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Global Grant Proposal Form for Project G-2414 Last updated by Mark Siemonsma <msiemons@hopehaven.org> on 13-Apr-20 Project Title Mobilizing PWD Philippines Type of Project [X] Humanitarian [X] VTT [ ] Scholarship Primary Host Partner Information
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Grant Host Committee
Grant International Committee
Do any of these committee members have potential conflict of interest? If so, please briefly explain. No Tell us a little about your project. What are the main objectives of the project, and who will benefit from it? Objectives: 1) Provide 400 wheelchairs and 50 walkers and canes to the Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons to Tagbilaran, Philippines, assisted by Rotary Clubs in District 3860 Bohol Island, Philippines. 2) Send a Vocational Training Team from the US to assist in training Filipino teams from Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons and Bohol, Cebu and Manila Rotary clubs in fitting and maintaining chairs of Filipinos with disabilities. 3) Complete renovation of handicapped accessible classrooms and restrooms at Valencia Technical Vocational High School, Bohol, Philippines and 4) Continuously monitor and evaluate impact of wheelchair access to and high school education of Filipino people with disabilities. The total beneficiaries of this project will be over 400 individuals with disabilities in the Philippines that will receive the wheelchairs and peripheral products. Indirect beneficiaries are the families of the beneficiaries and six staff working at Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons who will be trained in wheelchair distribution and follow-up services. This will provide additional job opportunities for Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons staff, all of whom are themselves disabled and two (one-third) women. Wheelchair recipients who gain mobility find access to community socialization, education, workforce opportunities, and so much more. Which area of focus will this project support?
Which goals of this area of focus will your project support? - How will you measure your project impact?
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Humanitarian Project Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines 07/01/21-06/30/22
Vocational Training Team
Vocational Training Team Pending What is your role in this training? Describe how you will participate. Pending
Cooperating Organization (Optional)
Why did you choose to partner with this organization and what will its role be? Father Felix Warli Salise, Jr. , Coordinator of Catholic Relief Services for Bohol Island, introduced the Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons to the project. The Federation is a nongovernmental organization of people with disabilities on Bohol Island. All its 8,700 members and its staff are themselves disabled. They have been providing services to people with disabilities (PWD) for the past 20 years. Hope Haven International (HHI) was established in 1994. HHI was established in 1994 and has delivered over 129,000 wheelchairs, fitted by seating professionals, to recipients in 109 countries. While there has never been a major distribution program in the Philippines, 363 Filipinos have received chairs through some of their local charities, many of them church affiliated. HHI is a green organization, as it recycles used wheelchairs that are collected across North America and Europe. Partners (Optional) List any other partner that will participate in this project. Partners include the Valencia Technical Vocational High School and may include other Rotary clubs, Rotaract clubs, Rotary Community Corps, or individuals. A delegation from the Tagbilaran Rotary club introduced Valencia Technical Vocational High School to the project. VTVHS was formerly a general public high school. In 2009, it was converted to the only technical-vocational high school on the island. It provides its students with a high school academic degree plus technical-vocational skills and vocational certificates that makes them highly employable. It has grown to 2,396 students, a majority of whom are young women. It has 98 faculty members the vast majority of whom are women and all have at least a Master's degree. Its academic stream is the same as all other publicly certified high schools on Bohol. Its uniqueness is its technical-vocational and livelihood (TVL) track which provides technical-vocational curriculum and certificates in 8 vocational fields: electrical installation and maintenance, automotive servicing, caregiving, housekeeping, cookery, bread and pastry, front office and event management services, tourism/local tour guiding services and driving. It has agreed to be the storage, distribution and training center for the container of wheelchairs. With continued support of Rotary, it seeks to renovate two handicapped accessible workshop classrooms and two restrooms of a ground level existing classrooms complex. Their principal and faculty have committed to develop specialize curriculum for an outreach recruitment of students with disabilities. Volunteer Travelers (Optional) Provide name, email of traveler(s). - Describe this person's role in the project. - Rotarian Participants Describe the role that host Rotarians will have in this project. The Rotary Club of Tagbilaran Philippines (Club No. 17134; Rotary District 3860) will be the host Rotary club. They additionally will be supported by other Rotary clubs on Bohol Island and District 3810; Cavite, Manila, Mindoro Occidental, and Pasay, Philippines which will seek to fund and implement phase II of the project in 2021 in District 3810. The host club will assist Hope Haven International, Father Warli and the Bohol Federation of People with Disabilities in facilitating smooth offload of the container of chairs with customs officials at the Bohol Island Port. They will also arrange transportation of the container to Valencia Technical-Vocational High School. Finally, they will arrange local accommodation for the VTT team for the week they will be in the Philippines. Volunteers from the aforementioned Philippines Rotary clubs will assist the VTT team and the Federation staff in assembly of chairs, fitting, adjusting and training wheelchair recipients in wheelchair use. For those individual wheelchair recipients who may not be able to make it to VTVHS, the Federation staff assisted by the VTT team and the Philippine Rotary volunteers, will take individual chairs and fit them to the recipient in their home. The host club will develop a Rotary monitoring committee that may additionally include Philippine occupational therapist(s). This voluntary team will work closely with the Federation and continuously monitor the program and conduct the annual evaluation. The host committee will also establish a dual signature banking account with the Federation to assure that a Rotarian member has continuous overview and approval of all expenditures and make certain that Federation maintains financial records, including an annual financial statement. Describe the role that international Rotarians will have in this project. 1) Secure the bulk of matching funds to meet the requirements of this global grant request. 2) Recruit and participate as members of the Vocation Training Team. Suggest improvements in the project methodology and implementation, especially when they visit the Philippines. 3) Visit at least once a year with individual wheelchair recipients, Bohol Federation of People with Disabilities, Valencia Technical-Vocational High School, host and supporting Philippines Rotary clubs involved in the project. What is the budget for this grant?
