Project Description Region: South-East Asia Country: India Location: Bidadhi Total Budget: $35,750 Areas of Focus: Disease prevention and treatment, Water, sanitation and hygiene, Basic education and literacy, Community economic development View Online Proposal Form This project provides funding for the economic upbringing and community development of the rural villages of Bidadhi near Bangalore, Karnataka state in the following areas. 1. Provide vocational training in Tailoring & Candle making. 2. Purchase Sewing machines and candle making tools to provide hands-on training and train them to be self-employed 3. Set up solar energy units for power generation at Rotary Cantonment Centenary building 4. Set up Bore well and water storage facility at the Rotary Cantonment Centenary building 5. Provide toilet accessories at the Rotary Cantonment Centenary building 6. Provide Micro credit for local women Self Help Groups 7. Provide Water filters for drinking water to 15 schools located in the village cluster. This project meets the following needs of the local community - Economic & Community development & Health 1. Training of women for self employment leading to income generation and women empowerment 2. Micro credit to self help groups mainly for purchase of Cows. Sale of milk provides reasonable monthly income 3. The Rotary Cantonment Centenary building after the addition of the facilities will serve as local outreach health center (in association with a local private hospital with whom RBC has signed a MOU). 4. Drinking water facility for school children All these are continuous sustainable projects. It is estimated that this project will take about 8-10 months to complete. Primary Host Partner District: 3190 Rotary Club of: Bangalore Cantonment Primary Contact: Sunil Pai Email: bspai@vsnl.com Primary International Partner District: 5340 Rotary Club of: Del Mar-Solana Beach Primary Contact: Mandyam Venkatesh Email: mandyamvenkatesh@gmail.com Project Status Completed This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by The Rotary Foundation. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners. Project listed for the 2013-14 Rotary Year. The TRF Grant application number is #16569.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Bangalore Cantonment (3190) 16-May-13 $1,000 $1,000 $2,000 Camp Pendleton (5340) 15-Jun-13 $1,000 $1,000 $2,000 E-Club of the United Services, San Diego (5340) 15-Jun-13 $1,000 $1,000 $2,000 La Jolla Golden Triangle (5340) 5-Sep-13 $1,250 $1,250 $2,500 La Mesa (5340) 5-Sep-13 $2,250 $0 $2,250 La Mesa Sunrise (5340) 13-Sep-13 $1,000 $1,000 $2,000 Del Mar-Solana Beach Sunrise (5340) 13-Sep-13 $4,000 $4,000 $8,000 Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation $5,750 $9,250 $15,000 Total $35,750

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [11-Jun-15] Progress report 5-31-15 [13-Jul-13] Village Training Ctr - Budget Details [13-Jul-13] Village Training Ctr - DMSB visiting Bidadhi SHGs [13-Jul-13] Village Training Ctr- Financing

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History Log Entries 16-May-13 by Mandyam Venkatesh System Entry: Creation of project page. 15-Jun-13 by Mandyam Venkatesh Project amount revised from $34k to $35k to meet TRF minimum $15k contribution requirement 15-Jun-13 System Entry Pledge of $1,000 with $1,000 DDF by Linda Sundram of the Rotary Club of Camp Pendleton, District 5340. 15-Jun-13 System Entry Pledge of $1,000 with $1,000 DDF by Larry Sundram of the Rotary Club of E-Club of the United Services, San Diego, District 5340. 5-Sep-13 by Mandyam Venkatesh The project is full pledged and request DDF approval so that TRF application can be completed. 5-Sep-13 System Entry Pledge of $1,250 with $1,250 DDF by Dory Beatrice of the Rotary Club of La Jolla Golden Triangle, District 5340. 5-Sep-13 System Entry Pledge of $2,250 by Mike Maskari of the Rotary Club of La Mesa, District 5340. 5-Sep-13 System Entry Project is now "Fully Pledged". 13-Sep-13 System Entry Pledge of $1,000 with $1,000 DDF by David Ballesteros of the Rotary Club of La Mesa Sunrise, District 5340. 13-Sep-13 System Entry Pledge of $4,000 with $4,000 DDF by Mandyam Venkatesh of the Rotary Club of Del Mar-Solana Beach Sunrise, District 5340. 13-Sep-13 System Entry Project reverted to "Published". 13-Sep-13 System Entry Project is now "Fully Pledged". 10-Oct-13 by Marge Cole This grant application was approved by the District Rotary Foundation Committee on 10/10/13. The DDF requested to match club donations has been approved by that committee. The grant may proceed to the Rotary Foundation application process. 