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Adopted Villages
The list of Adopted Villages continues to grow rapidly. Entire villages are surveyed for need and selected. More are on the waiting list looking for sponsors.
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DEDICATED: September 16, 2006
IMPACT: 119 households selected for water filters; pop: 2,020, 171 houses including 122 mud houses; agricultural laborers and dry agriculture (ragi, mulberry, beedi workers); Illiteracy: 80%; higher primary and high school: 205 students, Child Care Centre (0-3 age): 25 children; Community Steward: Shri Mr. Venkatappa (retired teacher).
SPONSOR: Rotary Club of Hamden (Connecticut)
FUNDING: $3,995 US
MORE: Village Photos & Fact Sheet
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DEDICATED: November 27, 2006
IMPACT: Literacy: 28%, Illiteracy: 72%; 210 houses, of which 105 mud houses; population: 1,100 agricultural laborers (ragi and groundnut, etc.); open well pumped into four small systems; Community Steward: Shri Muniyappa, Social Worker Attur.
SPONSOR: Pete French in honor of Clifton and Joanne French
FUNDING: $2,200 US
MORE: Village Photos & Fact Sheet
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DEDICATED: November 16, 2006
IMPACT: 25 Km from Kolar via Chickbalapur Road; pop: 1,985, 265 houses including 135 mud houses; bore well pumped into five tanks; open sewerage to a drainage pond with bad condition; most people have joint pains, suffering from malaria and chikungunia; Illiteracy: 72%; Community Steward: Ms. Jayamma.
SPONSOR: Rotary Club of New London (Connecticut)
FUNDING: $2,200 US
MORE: Village Photos & Fact Sheet
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DEDICATED: March 2, 2007
IMPACT: 40 Km from Kolar; 140 houses with 110 mud houses, population: 850; agricultural laborers in dry agriculture; bore well pumped into three small systems; open sewerage to a drainage pond; Community Steward: Ms. Manjula, self-help group member.
SPONSOR: Ultima Degnan Morgan
FUNDING: $2,500 US
MORE: Village Photos & Fact Sheet
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DEDICATED: January 27, 2007
IMPACT: 89 households selected for filters; population 1,000, of 120 houses 75 mud houses; water supply from bore well pumped into four tanks in village; Most people report joint pains, suffering from Malaria and Chikungunia; Community Steward: Shri Yoginarayanaswamy, Women Self-Help Group.
SPONSOR: Rotary Club of Thomaston (Connecticut)
FUNDING: $2,200 US
MORE: Village Photos & Fact Sheet
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DEDICATED: May 31, 2007.
IMPACT: Population: 480; primary school: 42 students, Child Care Centre (0-3 age): 36 children; 104 houses of which 90 mud houses; 53 households selected who are members of Self-Help Groups (SHG), 18 SHG members volunteered to purchase filters.
SPONSOR: Rotary Club of Danbury Sunrise (Connecticut)
FUNDING: $1,900 US
MORE: Fact Sheet
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DEDICATED: May 31, 2007
IMPACT: 145 houses of which 120 mud houses; 40 Km from Kolar; population 565; most people have joint pains, suffering from malaria and chikungunia, hair loss and tooth decay due to florid content of water; literacy 22%; agricultural laborers (mostly groundnut and ragi).
SPONSOR: Two friends from the USA
FUNDING: $2,100 US
MORE: Fact Sheet
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DEDICATED: To be dedicated June 2007
IMPACT: Bore well pumped into two small systems; open sewerage to a drainage pond; population 350, agricultural laborers and dry agriculture (ragi and groundnut crops, etc.); 80 houses of which 70 mud houses.
SPONSOR: Various donors in memory of Bernard Lipman
FUNDING: $1,600 US
MORE: Fact Sheet
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DEDICATED: Not yet dedicated
IMPACT: Population 503; 105 houses of which 95 mud houses; open sewerage to a drainage pond; hair loss and tooth decay due to florid content of water; illiteracy: 77%.
SPONSOR: Rotary Club of Niantic (Connecticut)
FUNDING: $2,300 US
MORE: Fact Sheet
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DEDICATED: June 7, 2006
IMPACT: All 96 houses received filters, population: 700; four small cisterns supplied by bore well; Illiteracy: 82%; farm laborers, dry agriculture (no irrigation); open sewer drains into pond; 18 Km from Kolar; Community Steward: Shri Narayanaswamy.
SPONSOR: Rotary Club of North Haven (Connecticut)
FUNDING: $3,230 US
MORE: Village Photos & Fact Sheet
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