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	D-1355    India - Calcutta Healing Little Hearts $57,292 To provide heart surgeries for little children from poor income families. Thousands of children in India are born with a hole in the heart and unless this anomaly is addressed through surgery the child cannot live beyond a few years. Surgery however can ensure a healthy and long life to the child. The fear of loss of life of the children plunge the poor family into darkness and the only ray of hope is surgery which is beyond the capacity of these poor families. The cost of surgery is $ 1500 to $ 3000 depending on the complication whereas the average income of such families is about $ 50 – 70 per month. Surgery therefore, is impossible for them without help from us. We have negotiated with hospitals to bring down the cost of surgery to Rs (INR) 50,000/- equivalent to $ 1042 per patient. The project envisages heart surgeries for 55 children over a period of 12 – 15 months. Primary Host Partner in the Project Country Club: Calcutta Mahanagar District: 3291 Primary Contact: PDG Shekhar Mehta Email: skylinehouse@vsnl.net Check all projects from: [District 3291] [Calcutta Mahanagar Rotary Club] [PDG Shekhar Mehta] Primary International Partner Outside the Project Country Club: Cambridge North District: 7080 Primary Contact: Kathi Dick Email: kathid@rogers.com Check all projects from: [District 7080] [Cambridge North Rotary Club] [Kathi Dick] Proposed Financing Primary Host Sponsor Rotary Club/District District 3291 DDF $6,478 Primary International Sponsor Rotary Club/District Rotary Club of Cambridge North $6,915 District 7080 DDF $7,000 Additional Rotary Clubs/Districts Rotary Club of Waterloo $6,900 District 3260 DDF $5,000 Amount requested from the Rotary Foundation $24,999 Total $57,292 Status and Progress Information Completed This project is completed. Project listed for the 2009-10 Rotary Year. The Matching Grant application number from TRF is #71422. The TRF Staff in charge of this grant is Santa Leal (santa.leal@rotary.org). The project will save lives of little children and will bring succour, peace and happiness to the families of all the children who are operated upon. These children will, after this surgery, grow healthy or otherwise would not have lived a normal life or would not have lived beyond a few years at all. It will also tremendously reduce financial burden of the poor families on medical expenses. The recurring medical expenses of families too will stop. <15-Dec-08> System Entry Creation of project page. <18-Dec-08> System Entry Pledge of $6,915 by Kathi Dick c/o PDG Doug Vincent of the Rotary Club of Cambridge North, District 7080. <18-Dec-08> by PDG Doug Vincent Entered pledge by RC Cambridge and Rotarians, pending BOD approval. <18-Dec-08> by PDG Doug Vincent Adjusted budget amounts to reflect expected D7080 DDF and club contributions. <3-Jan-09> by PDG Doug Vincent I have emailed a scanned page to Shekha with our TRF Chair and DG signatures for the D7080 DDF portion. Only need the President's signature page scanned/emailed and then everything should be done from our end. <6-Jan-09> by Elizabeth Forsyth completed contact information required <19-Feb-09> by PDG Doug Vincent I have just emailed to Shekhar and uploaded the final signature page from our D7080 Contacts. Our funding is in place and things are complete at this end. Next step is for Shekhar to complete final application form with signature pages and hospital documents inserted, then print to a pdf file and submit electronically to TRF. <30-Mar-09> System Entry Grant paperwork sent to The Rotary Foundation. <5-May-09> by Philippe Lamoise Project carried over to 2009-10 at the request of Doug Vincent. <31-Jul-09> System Entry Grant paperwork sent to The Rotary Foundation. <2-Sep-09> System Entry TRF Grant Number assigned: 71,422. <19-Oct-09> System Entry Grant approved by The Rotary Foundation. <19-Oct-09> by Deepak Announcement letter uploaded and Grant Application Updated. Thanks and regards. <16-Mar-11> by Doug Vincent Shekhar Mehta advised today that project is successfully complete and that final report is in process. Great work gang! On to another one now. <16-Aug-12> System Entry Grant status changed to "Completed". Web site design by Philippe Lamoise, D2G Pages, pictures and video on this site © Philippe Lamoise 2001, 2005 This website is a private initiative by Rotarian Philippe Lamoise, Torrey Pines Rotary Club, District 5340, to help the clubs and districts worldwide to do matching grants with The Rotary Foundation.