WASH Our goal is to partner together to provide sustainable, holistic, and high-quality water solutions to remote, rural communities in South Western Uganda. People living in these last-mile villages earn less than $2 per day, have low literacy rates (grade 2-5), and walk over 3 km to fetch water from contaminated sources. Irimya parish has an extremely high rate of waterborne disease. Our goal is to partner with the Mbarara Rotary in Uganda who, in turn, will contract Acts Uganda, a local NGO that has been working in this region for over 30 years to implement the project. Together, the Rotaries in Canada and Uganda will join together to bring clean, safe water through a Gravity Flow System and all the WASH training needed to see this region thrive. ACTS Uganda has been working in the specific area and has seen tremendous reception to their work. During COVID, they have continued to expand their work, teaching communities how to make soap, building more latrines at schools, and attempting larger water projects than ever before.- For Life

Wash project in Department of Copan collaboration with World Vision. A $400,000 Rotary-$400,000. World Vision

Drill two boreholes at two primary schools, upgrade toilets, provide handwashing stations

Rehabilitation of $ Boreholes in Lado Payam South Sudan. Since 2011, the communities of Jebel Ladu have suffered severed with drought and floods. The MayNovember 2021 Floods, report the most devastating since 1960s, affected 6 out of 8 payams. Impacting around 20000 people and displacing more than 35000. In critical water scarcity periods, women and girls in Jebel Ladu are forced to spend half of a midnight in existing water source. Conflicts are exacerbated amongst women, men, girls, and boys in water sources during crucial times. Men are left home to take care of children while women go a long distance to fetch water and hence losing productive time that is meant for agriculture and other economic activities. The vulnerable groups suffer in accessing water and thus affecting their livelihood and health in general. Similarly, people living with disabilities (PLWDs) are much affected when it comes to movement for long distances and hours to fetch water for consumption.

Providing clean water to Seme Kaima village by drilling two wells. I have submitted this GG before but have updated the application. Please review this version. We are almost ready to submit the application to TRF and so would appreciate a speedy review. Thank you.

