Many projects not only involve club members in raising funds but also in visiting projects overseas and working with local people to help complete the work.

Here are some of the many projects that Elgin Rotary Club has and is supporting

Water Projects

2011-13  New project in Surjaha, Jiredi & Kadesh

2009-11 Nepane & Simle

2007

Treks To Build with the Nepal Trust

2000 Humla  

 Click the link above for professional quality video of the Nepal Trust at work produced, filmed & edited by local professional filmmaker Anna McPherson www.recitefilms.com

Nepal Water Projects

A New Appeal

In 2009/10, 31 clubs in District 1010, in partnership with NEWAH (the Nepal Water For Health Group) and the Rotary Club of Himalayan Gurkhas, with the support of District 1010 and Rotary international grants, transformed the lives of 2 communities in distant Nepal through the provision of Water, Sanitation and Health & Hygiene programmes.

Find out here about Nepane and Simle and how 855 people in 133 households and 499 pupils in 2 schools have benefitted!

THE NEED REMAINS!

A further 3, even poorer communities in Nepal, have now been identified by NEWAH for our assistance.

Together, with the villagers of Surjaha, Jiredi and Kadesh, Rotary Clubs in District 1010 can make dreams come true for 2087 people in 320 households, 148 of which are ultra poor and 293 pupils in 2 schools. The need is pressing, download pictures of these communities here.

WHAT CAN BE ACHIEVED THROUGH ROTARY’S SUPPORT?

• 73 tap stands
• 100 latrines
• comprehensive health& hygiene programmes

And so much more….!

• Ready Access to safe drinking water
• No more spending 3 hours a day on water collection from unsafe sources
• School toilets, enabling teenage girls to continue with their education
• Radically reduced levels of illness and diarrhoea
• No more open defecation
• Hand washing becomes the norm
• Radically improved kitchen hygiene
• Managed waste disposal
• Development of kitchen gardens and other opportunities to generate income
• Community specialists trained in health advice
• Community working together in common commitment and new confidence
• Sustainable provision, funded and managed for future needs

WHAT DOES ROTARY NEED TO DO?

Rotary needs to raise c $85,000 or £50,000 with the villagers also contributing their time and resources. Full details of the projects are here with a financial summary here

Grants are being pursued, leaving a target of c £22,000 to be raised through cash donations. The sum of £6,000 has already been raised towards this target.

With your Club’s support, together we can transform the lives of these 3 so needy communities in distant Nepal…. Together we can make their dreams come true!

To arrange a presentation to your club about these compelling projects or to find out more, please contact Alistair Campbell, galistaircampbell@hotmail.co.uk Tel 01343 543593(home) or 01343 563398(work)

Following the success of the Club's last water project (see below), it has been decided to co-ordinate another project with NEWAH (Nepal Water for Health) in the more remote Gorkha region of Nepal which lies between Kathmandu and Mount Everest.

The Nepane project has been costed at Nrs 2,778,953 ($44,110) by NEWAH our technical advisors in Nepal. The funds raised including a donation of $10,000 from District Funds and a Matching Grant of $16,206 from Rotary Foundation exceeded the needs for the Nepane project. As a result it was decided to seek the approval of donor clubs to fund a second similar project in Simle with a net donor cost of $34,703. This project will deliver 13 tap stands and 45 latrines to a population of 334 in 47 households with one school.

Along with the Nepal Trust, Elgin Rotary Club organised a trip of a lifetime to Nepal to visit the Nepane & Simle project sites and to see some of the natural and cultural wonders of Nepal. The trip departed on the 31 October returning on the 14th November 2010.

Click here for a Report on the Visit with photographs and a Detailed Itinerary.

Click here to download the final official report with photographs on the completed Simle Water Health & Sanitation (WASH) project.

	Top Left: One of the new latrines provided by the project. Above: Local villager thanks Rotary for the gift of clean water for cooking, drinking and washing. Left: A hand hygiene poster used to educate adults & children about the need to wash their hands. Below: Simle children take advantage of fresh clean water.

In 2000, Rotarians from Elgin joined with others to spend 5 weeks trekking with the Nepal Trust to the village of Kermi in north-west Nepal to help build a health post. The Humla region is one of the poorest in Nepal with high infant mortality, low life expectancy and difficulties delivering health-care due to its remoteness. Whilst there, Dr Donald Brown with his wife Anne visited health posts and villages and ran health clinics and trained local health workers. Engineer, Finlay Weir surveyed local hot springs to assess their suitability for use by villagers for their own  needs and as a business supplying trekkers with hot water for washing. Finlay also entertained his fellow trekkers and the Nepalis by playing his bagpipes.

For general information on Nepal go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal : http://www.nepalinformation.com/ : https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/np.html

For news on Nepal go to http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/main.htm                                     

To read more about the Nepal Trust go to http://www.nepaltrust.org/ or click the link on the right for a film of the NT at work

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