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RAIN WATER COLLECTION PROJECT
Baan Dada Children’s Home and Community Services
This project aims to collect rainwater during rainy season for the use of the children’s home in Huay Malai Sangklaburi, Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Program Director: Ricardo Zoleta
Baan Dada Children’s Home and Community Services
In Coordination with the Neo-Humanist Foundation
P.O Box 49, Sangklaburi, Kanchanaburi, 71240, Thailand
Tel: 034-688-037
Cell: 083-310-6058
Email: dadaramakrishna@gmail.com
Website: www.baandada.org
Total Grant Requested:
Total Project Cost: - Thai Baht (U.S. $1,000 -)
Project Name: Rain Water collection Project
Statement of Problem:
Sangklaburi, a north western part of Thailand, has almost six months of rainy season. This is due to the lush rain forest near the borders of Burma. Currently, Baan Dada Children’s Home has no rain water collection system for residential consumption. The buildings of the children’s home itself has a big roofing to collect enough rain water for use but due to lack of fund we could not install such a system.
Project Scope and Approach:
The project aims to install roof gutters on three buildings of the children’s home, and collect this water in tanks. The installation of roof gutters are to be sub contracted and the installation of pipes, filter systems, and tanks will be handled by the children’s home project manager.
Requesting Organization: Neo-Humanist Foundation
The Neo-Humanist Foundation, through one of its site projects in Huay Ma Lai named Baan Dada Children’s Home and Community Services (started in 1994) is currently undertaking a number of community development projects in neighboring areas. The community projects presently include an orphanage home known locally as Baan Dada Children’s Home, a growing children’s home weaving enterprise, a goat lending project, a Homestay Eco-Tourism livelihood project and a fish raising livelihood project in Piloki Village, an eye care outreach program, and The Vaccination Outreach Program for non-Thai children living within the borders Burma near Sangklaburi, Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
The Neo-Humanist Foundation is a non-profit organization that is registered (since 1990) with the Thai Ministry of Welfare (Registration number 5008).
The Neo-Humanist Foundation is affiliated with a global organization called AMURT (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team)
AMURT (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team): This organization deals with emergency relief work and the establishment of sustainable economic programs once the emergency has subsided. AMURT responded to the emergency needs of people living in Indonesia during the 2004 tsunami. Their activities included rebuilding the houses that were destroyed, setting up new schools, developing industries such as sewing, a brick factory, and sustainable agriculture. AMURT also responded to the recent natural disasters both in Burma and the Philippines and employed similar programs in both places. AMURT does not only restrict itself to emergency relief work, but is also involved in regular basic health and education outreach programs.
www.amurt.net
www.anandamarga.org
Neo-Humanist Foundation: Neo-Humanism is a social outlook based on the concept of “love for all created beings in this universe”. Several projects are established under this foundation, such as kindergarten schools, primary schools, technical school (India), children’s shelters, women’s programs, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Plants (PCAP).
http://nhf.org.in
http://nhe.gurukul.edu
Project Fund Requirement:
The total project cost amounts to 33,800.-baht. This would cover the contract for installing roof gutters, purchase of PVC pipes and valves, water filters, and plastic water tanks.
Project cost Table:
Item Description:
Roof Gutter Installation Contract: 90 meters at 200.00 baht per meter - Total: 18,000.00
3" PVC Pipe: 7 pieces at 420.00 baht per pc - Total: 2,940.00
Cotton Filter Roll: 12 pc at 350.00 baht per pc - Total: 4,200.00
3" PVC valve: 3 pc at 420.00 baht per pc - Total: 1,260.00
Plastic Water Tank: 1m dia x 1.2m H, 2 tanks at 3,700.00 baht per tank - Total: 7,400.00
Total Cost 33,800.00
Project Sustainability
Once the water collection system is installed it can last for a maximum of ten years with minimum maintenance. The annual 60% electricity saving for the duration of six months of rain is 21,600.- baht.
Project Beneficiary
The beneficiaries of this project is the residents of Baan Dada Children’s Home and Community Services. There are currently almost 60 children in the home.
Contact Information:
Ricardo Zoleta
Project Manager, Baan Dada Children’s Home and Community Services
Neo-Humanist Foundation
P.O. Box 49, Sangklaburi
Kanchanaburi, 71240. Thailand
Tel: 083-310 6058 (cell phone)
034-688-037 (landline)
Email: dadaramakrishna@gmail.com
Website: www.baandada.org
Appendices:
A.) Project Implementation Experience:
1. Vaccination Outreach Project: This program enables trained medics to access remote communities in Burma along the Thai-Burmese border and provides vaccinations and basic health care to ethnic minorities at risk. Since this program started in 2009 it has vaccinated over 2500 children.
2. Eye Care Program: This program brings eye care and distributes eye glasses to the people in remote communities. It also refers patients needing surgery to the nearby hospital. A partner organization and individual pays for the surgery if it is need. Since this program started in 2005 it has screened over 15,000 patients.
3. Children’s Home: Provides a shelter and education for disadvantaged and orphaned children of different ethnic groups including Karen, Mon, Burmese, and Thai.
4. Piloki Homestay and Community Development: Volunteers are sent to Piloki Village to help in the community, while experiencing life through the eyes of the villagers themselves.
5. Fish Raising Project: Fish pens were constructed and placed in the lake waters near Piloki Village where they are maintained by the local fishermen. The fish are sold to help the village attain self sufficiency.
6. Goat Raising/lending: Goats are lent out to families in need for the duration of time needed for the goats to reproduce. The family will keep the offspring while the original breeders are returned to the foundation afterwards.
