Many schools, particularly those in rural areas, often completely lack safe drinking-water, sanitation facilities and hygiene education. If WASH facilities are absent, or are badly maintained or used in a school, students are at risk for diseases to be transmitted. Girls suffer more because of inadequate sanitation and privacy concern during their menstruation period, which forces many school girls to be absent from school, and increase school drop-out (WHO, 2009, Lidonde, 2004).
This grant intends to improve the WASH in 10-13 public schools in the Lalitpur District of Nepal in a comprehensive and sustainable manner. Over 6000 students could benefit from this project. We plan to start the project in December and complete the hardware part within 5 months. The initial software part would be competed within 5 months as well but long term monitoring would continue over a period of 3-5 years to ensure the sustainability of the interventions.
Reported
This project is "Reported". This means the final report has been sent to The Rotary Foundation, waiting to be approved.
Project listed for the 2017-18 Rotary Year.
The TRF Grant application number is #1860104.
Proposed Financing
Existing Contributions Towards This Project
Date
Cash
DDF
Total
Patan (3292)
15-Oct-17
$1,000
$0
$1,000
Vignola-Castelfranco E.-Bazzano (2072)
15-Oct-17
$29,000
$20,000
$49,000
Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation
$15,000
$20,000
$35,000
Total
$85,000
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%.