Tell us about the funding you have secured for your project.
Humanitarian Projects - Project Planning Describe the community needs that your project will address. On Bohol Island in the Philippines the need for wheelchair services is significant. Based off the 2010 census, there are (estimated) 1.44 million people with disabilities in the Philippines. Staff of the Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons have identified 200 individuals who need but cannot afford wheelchairs. This group will be first priority recipients. There are probably at least twice that number who can afford and already have locally produced chairs, as well as imports from the US, and especially China. The vast majority of these chairs are not nearly the highest standard of Hope Haven International's chairs, which are internationally recognized as the best. Members of the Tagbilaran Rotary asked if family members with disabilities who can afford and need wheelchairs, the Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons could accept individual or family contributions to the Federation, which could then provide wheelchairs to selected individuals designated by the donor. This would enable a stream of income to help pay for at least one additional full-time employee that Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons will have to hire to coordinate the wheelchair program. That would bring the total amount of beneficiaries to over 400 people. Having the continuous support of Hope Haven International will also help sustain the project. Hope Haven International's headquarters is in Sioux Falls, SD, USA .They have multiple manufacturing and distribution centers through the United States and Internationally. Their largest manufacturing plant is at the South Dakota State Prison in Sioux Falls, South Dakota where 60 inmates strip down old wheelchairs and completely rebuild them for new use. Their major international manufacturing plant is in Guatemala, which received a RIF global grant. How did your project team identify these needs. The direct beneficiaries will be over 400 people with disabilities in the Philippines identified by the Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons. The staff are using a standardized form for wheelchair beneficiary recipients developed by Hope Haven International. Adapted for the Philippines, that form will individually identify each local recipient, their age, address, diagnosis of need, ,and recommended mobility equipment (i.e. wheelchairs, walkers, and canes). Each recipient will receive training by the Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons staff in how to use the wheelchair, adjust when necessary and provide simple maintenance. A universal tool will be given to each recipient to enable them to make simple adjustments and maintenance. The recipient will sign an individual contract that they will use the wheelchair for the purpose it is given and never loan it or sell it to another individual. When they outgrow the wheelchair, as will be true of the youth, or die, as will be true of elders, the chair will be returned to Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons to be refurbished and given to another needy recipient. How were members of the benefiting community involved in finding solutions. This project was first brainstormed with former Captain (Chairman), Gil Bustamante, San Isidro Barangay (District) Council, in 2015. Bustamante met with Tom Katus, Rushmore Rotary, Rapid City, SD and a member of the International Advisory Council of Hope Haven International, Sioux Falls, SD. After Captain Bustamante understood the potential of Hope Haven International provided wheelchairs to the Philippines, he introduced Katus to Father Felix Warli Salise, JR. Coordinator of Catholic Relief Services, for Bohol Island. Father Warli then introduced Mr. Katus to the leadership and staff of the Bohol Federation of People with Disabilities. The Federation has provided services to people with disabilities for 20 years. Their members and their board and staff are themselves people with disabilities. They knew that scores of their members were disabled and too poor to afford wheelchairs. How were community members involved in planning the project. The Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons President, Mateo Quias, who is himself blind, assigned Robin Juwel, his Director of Field Operations, who is an amputee, to gather specific information on people with disabilities needed but could not afford wheelchairs. Juwel undertook an extensive research needs assessment and communicated with Katus in summer 2017 that he had identified people with disabilities on Bohol Island. During this first visit, Captain Bustamante and the Father Warli accompanied and introduced Katus to the leadership of the Tagbilaran and Bohol Island Rotary Clubs. Father Warli and Katus subsequently attended weekly meetings of two clubs. Katus remained in contact with Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons., Captain Bustamante, Father Warli and the Rotary leadership, including annual visits to all the above in 2016 through 2019. During a March 15, 2019 visit, Tagbilaran Rotary leaders Ma. Eva Eleanor Jubac; Louella Bantol, Executive Secretary; and Luz Mabelita Saniel, met with Father Warli, Juwel Robin, and Tom Katus. They were joined by Face Time with Ben Aranda, PP Historic Filipinotown, who was departing from Manila. Juwel subsequently introduced Jubac, Bantol and Katus to a quarterly meeting of 94 representatives from 47 municipalities of the Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons. They also met the newly appointed President of the Federation, Ignacio Saure. When Katus returned to the US after his first visit to the Philippines in 2015, he met with the leadership of the Historic Filipinotown Rotary Club, Los Angeles, California. This Club was the International partner of the Guatemala global grant. The leadership was very interested in a potential wheelchair project for the Philippines and indicated their initial