History Being the northernmost part of Greece, bordering Turkey and politically unstable with the refugee crisis and the Fylakio refugee centre, and a rural area, Orestiada is poor in infrastructure and the education system is not well supported, not to mention that Greece is still trying to rise as it comes out from under austerity measures. Orestiada lies in Rotary District 2475 with many schools, a university and a poor Hygiene education program and old worn out facilities that have not been updated for over 40 years. The Rotarian George Dimitriadis leading this project was a student in one of those schools and observes that there was little to no hygiene instruction. 20 years later, George, the other Rotarians, and their friends from the community, most of them parents and grandparents, find that nothing has changed. The students still have poor hygiene habits and the little teaching of hygiene and sanitation there, if available, is very poor and not targeted nor leading to any substantial change as you can see from the attached survey results. Beneficiaries The proposed project aims to benefit 6391students from kindergarten to high school from 51 schools in the area of Orestiada and all future students for the next 5 years in addition to the students matriculating at the University on a voluntary basis to ensure a sustainable WASH curriculum and significant impact. The awareness campaign will be the same as the schools on the LED screens of the sanitizer stations and whatever they wish to display around campus. THE GOAL is to improve the hygiene behaviour and education of the students not only through the distribution and instalment of hand sanitizer stations, one or more in ratio with student numbers and building layout, at key positions accessible to all students, able and disabled, but through the improvement or establishment of hygiene classes and workshops into the curriculum. Additionally, and in this pandemic, Covid-19 protocols, which comprise restricting campus to students and staff only at the moment, will be improved through the hand hygiene campaign and the sanitization stations to minimize the impact on the children and all staff. Improved hygiene implies disease prevention and not only for Covid-19 as per the prioritization by the World Bank and UNICEF: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.BASS.ZS?locations=GR&view=map https://data.unicef.org/topic/water-and-sanitation/hygiene/ https://data.unicef.org/resources/state-of-the-worlds-hand-hygiene/ Although the official data states that most Greeks access basic sanitation facilities, the reality in Greece is contradicted by the following study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34246184/ Medical professionals are not receiving the appropriate training as shown by the Results and the following Conclusion: ‘’Conclusion: In our study, medical students scored better in practices questions than nursing students; this did not apply for the knowledge score. The majority of students supported the inclusion of compulsory education on hand hygiene principles in their Departments’ curricula, highlighting compulsory education and seminars as the most effective measures to increase compliance with hand hygiene.’’ Then it is not surprising that the general population does not practice proper Hygiene in spite of having access to basic facilities. The results of the survey attached and the community-based assessment confirm that students and teachers are not provided with the appropriate training and there is an absence of a proper WASH curriculum at schools. Objectives In summary and in order to address the issues identified with the beneficiaries, local community and the authorities through the community-based assessment phase, the objectives are: 1. To identify the resources and secure local and international partnerships and collaboration that addresses the issues identified through the Community Based Assessment with the help of the greater Rotary network2. To deliver a sustainable and measurable design, including a training module and age-appropriate curricula, that is scalable. 3. To secure the engagement of the beneficiaries and the wider community to help in the improvement and delivery of hand-hygiene education. 4. To strengthen the system by gaining the engagement of the community and the local government which will bridge a two-way support system independent of further external involvement. 5. To support and leverage the achievements of this project for other initiatives within Orestiada and beyond in Greece. What is also encouraging and allows for sustainability and scalability by strengthening the system beyond this project is that we have the engagement of: • Government’s Institutions: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Department of Education and the public schools under their jurisdiction • The University on Orestiada area • 400 teachers representing all 51 schools and the University • Unofficially many parents from the community expressing support • Medical doctors volunteering from a jurisdiction outside of Orestiada area • Orestiada Mayor’s office The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Department of Education will be ensuring the representation of all the schools so that at least two dedicated staff from each school can become school trainers. To implement further data collection and reporting as per below, we’ll be using the same survey accompanying this application so that we can follow the progress and MEASURE the impact. Hopefully, the improvement that the system is making when fully implemented will allow us and the partners to tweak the different parts of the system as we learn what is working and what needs improvement in the process. The Orestiada Mayor’s office, that has dedicated a full ongoing budgetary commitment, will be overseeing the departments of education to secure the implementation of the project, as well as active participation through the storage, distribution and maintenance of the sanitization stations to which they have committed, as per the MOU attached, including the replenishment of sanitizer liquid and replacement of the devices in case of damage or end of life. Videos and photos will be uploaded in the social media and groups of the Rotary Club of Orestiada in order to leverage the opportunity of spreading awareness while building on the impact and promoting TRF’s work and Rotary’s profile in the area. This is only part of the REPORTING. There will be quarterly reports from the Mayor’s Office to the project Team based on the reports and data analysis from the survey by the Departments of Education. Please check the schedule in the MOU for the expected timeline and type of reporting as the data comes in. If we face delays or learned modifications, we will report that in a timely manner to ensure the engagement of the Rotarians involved, their clubs, the district and TRF as this will be a learning process for all those involved in the community and in Rotary. There will also be quarterly meetings with key representatives from the project team, the Mayor’s office and the departments of education to track, modify and implement necessary changes, as well as a final Lessons learned section in the final report. We hope that this project will encourage other teams and clubs in other areas to take similar initiatives as they are badly needed in Greece, especially in areas outside the major metropolitan areas. In fact, the medical team who has volunteered for this project has expressed interest pending the success of this project in building upon their experience in this one to implement a similar initiative in the area of Veria and George has already received further interest from three neighbouring Cities in Greece.

Two boreholes in two primary schoold with improved toilets and hand washing stations. ATM type water kisoks for surrounding communities

Provide clean water for Seme Kaima Village, Kenya by installing two wells.

The objectives include providing clean water and sanitation facilities of a sustainable nature to members of the indigenous Mayans living in Guatemala’s highlands for purposes of preventing constant diarrhea and other intestinal diseases that affect the population, particularly children which contributes to chronic malnutrition and makes the child mortality rate one of the highest in Latin America. Coupled with bringing potable water to each family’s household are the objectives to teach the residents about personal hygiene and cleanliness relating to washing hands before handling food and eating meals, using sanitary waste facilities along with regular, proper body washing.

