU Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and the US National Institute on Drug Abuse organize this trainings on a yearly bases for already 5 years. With this Global Grant the same training programs will be implemented in Asia and parallel a webinar training will be developed World Wide. Training of students, young professionals in addiction treatment and addiction prevention. Students and young professionals in order to expand the number of professionals active in this field.Evaluation of the training program in order to adapt the curriculum for the next training sessions. 50 students per year, 50 young professionals per year will benefit from the training and will become active to organize and implement evidence based addiction prevention programs in their local communities in cooperation with Rotary Clubs and with the support of the Rotarian Action Group Addiction Prevention. When the global grant is closed. The local University will continue the training program in close cooperation with EMCDDA and NIDA. Primary Host Partner District: 1620 Rotary Club of: Maldegem Primary Contact: Yvan De Baerdemaecker Email: yvan.de.baerdemaecker@telenet.be Primary International Partner District: 3141 Rotary Club of: Mumbai Ghatkopar Primary Contact: Yogesh Zaveri Email: neelayogesh@gmail.com Project Status Dropped This project has been "Dropped". Check the history log entries to see why it was dropped. Project listed for the 2017-18 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Maldegem (1620) 17-Jul-17 $2,500 $5,000 $7,500 Mumbai Ghatkopar (3141) 17-Jul-17 $2,500 $2,500 $5,000 Presidente Olegário (4760) 29-Oct-17 $440,464 $0 $440,464 Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation $222,732 $7,500 $230,232 Total $683,196 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 16-Jul-17 by Johan Maertens System Entry: Creation of project page. 29-Oct-17 System Entry System Entry: Pledge of $440,464 by Leandro S Fernandes of the Rotary Club of Presidente Olegário, District 4760. 29-Oct-17 System Entry System Entry: Project is now "Fully Pledged". 16-Aug-18 by Philippe Lamoise System Entry: Project dropped by Philippe Lamoise. Reason for dropping: Dropped at the request of Johan Maertens.