consideration to again be an International partner, this time on a global grant request for wheelchairs in the Philippines. Katus and the former Director of Hope Haven International Operations had follow up meetings with Historic Filipinotown's Rotary leadership, and presented to the full membership at a meeting held November 1, 2018. In his most recent rip of March 2019, Katus again met with all Filipino leaders. He attended two successive meetings of the Tagbilaran Rotary club, providing updated information at both. The Tagbilaran Rotary club, providing updated information at both. The Tagbilaran club leaders who know Father Warli extremely well, agreed to be the local host club of this global grant request. They also arranged a visit of their leadership, together with Katus, to the Valencia Technical-Vocational High School, the Rotary leadership introduced Katus to Jonas Gabutan, Principal and faculty leaders of Valencia Technical-Vocational High School. At their request, he offered their School to receive and store the chairs and serve as the training distribution center in cooperation with Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons, supported by the Bohol Island Rotaries. Following considerable email correspondence, during his 2018 trip, Katus met with the Chief of Staff of Senator, Manny Pacquaio who is Past President, Rotary Club of Manila Premier. The Senator had endorsed the project in 2017. The Chief of Staff introduced Katus to Liza Elorde, Past President and Governor (2019-2020) Rotary District 3810. On March 30, 2019, Liz Elorde together with Ernesto Youyek, PDG, George Ng, PP, and Johnny Elorde met Katus and indicated they would seriously consider their District joining in support of the project and seeking a DDF. They are especially interested in implementing the project in phase II in their District in 2021-22. Humanitarian Projects - Project Implementation Summarize each step of your project's implementation.
Will you work in coordination with any related initiative in the community? If yes, briefly describe the other initiatives and how they relate to this project. If no, please explain. Are local initiatives not addressing these needs? Or, if they are, why did you decide not to work with them? Yes - Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons, an NGO, has successfully provided services to its PWD members for the past 20 years. The Valencia Technical Vocational High School is the only technical high school on the island of Bohol. It seeks to extend its educational services to Bohol's PWDs by renovating two classrooms to be handicapped accessible and developing curriculum relevant to PWDs. This project aligns very well with the ongoing local initiatives of the Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons and the Valencia Technical Vocational High School, supported by the Bohol Island Rotary clubs. Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons celebrated its 20th anniversary in February 2018. They provides wheelchairs to their members and the public who need mobility but cannot afford it, and offer additional services to people with disabilities on Bohol Island. The Valencia Technical Vocational High School was previously a general public high school. In the past, boys were the majority of students. It was converted to the only technical and vocational high school on the island. It has grown rapidly to 2,500 students, more than one-half of whom are now young women. Like other high schools on the island, their graduates receive the recognized public high school degree. However, The Valencia Technical Vocational High School graduates are sought after by employers because they have additional technical skills and vocational certificates that can be immediately applied in local businesses and non-profit organizations. Providing additional outreach and constructing handicapped accessible workshop classrooms and restrooms will provide additional opportunities to students with disabilities. These efforts will provide students with disabilities new educational opportunities and employment. Please describe the training, community outreach, or educational programs this project will include. Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons staff and Bohol Rotary volunteers will be trained by the Vocational Training Team arriving from the US in the fourth month of this project. A partner disability organization's staff and volunteers from Rotary district 3810 will participate and shadow in this training. This will enable them to move forward with a separate application for phase II of the project to be implemented in District 3810 in 2020. Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons staff, initialy assisted by the Vocational Training Team, will train the individual wheelchair users on how to use, adjust, and maintain their wheelchairs. The Federation will also work closely with the principal and staff of the Valencia Technical Vocational High School, to develop curriculum relevant to preparing graduates to serve people with disabilities. The Valencia Technical Vocational High School will provide these new course to all its students, but especially to those with disabilities How were these needs identified? These needs were identified by extensive consultation between the Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons, Valencia Technical Vocational High School, Bohol, Cebu, and Manila Rotartians as documented above. What incentives (for example, monetary compensation, awards, certification, or publicity), will you use, if any, to encourage community members to participate in the project? Signed individual contracts with each PWD recipient of wheelchairs, certificates of training by the Vocational Training Team to Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons and Rotary and community volunteers, high school degrees and vocational certification provided by Valencia Technical Vocational High School to successful PWD graduates. List any community members or community groups that will oversee the continuation of the project after grant-funded activities conclude. Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons, Valencia Technical Vocational High School and the respective Rotary Districts in Bohol/Cebu and Manila, Philippipnes. Vocational Training Teams - Project Implementation Describe the training needs that the team will address. The Vocational Training Teams will assist the Filipinos teams from Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons and local Rotary clubs in fitting and maintaining wheelchairs for those with disabilities. The teams will provide new knowledge on Physical Therapy best practices and other up to date information on custom fitting an individual to a wheelchair based on their needs, as well as the proper ways to educate family members and caretakers. How did your team identify these needs? These needs were identified locally by the cooperating Bohol Island organizations who are seeking assistance for these training topics. Describe the specific objectives of the training, including what you expect training participants to gain from the team's expertise. Objectives of the training include: 1) Improving the knowledge base and capacity of local organizations that serve people with disabilities and 2) Promoting disease prevention and treatment techniques How were members of the local community involved in planning the training? Local community members were involved in the training by means of thorough communication, seeking advice and counsel based on their specific in-country needs. Will you work in coordination with any related initiatives in the community? If yes, briefly describe the other initiatives and how they relate to this project. If no, please explain. Are local initiatives not addressing these needs? Or, if they are, why did you decide not to work with them? Yes - Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons has successfully provided services to individuals with disabilities for the past 20 years. They provide wheelchairs to their members and the public who need mobility and other services but cannot afford it. What incentives (for example, monetary compensation, awards, certification, or promotion) will you use, if any, to encourage community members to participate in the training? Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons staff are seeking to expand their knowledge base, and provide even more wheelchairs to people in need through this training and distribution. How will training recipients be supported after the training to keep the skills they acquire up-to-date? They will be part of the grant monitoring and follow up process. List any community members or community groups that will oversee further training after the project ends. The local Rotary clubs will be in communication with Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons to check in with further training after the project ends. Budget Will you purchase budget items from local vendors? Explain the process you used to select vendors. Yes - We will purchase budget items from local vendors for renovation, labor, materials, transportation and supplies. Hope Haven International will provide all US manufactured wheelchairs and peripherals and shipping. Local vendors will be asked to provide best value. When equipment is not locally obtainable, research online will provide best buys. Did you use competitive bidding to select vendors? If no, please explain. Yes Please provide an operating and maintenance plan for the equipment or materials you purchased for this project. This plan should include who will operate and maintain the equipment and how they will be trained. During the distribution and fitting of wheelchairs and other devices, the Vocational Training Team will also be training local volunteers (Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons and local Rotary clubs) along with recipients with disabilities and their families on long term maintenance for these items. Describe how community members will maintain the equipment after grant-funded activities conclude. Will replacement parts be available? As the individuals with disabilities receive wheelchairs and other mobility devices, the professionals will demonstrate the proper seating methods and how to fit and maintain the equipment. The equipment is built so materials are readily available around the world for replacement parts. If the grant will be used to purchase any equipment, will the equipment be culturally appropriate and conform to the community's technology standards? If yes, please explain. If no, describe how the project team will help community members adopt the technology. Yes - The wheelchairs and mobility devices are specifically matched to the unique needs of the person receiving them. Each person will be individually fit and trained to their wheelchair. The equipment is culturally appropriate because it will be custom fitted and adjusted to that individual's specific lifestyle and needs. After the project is completed, who will own the items purchased by grant funds? No items may be owned by a Rotary district, club, or member. The items will be owned by the Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons. Funding Have you found a local funding source to sustain project outcomes for the long term? If yes, please describe this funding source. Yes - With the extra 200 wheelchair recipients that will be identified by the Bohol Federation of Disabled Persons, there is the opportunity for additional income to be made locally, as those will be locally sold to those who could afford a wheelchair. Additionally, we will seek a local organization(s) (ex. bicycle repair shop) capable of providing local assistance to recipients who seek any needed future repairs to their given wheelchair. Will any part of the project generate income for ongoing project funding? If yes, please explain. No Is your economic and community development activity a microcredit project? If yes, upload your microcredit supplement file. No | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||