Some of Rotary’s best work has been done in India, notably on Ending Polio and Water & Sanitation projects.  About eight years ago, our Club worked with a District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to provide improved schoolrooms for the kids there.  Our main contact was District Governor (DG) Purushothaman, who goes by Puru.  Since that successful collaboration, we’ve been saving some Casino Night money each year in a bucket called Water Project and it has built up to $8,000 with some additional proceeds from this year’s successful evening.  Ken Schwartz, our Foundation Treasurer, recently got an email from Puru to help on another project.

 

This project, glamorously entitled Girls School Toilet Block, would provide water and sanitation for girls schools in Puru’s District.  That District has started an application for a Global Grant with Richardson East as its partner.  Woody Alexander, as International Services Chair, is working with the Indian team along with Ken and David Loughridge, who has been to Puru’s home in India.  We thought we could only do seven girls schools until DG Ean Sullivan and PDG Sandy Forster stepped up the District contribution to fund a total of twelve girls schools.

 

The Project is moving fast with work scheduled to start and end in 2014.  After it is finished, Sandy says she will go inspect and bring some pictures of (vacant) toilets so Casino Night participants can see where there money is going….into toilet blocks!

 

Below is a picture of urinals built at another school.