Water plant for school at Kollumedu

Rtn. Tim Johnson had confirmed that his club and district would provide USD 2000 for the water treatment plant at Kollumedu school. The water sample has been taken from the school premises by Jose mathew and has also been tested. The water treatment plant will be ordered for and installed in the school hopefully before the schol re opens after the summer holidays.

The school children have never had safe drinking water in this school and this plant when installed will provide pure drinking water for the school children.

Once the toilet project is taken on and completed, a major step would have been taken in bringing the facilities in the school to reasonable levels in terms of water and toilets. A lot more work has to go in to making this school an institution with reasonable facilties.

Water treatment plant for Kollumedu school

Our President Jose and I visited the Kollumedu school with the objective of inspecting the site for providing them with a plant for drinking water. Rtn Tim Johnson has kindle consented to raise the funds required to provide the school with a water treatment plant. We will have the plant installed at the school during the summer holidays and ensure its readiness when the school reopens.

The water treatment plant is a must for this school as the sample tested in a labaratory indicates that the water provided at the school is not safe and needs to be treated before consumption.

Sad news - 2 MG applications denied

2 MG applications made by us have been denied by TRF. We now need to get these applications readied and resubmitted on 1st July 2009, whe the new Rotary year starts.

The Kollumedu school is suffering without basic amenities and sadly they will have to wait for some more time.

Kollumedu school progress

The plans for the toilet block are ready. We have also received estimates for the construction and find that the total cost will be about Rs 8 lakhs. This is over the MG amount by Rs 1 Lakh and I now need to find additional sponsors so the project can go through smoothly.

The water treatment plant is also expected to be installed at the same time the toilets are being constructed.

A water sample has been drawn from the school premises and given to the water treatment company who will after analysis decide the type of plant to be installed.

There has been progress but little in real terms to show the villagers who do nto understand the paperwork, they are used to delays and understand that but not the paperwork.

Progress for Kollimedu school toilet project

Have received information from Rtn Tim Johnson that the Matching Grant application has been approved by his District and that his club members are enthusiastic about the project.

Mani will shortly provide the estimates for the toilet and Jose for the water treatment plant.

Once these are received the application will be prepared and sent off. The deadline for this is the 25th of this month.

Mani Iyer inspects school at Kollumedu

Saturday, the 27th of December saw Mani Iyer (Architect) and myself going to Kollumedu to inspect the school for the toilet project. This project is going to be a MG project with the RC of Medford Rogue thanks to Rtn Tim Johnson.

Mani inspected the site, took measurements, assessed the needs of the school, the environment, location and more. It looks like that the toilet project is going to cost about 6 to 7 Lakhs. Existing toilet (only shell) may have to be demolished and a new building constructed.  We will know for sure when Mani gets his hand on the Drawing Board.

The villagers are getting excited and find that there is a silver lining to every dark cloud.

Great News from Rtn. Tim Johnson

I have just received an email from Rtn Tim that his club will do a matching Grant with us for the school at Kollumedu. Once the details are finalised there will be more posts here and more news.

At this stage what i can say is that we will be able to not only complete the toilets for the school but also take care of their drinking water needs and maybe some furntiure for the teachers and students.

Kollumedu School

When Tim was visiting I had take him to a school in a village (Kollumedu) about 30 Kms from Madras. The school is in bad shape and lacks basic infra structure such as toilets, drinking water, leave alone furniture for classrooms etc.

Tim just sent in an email stating that he has discussed this school project with his club and that they would be happy to do a District Simplified Grant amounting to a total of USD 4000.

With this we will be able to provide toilet facility for the school.

Mani Iyer our architect member is traveling in Australia and as soon as he is back I will be taking him to the school to understand how we can provide them with a toilet block.

I have given a link above to my picasa album where you can view some pics of the school.