Handwashing Education for students – Orestiada

Rotary Club of Capitol Hill (RCCH)Foundation Request for partners to implement FY2022-2023 International Service Projects 1. Ghana: Teteman Sanitation and Hygiene Project (TESAHP) • Grant type: Multi club: RCCH, Rotary Club of Metro Bethesda, Rotary-Club of Accra-South, Ghana + District Designated Funds (DDF)) • Club Point of contact and email address: Pauline Simmons; simmonsp296@gmail.com Outstanding amount to implement project: $27,000 Amount funded by the RCCH Foundation: $5,000 Amount funded by Metro Bethesda Rotary Club: $1,000 Amount DDF requested: $6,000 Goal of the TESAHP is to curtail open defecation, improve sanitary conditions, decrease/eradicate infectious diseases (typhoid, cholera, diarrhea, dysentery and intestinal worms) and improve the environment by addressing the deplorable sanitation and poor hygienic practices for approximately 5,000 residents of Teteman. The town’s mountainous rural community is mainly comprised of peasant farmers with vicious cycles of poverty. Objective is to provide four (8) urinals four (4) and washing basins two buildings with 10 flushing water closets and 5 hand washing basins. The Teteman municipal administration will provide sensitization training to address management and governance systems prior to utilization of the facilities. As well, prior to utilization, training will be provided on how to utilize the facilities, and quarterly thereafter, on sanitation and hygienic practices for approximately 1,500 members of the Teteman community. The Rotary Club of Metro Bethesda and the Teteman Diaspora Association will partner with the RCCH on this project, and the Rotary Club of Accra-South will serve as the international implementing partner. Eligibility for District or international funding match: Office of the Member of Parliament for Buem Constituency, where Teteman is located, will provide water and storage tanks for the hygiene and sanitation facilities. For management and sustainability purposes, the office will also assign a municipal engineer for the project. The Teteman Diaspora Association contributed $2,000 to RCCH Foundation and will provide $1,000 as seed money for a sanitation and hygiene account to maintain the facilities for long-term sustainability.

We plan to install a water purifying equipment in the village Globocec which will provide access to safe water to all 100 households in the village.

The sustainability of groundwater abstraction structures for drinking water in these villages will increase during the summer months. The yield of water supply in wells will also increase. II. The sustainability to irrigation potential created and scope for creating additional irrigation potential besides enhancing the drinking water facility, in the command area of these recharge structures.

The project is to provide fresh, cold water to students in the summer months of extreme Paraguayan heat without air-conditioning. Two initial fountains have been installed and scaling the project in Paraguay to 10-20 schools, possibly further in South America, is the next phase. The local club in Paraguay (Rotary of Luque, Paraguay) advised that student attendance was low due to not having cool drinking water. The initial project took place in 2018 followed by a trip to Paraguay by Vinings Cumberland Rotarians to see the fountains and meet Luque, Paraguay Club Rotarians. The desire is to scale the project to additional schools in Paraguay and this will be dependent on funding.

The primary objective of this project is to expand a rudimentary water distribution system that irrigates a small tea farm in Western Rwanda. This project will not only provide irrigation to the tea farm, it will also have capacity to aid in irrigation of nearby village farms and to provide water for family garden use all of which contributes to the local agribusiness environment. The Umutuzo Women’s Cooperative operates the farm. As a separate endeavor apart from this project, we intend to acquire adjacent property to increase the tea farm’s acreage. This project will build on the success of the initial water project by substantially increasing the capacity of the irrigation system. This will allow the cooperative to irrigate the larger farm area. Additionally, we plan to configure the distribution system to make water available for garden use to other farms and families in the vicinity. We will also take steps to improve water pressure at the delivery points. The new water delivery system will benefit not only the Cooperative but will also benefit the eight villages along the route of the system from its source. Farmers and others participating in local agribusinesses will benefit as they extend their growing season and will no longer have to haul water from a distant source during the dry season. This will enable children normally involved in water transportation to go back to school. Local farms and families will derive increased revenue and profit from irrigating additional acreage made possible by the expanded system capacity. This added profit will help lift families from poverty.