7. Weaving Project: A cloth weaving project was started to help raise money raised for the Children’s Home.
8. Maintenance of 13 kindergarten school teachers in 6 villages within the borders of Burma.
B.) Projects Funded by various organizations and individuals:
1. Water and Electric Installation, Tractor American Women’s Club-Thailand
2. Goat Lending Project American Women’s Club-Thailand
3. Community Weaving Project New Zealand Aid
4. Children’s Home Construction American Women’s Club (partial funding)
Thai Gypsum Co. (partial funding)
5. Musical Instruments Lindsay Marsh, Zoleta family
6. Rubber Plantation Fundraiser Project Go MAD volunteer organization
7. Eye Care Program Unite For Sight and Dr. H. Friedrich
8. Piloki Fish Raising Project BCTFN organization
9. Teacher’s Allowance for Refugee Camps Amicus Foundation
10. Partial Funding – Vaccination Program British Women’s Group (BWG)
11. Medical Clinic & Medic Salary Amicus Foundation
12. Children’s Shelter Roofing Amicus Foundation
13. Salaries for teachers in Burma Amicus Foundation
14. Vaccination Program /partial funding The British Women’s Group, Thailand
15. Vaccination Program Fillopo and Ester Bellesia, Italy
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Help Improve a Health Centre in India!
Funding Request - 2011
The Abha Seva Sadan Multitherapy Health Centre is located near Bokaro, India
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It is a charitable rural health care project, combining |
For a full project description click here
What is our request?
Approximate 200 feet of our compound boundary is a temporary fence of 2-3 lines of barbed wire and cement or wooden posts. In many places this fence is breaking apart and no longer offering protection of our compound (incl. the medicinal and nutritional herb garden against cows, goats, dogs, etc. With $1,000 we would be able to replace approximate 150 feet of this fence with a stronger permanent one consisting of 5 rather than 3 lines of barbed wire and thicker concrete posts.
Myanmar Cyclone Emergency - school uniforms distribution
Myanmar (Burma) was hit hard by cyclone Nargis on May 3, 2008. It was the worst natural disaster in East Asia since the tsunami of 2004. Most of the 25,000 known deaths occurred in the southern Irrawaddy river delta region. Unofficial estimates put the deaths at 100.000+.
Officials said the majority of people were killed by a tidal surge 12 ft (3.5m) high. Towns in the Irrawaddy delta were completely flooded and approximately 1,5 million people were made homeless. The old capital Rangoon was without electricity and received enormous damage to is infrastructure.
Our partner organization, AMURT, had volunteer teams on the ground and sent in overseas experts and coordinators. In the first phase distribution of food and medicine was AMURT's immediate priority. AMURT's tried and tested system of making assessment on a family by family basis effectively identified the most vulnerable sectors of the society.
Foundation Emanuele Antola granted a Microdonation to finance the distribution of school uniforms by AMURT to the children affected by the May 3rd, 2008 Cyclone in Myanmar (Burma).
Below is the letter received from the Project Manager.
AMURT continues to work in the area and we are still accepting donations to our Bank Account or online by clicking on the button below.
Donations in Swiss Francs
Myanmar Cyclone Update - II
We have received the following good news from our partner organization, AMURT, who is working in Myanmar (Burma).
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G o o d N e w s R e p o r t
AMURT and AMURTEL Burma Response
Monday, 2 June 2008
Our MASS DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD ITEMS is in full swing. The food insecurity in the Delta is continuing. In spite of regular deliveries by some organizations along the main roads, there are innumerable pockets of villages that are so remote that they never received any aid.
For food distribution, AMURT operates as a wellwisher (donor) through local individuals and community groups that we know and trust. We purchase the food items (rice, pulses, cooking oil, molasse and salt) in bulk quantities which are then rationed into family-size bags.
These food packages are then passed on to our trusted local friends who do the distribution. Foreigners are still not allowed to go to the cyclone-hit delta areas.
Our priority is to tackle the villages that are logistically challenging to reach. Our distribution teams have to negotiate small side rivers within the Delta area to reach out to very poor communities. So far, we have been supplying food to the people in 4 districts townships (Kungyangon, Dedaye, Kyaiklat and Pyapon).
To date, our local distributors have transported by land and by sea approximately:
· 180 metric tons of relief items;
· to 12 communities;
· for 3,380 families, i.e. 18,000 + beneficiaries;
· at a cost of 27,000 USD.
By God’s grace, they have never had any trouble at the military check-points. The trucks travel with many security guards - 17 in total - so the question of confiscation does not arise!
Abha Seva Sadan Multitherapy Charitable Health Centre
The project was a recipient of a Micro-donation from the Foundation Emanuele Antola in the year 2007. We were very happy with what they are doing and we plan to continue supporting it in the year 2009. You can donate to this project or if you have medical skills you are welcome there as a volunteer.
1. Project Description:
A charitable rural health care project, combining multi-disciplinary conventional and alternative medical outpatient services with health education programmes in the villages of the community.
2. Area where it is located:
In the state of Jharkhand in northeastern India, close to the border to W. Bengal. This rural region is amongst the most neglected and underdeveloped in India. The project is 15 km outside of Bokaro Steel City, an industrial town, from which it has good access via a connecting large road.
3. Project History:
The project started in April 2005 with the purchase of 0.9 acres of undeveloped land. During the following weeks several medical camps were held on the land using tents. Within 2 months a small temporary clinic building was constructed, so that regular outpatient services could commence in acupuncture, homeopathy and allopathy (Western medicine). Due to financial limitations, until present acupuncture is held 3 days a week, homeopathy 5 days a week and allopathy one day a week.
In August 2005 water hygiene programmes were started in the surrounding villages, which have continued in regular intervalls until present: the villagers are shown how to disinfect their drinking well water cheaply and effectively using bleaching powder (chlorine), and how to kill breeding parasites by spraying diluted phenyl into stagnant water areas.
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