Project Description Region: South-East Asia Country: India Location: Shimoga Total Budget: $79,434 Area of Focus: The environment Upcycling transforms by-products, waste materials, and useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products perceived to be of greater quality, such as artistic, commercial, or environmental value. It reforms and refurnishes waste for another use. It converts waste into value-added products to save resources. 1) Oversight The project will establish a system/model to manage feather waste from the streets and waters of Shivamogga smart city. It will then be reprocessed and repurposed which will give some members of stakeholders an employment opportunity in the sale of the repurposed products. The environment will benefit from an increased substitution of fossil-based for biobased materials derived from waste streams. ii) Sustainability Step includes: • Community assessment, • Project implementation; • Community engagement commitment • Rotary Club, Shimoga North is a committed group that expects to be an important health/environmental group in Shivamogga smart city for many years. • Rotarian in in-charge will visit this operation periodically to ensure everything functions as intended. Our team of Rotarians has a proven record of sustainability on the global grant/ESRAG projects; and support over the years. • The equipment that will be designed/purchased as part of this grant will be properly maintained and serviced and is expected to have a long, functional life. Rtn. Dr. Dhoolappa M. will visit this operation periodically to ensure everything is functioning as intended. Er. Umesh S. has a proven record of sustainability on the projects; he has supported over the years. • We perusing the Shivamogga City, Corporation to provide the required space (at the Solid Waste Recycling Unit at Alkola Circle Ward No. 6) to establish a feather bank. MOU will be entered into terms and conditions as lay down by stakeholders. It will have enough tax revenue and government allocations initially to meet the recurring and maintenance expenses. • It will have enough tax revenue and government allocations to meet the recurring and maintenance expenses. Primary Host Partner District: 3182 Rotary Club of: Shimoga North Primary Contact: Dhoolappa Email: drdsm2011@gmail.com Primary International Partner We are looking for a Club partner. Click here to pledge support for this project. Recording a pledge will make you the Primary International Partner for this project. Project Status Need $79,434 This project needs to receive some pledges to go to the next level. Please check the "Financing" tab to see the list of current pledges. Once the amount pledged is equal to the project budget, the status of the project will be automatically changed to "Fully Pledged". Click here to pledge support for this project. Project listed for the 2024-25 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total There are no contributions yet for this project. Remaining Amount to Raise Additional Club Contribution (Needed) - Add a contribution $79,434 - $79,434 Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation - $0 $0 Total $79,434 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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