We had the chance to visit about 15 village primary schools in the Hilvan-Şanlı Urfa province during 5-6 February 2020, just before the breakout of pandemic in our country. Our aim was to investigate the physical conditions of schools and especially their toilets, taking into consideration hygienic conditions and reaching to water resources. Observations were made on living conditions of teachers and students regarding their habits and understanding of hygiene. We have observed that in all schools the toilets are added to the school building reachable from outside. All the schools have been constructed between the years 1950-70. We have also observed that the appointed teachers by the Ministry of Education are young and do not have enough experience regarding hygiene in the schools. In most of the toilets there were no soap available. The water sinks were unusable because of clogging. Girl students do not want to come to school during the menstrual period due to the conditions in their toilets. This is very common in rural areas in Anatolia. Most of the students did not have the habit of washing their hands and cleaning the facilities after using them. As a club we decided to start from one point and develop further by reaching other villages. Our aim is not to build new schools however build new Hygienic toilets and train the students accordingly by generating the necessary conditions. We are planning to prepare an hygiene Kit consisting of Soap, Tooth brush and paste, and a brochure prepared by our club on how to wash hands and keep clean with drawings. The students and teachers of the schools will benefit from the project. The students will take their cleaning habits back to their homes and families as well. The plan of the toilets to include three separate sections. Boys, girls, teachers and handicapped students. The section of teachers and handicapped students will be used commonly. We are also aware of the fact that Hygiene helps children to protect themselves from polio and other diseases also. We also select schools who has immigrant students which are mostly from Iraq and Syria.

Burkina Faso 20-Well Project – This project will provide new community water points in the commune of Fada N’Gourma, an area that is safe from terrorist activity, and that has seen an influx of over 40,000 IDPs in the past year. The project will benefit all members of the community, including women, children, elders, IDPs and longtime residents.

We had the chance to visit about 15 village primary schools in the Hilvan-Şanlı Urfa province during 5-6 February 2020, just before the breakout of pandemic in our country. Our aim was to investigate the physical conditions of schools and especially their toilets, taking into consideration hygienic conditions and reaching to water resources. Observations were made on living conditions of teachers and students regarding their habits and understanding of hygiene. We have observed that in all schools the toilets are added to the school building reachable from outside. All the schools have been constructed between the years 1950-70. We have also observed that the appointed teachers by the Ministry of Education are young and do not have enough experience regarding hygiene in the schools. In most of the toilets there were no soap available. The water sinks were unusable because of clogging. Girl students do not want to come to school during the menstrual period due to the conditions in their toilets. This is very common in rural areas in Anatolia. Most of the students did not have the habit of washing their hands and cleaning the facilities after using them. As a club we decided to start from one point and develop further by reaching other villages. Our aim is not to build new schools however build new Hygienic toilets and train the students accordingly by generating the necessary conditions. We are planning to prepare an hygiene Kit consisting of Soap, Tooth brush and paste, and a brochure prepared by our club on how to wash hands and keep clean with drawings. The students and teachers of the schools will benefit from the project. The students will take their cleaning habits back to their homes and families as well. The plan of the toilets to include three separate sections. Boys, girls, teachers and handicapped students. The section of teachers and handicapped students will be used commonly. We are also aware of the fact that Hygiene helps children to protect themselves from polio and other diseases also. We also select schools who has immigrant students which are mostly from Iraq and Syria.

WASH training 30 people 310 home biosand filters, 9 community bio-sand filters, in four communities western highlands of Guatemala.