6-Nov-13 System Entry Application Sent to The Rotary Foundation through Member Access. 16-Nov-13 by Mandyam Venkatesh Response to TRF including signed MOU from Bangalore Cant Host Rotary will be sent in the week of 11/18 3-Feb-14 by Mandyam Venkatesh A second round of email was sent in response to their additional questions and hopefully TRF will approve the application soon. 7-Mar-14 by Mandyam Venkatesh Finally after several iterations, we have the approval from TRF of this long awaited very worthwhile project for establishing a Village Training Center and give Micro Credit loans to the SHGs in India. I request the committed clubs send their contribution as soon as possible with proper documentation. Sorry for the delay 7-Mar-14 System Entry Application approved by The Rotary Foundation. 16-May-14 by Mandyam Venkatesh TRF has confirmed that all contributions are received.Bank account details were provided and TRF (Delhi Office)informed Host Rotary that funds will be sent to the account soon. 2-Aug-14 by Mandyam Venkatesh The Host Bangalore Cant Rotary received funds from TRF in June 2013 and making preparations for establishing the training center and also the micro credit portion of the project. 2-Aug-14 by Mandyam Venkatesh Sorry for the mistake in the proceeding history log. $35,750 was received in June 2014. 3-Aug-14 System Entry Payment has been issued by The Rotary Foundation. 4-Mar-15 by Mandyam Venkatesh The project is 80% complete. The solar Energy System is installed and operational. The Village Training Center is well set up and the 25 selected students were given hands-on training in tailoring and second batch is starting. First round of micro-credit funding was distributed and Host Rotarians are monitoring the progress. Project likely to complete by end of May 2015. 11-Jun-15 by Mandyam Venkatesh Progress Report as of May 31, 2015 has been uploaded in the TRF website and also in this website in the documents section for this Global Grant GG1416569 (G-471). The project is not complete. 3-Jan-16 by Mandyam Venkatesh The project is complete and we have completed the report. Unfortunately, our President Dr. Seymour Myers and the Host Rotary President are ready to sign, but are not able to. We have repeatedly requested help from Sara Mercer of Rotary International and hope she can soon resolve this authorization problem of this three month old report. 2-Aug-16 by Mandyam Venkatesh Progress Report was submitted in March 2016 to TRF and the final report is under preparation. The project is now complete. 17-Feb-17 by Mandyam Venkatesh Host Rotary in India has submitted the bank statement and utilization certificate and other documents to the Rotary International South East Asia Office and in the process of submitting the final report. 2-Sep-17 by Mandyam Venkatesh The project was completed in early this year and final report was submitted with all bank statements etc. TRF is currently reviewing the report and hopefully should close the project soon 2-Mar-18 by Mandyam Venkatesh The Indian Host Rotary rep Dr. Sunil Pai of Bangalore Rotary Club has given all the bank records, reports and responded to all questions raised by TRF and it is not clear what else they want and hope they close the grant soon. The project was completed 2 years ago with all reports, bank statements filed properly last year. 2-Oct-18 by Mandyam Venkatesh This Global Grant was completed and all reports submitted in 2016 and early 2017. There were some questions that TRF asked and Host Rotary has provided additional information and responded to all questions raised. It is not clear why TRF has not closed the Grant. 16-Apr-19 by Mandyam Venkatesh The Project report was submitted by Host Rotary (GG1416569, Closure Letter, RC of Bangalore Cantonment, D-3190) and the Rotary Foundation (India) on March 18, 2019 sent us an email saying - Thank you for submitting the final report for Global Grant GG1416569. The report has been reviewed and is complete. Rotary Foundation (India) will now mark the grant closed. Your cooperation in fulfilling this requirement is greatly appreciated. 16-Nov-19 by Mandyam Venkatesh This Global Grant was marked as "Closed" by TRF on March 18, 2019 and should be reported as closed as reported in the History Log in April 2019. There is no more additional report on this grant. 15-Jul-20 by Mandyam Venkatesh System Entry: Final Report sent to The Rotary Foundation. 15-Jul-20 by Mandyam Venkatesh System Entry: Final Report approved by The Rotary Foundation.