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	D-420    India - Kodiyampalyayam Safe Drinking Water $70,000 The Matching grant is to provide a compleat water purification system to supply safe water for an island village of 2000 Inhabitants off the coast of the Negapattinam District in india. The village had lost their water supply because of the Tsaminni in December of 2004 and have had to carry all water but boat from the mainland to the island ever since. A new complete water purification system will be built in Escondido California by the Pure-O-Tech company and installed there with the cooperation of the Salem Centennial Rotary club and District 2980 who will over see the care of the system once installed. The system will provide safe water that will be up to WHO standards and remove not only the salt but all other chemicals that can hurt the health of the people. Primary Host Partner in the Project Country Club: Salem Centennial District: 2980 Primary Contact: PDG V.S.Gobalan Email: sirinigo@gmail.com Check all projects from: [District 2980] [Salem Centennial Rotary Club] [PDG V.S.Gobalan] Primary International Partner Outside the Project Country Club: Escondido Sunrise District: 5340 Primary Contact: Arthur McCullough Email: artmccullough@cox.net Check all projects from: [District 5340] [Escondido Sunrise Rotary Club] [Arthur McCullough] Proposed Financing Primary Host Sponsor Rotary Club/District Rotary Club of Salem Centennial $2,600 Primary International Sponsor Rotary Club/District Rotary Club of Escondido Sunrise $36,100 District 5340 DDF $6,000 Additional Rotary Clubs/Districts Rotary Club of Valley Center $2,000 Amount requested from the Rotary Foundation $23,300 Total $70,000 Status and Progress Information Completed This project is completed. Project listed for the 2005-06 Rotary Year. The Matching Grant application number from TRF is #59584. The TRF Staff in charge of this grant is Dia Hart (HartD@Rotaryintl.org). This Matching grant is already funded by the Escondido Sunrise RC, The Valley Center RC, the Salem Centennial RC, the related Districts and outside donations of $38,500. <17-Jan-06> System Entry Creation of project page. <8-Mar-06> by Dan Gensler Application forwared to The Rotary Foundation for review. <29-Mar-06> System Entry Grant approved by The Rotary Foundation. <2-Jan-07> by Art McCullough This project is not completed as yet because of the India Goovernment red tape that is holding us up. <20-Jul-07> by art McCullough This project was approved, the system was built and it is being shipped to India on July 22 or 23, 2007. <24-Jun-08> by Susan Thorning District 5340 Matching Grants Report for June 6 indicates that that the last report accepted by The Rotary Foundation for this project was received March 26, 2007. <31-Jul-08> by Susan Thorning The intake to the system had to be modified to prevent salt water from coming into the system. So, the finalization of this project was delayed until a month ago. Art McCullough indicated that a final report has been prepared and is being submitted by the Host Club. <29-Sep-08> 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.