SUBMISSION OF REQUEST WATER, HYGIENE AND SANITATION FUNDING SUPPORT

SUBMISION OF REQUEST WATER, HYGIENE AND SANITATION FOR FUNDING SUPPORT

The outcomes of this project will serve the people of Aguan Valley in Honduras by decreasing the child mortality rate and the mortality rate of women as a result childbirth. Updating the 23-year old structure of the Hogar Materno, bathrooms, kitchen, appliances, and furnishings will enable this valuable resource to continue to provide a sanitary dry place for women who must travel many miles from the rural countryside to a hospital in Tocoa to give birth. The Hogar Materno is a home that provides services to pregnant women just before and after childbirth. The Hogar has served over 41,000 women since it opened in 1998. In addition to providing a clean and dry place for the women to stay, the women also receive education in the importance of sanitation and hygiene – knowledge that they can take with them and teach their families and communities when they return home. Tocoa Rotary Club funded the startup of the Hogar Materno in 1996 as part of a country-wide effort to implement maternity homes to improve conditions for childbirth and reduce maternal and child mortality rates. The women who live and work in the fields of the Aguan Valley walk, or ride a mule, or ride in a cart, many miles to the hospital in Tocoa to give birth. The Hogar Materno, which is located next to the General Hospital, provides a sanitary place for these women to stay so that they may travel toward the end of their pregnancy, rather than while they are in labor. They can also stay at the Hogar after delivery if necessary to recover, or if their newborn is admitted to the neonatal unit for additional care. The women generally stay a few days before, and a few days after they give birth. While at the Hogar, the women receive prenatal and postnatal care from professionals at the hospital. They also receive education on sanitation and hygiene for themselves, their newborns, and their families. In Honduras, as is the case in most countries, high rates of maternal and child mortality result from inequities in access to health services. The poor and illiterate live mostly in rural areas where the women do not have access to basic obstetric care. As a result of maternity homes like the Hogar Materno, the child mortality rate has decreased from 44.3 per 1000 live births in 1996 to 16.8 in 2019. The mortality rate of women as a result of childbirth has also decreased from 85 per 100,000 live births in 2000 to 65 in 2017. With the help of volunteer nurses from the hospital, Hogar Materno is now providing education aimed to promote adolescents’ reproductive health and support childbearing preferences in an effort to reduce the adolescent birth rate which has hovered at 137 out of 1000 births to 15-19 year olds for the past 20 years. Along with our fellow rotarians at the Concord, Martinez, and Diablo View Clubs, the Pleasant Hill Rotary Club is partnering with Club Rotario Tocoa to update the Hogar Materno and ensure its sustainability to continue to provide health and sanitary support for the women of the Aguan Valley of Honduras.

This proposal is to provide water and stop preventable diseases in a rural community of Uganda. The community we propose to help is Dula village in Kei sub-county, Yumbe District, Uganda. Dula has 358 households (roughly 2000 people). We are raising $15,825 to provide water, sanitation, touchless handwashing stations, malaria eradication, and income generation. Currently, the only water source for the village is an open water hole shared with animals (shown below). The nearest borehole is in the neighboring village which is 5 kms from the households to access. 54 households do not have latrines. 115 Latrines collapsed due to heavy rains (see second picture below). Malaria is on an upswing this year. A nearby community reported a 61% malaria incidence rate in 2020. In the proposed project, Chris Roesel, who has an MPH from Johns Hopkins in international health and decades of WASH work in other countries, Jeff Morgan, a local Kansas plumbing company owner and board member of Plumbers without Borders, and CCEDUC, a local Ugandan NGO, with support from Eric Lehan, P.E., Civil/Sanitation Engineer and member of Engineers without Borders, will work with Dula to stop disease transmission by improving water, sanitation, hygiene, and malaria prevention and treatment infrastructure and supplies. The result will be that Dula saves thousands of dollars in medical expenses a year and hundreds of days of lost labor due to illness. The work will be a simple process. The process will be as follows: • Require upfront community contributions to the community leadership for the activities. • Meet and consult the leadership of the District Health Office (Roesel established this relationship last year). • Convene a community meeting and plan with the community, using the Future Search Conference methodology (futuresearch.net/methodology), condensed into two days. • Initiate baseline survey of water, diarrhea, malaria, and income. • Invite bids for state of the art work from local contractors. • Sign and supervise contracts. • Install at least one well and rainwater collection facilities. • Refurbish or rebuild latrines. Ensure malaria prevention (LLITNs) and treatment. • With support of TCP Global and VSLA.net, establish microloans group. Celebrate and conduct initial evaluation of work. • Impact will be evaluated one year later with support of DHO. The estimated cost of this project is $15,825, not including travel which will be paid for by team members.

Sustainable Clean Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Project for the village of Xetonox, Guatemala. Project involves providing a piped water system to each of the 171 households, gray water filters (i.e.- grease traps and a solar powered pumping system.

Install 2 water systems to extract water from Lake Victoria, purify it and supply clean water to two communities of 3,500 people each.

Providing access to safe water & sanitation facilities in Nambogo Primary School & Community

Provide access to safe water & sanitation facilities in Nambogo Primary School & Community

Provide Safe Drinking Water in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda. Drill borehole, install pump and filtration equipment, build security structure and solar power system to provide 5000 gallons of safe drinking water per day for the refugees in Nakivale.

In partnership with RC of Chowrenghee (Kolkata, India), the RC Metro NYC is applying for a GG to provide tube wells, public toilets, household toilets and showers in various villages in rural West Bengal, India where there is a real need for such facilities and infrastructure