How Rotary Clubs Can Help
How Can Rotary Clubs Help Solve This Drinking Water Crisis?
Adopt-A-Village Partnership
Your Rotary Club can change the life of an entire Indian village. Our unique Adopt-A-Village Partnership provides free and subsidized filters to change the health and lives of every man, woman and child in a rural village. For your contribution you and your Rotary Club can truly make a significant difference.
Includes:
- Up to 60 Bio-Sand Filters donated to neediest village families.
- Up to 30 more Bio-Sand Filters purchased by villagers at subsidized cost.
- Community Steward hired and trained to operate and maintain village filters for one year.
- Educational Program to teach village children water sanitation (this includes a bar of soap for each school child).
Rewards:
- Provide up to 1,350 people with clean water per day for 25-30 years.
- Your club’s name on every donated filter.
- Plaque in village with your club name inscribed.
- Your club name on Wall of Honor plaque in Kolar Workshop.
- Photograph of villages with certificate of appreciation.
- Receive on-going updates of program activities.
Cost:
- Varies for each village depending on number of subsidized filters purchased by villagers; Maximum contribution is $2,500 for 60 filters and subsidy of 30 filters.
International Service Goals
Implement your club’s International Service goals by putting your dollars to work now. Join other Rotary Clubs who have worked with us recently. To download PDF of SAPWII Adopt-A-Village Partnership program (one page), click here.
If an Adopt-A-Village Partnership is too large a project for your Rotary Club at this time, partner with other clubs and together you can Adopt-A-Village. For clubs in search of partners, contact Info@SAPWII.org.
Direct Contributions
Many Rotarians prefer to make direct contributions now, while their Rotary Club authorizes large projects and coordinates with a local Rotary Club in India. SAPWII has various ways you can help directly.
- Adopt-A-Family ($25): donate one Bio-Sand Filter to a needy family.
- Fill-A-Need: Earmark any donation for a specific program need, such as:
- Water Testing Equipment
- Uniforms for workshop staff
- Copper tubing (today’s purchase avoids future price increases)
- Three filter molds to make 6,000 filters
- For current "Wish List" needs or contact Info@SAPWII.org
Direct contributions to South Asia Pure Water Initiative, Inc., result in field delivery of village filters typically within 30 days. A waiting list of individual recipients and villages have come forward and are have already been approved. All we need is your club or direct contribution to supply clean drinking water.
Rotary Foundation Grants
Matching Grants from The Rotary Foundation are a powerful way to leverage club and/or district funds to substantially expand the size of a project. Matching Grants support broad-based international humanitarian projects with the aim of providing sustainable development, such as SAPWII’s water filter project.
All grants require participation of two Rotary Clubs -- your club and a Rotary Club in India where the water filter project is located. SAPWII's established presence in Kolar, India, and our cooperative working relationships with Indian Rotary Clubs in the area enables SAPWII to facilitate contact between your club and in-country Rotarians.
From experience SAPWII can provide valuable guidance with the application requirements of a Rotary Foundation Matching Grant. For more eligibility requirements on these grants, contact Info@SAPWII.org or your district Matching Grant Committee representative or visit Rotary International’s website: www.Rotary.org/foundations/grants.
South Asia Pure Water Initiative, Inc., is not a project of Rotary International. Individual Rotary Clubs and Districts support SAPWII projects. The Rotary Foundation supports projects of Rotary Clubs and Districts.
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