Lotus Sculpture Charity Water Project for 2 Schools

During December of 2005 Lotus Sculpture collected donations for a project to bring clean drinking water to schools in Tamil Nadu, India.  We managed to raise $600 from private donations as well as contributed $1000 ourselves. 

The other schools were not chosen for the project because of poor maintenance of earlier donated projects.  For instance their was a project named “Creed” Association that supplied most schools in the area with water tanks and pumps.  In some of the schools we visited the pumps were not maintained and thus they no longer work.  We did not wish to rehabilitate these pumps if they would only fall into disrepair soon after.  The two schools we have chosen will maintain the pumps given.

School 1 Van Rayan Petta  In this public school there was previously no drinking water available.  Here we supplied a new water tank.  Newly installed all piping, water pump and faucets. 

In the school there are 350 -400 students and 11 teachers.

Van Rayan Petta school title "Most backward underprivileged class"

The new water tank and pipes

The new water pump

School 2 Cengal Medu which is also the name of the village  Previously there was no running water and no taps for toilet or for drinking.  They carried buckets.  Here we installed a new water pump and water lines from the tank.  The government supplied water tank was renovated  and we did minor repair to the drinking area and the toilet area.

We used plastic taps for the drinking area because metal taps can be stolen and sold for scrap metal.

In the schools there are 250 children grades 1^st to 8^th and 6 teachers.  The school is 10 KM from Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu.   

The children in front of the newly renovated drinking area	The new drinking faucets which did not work before.
The schools children in front of the water pump	The water pump was put inside the classroom to insure it is not stolen.

We are making preparations to find other schools that may need drinking water.  We have also started the process of providing these two schools we have already assisted with a working library. 

If you would like to make a donation please contact Kyle at info@lotussculpture.com or
call him at 1(866) LOTUS-12 or 203-629-0902

I would like to thank everyone who has helped out with this project, (especially Aruneshvaran and T. Norry) as well as our previous project of donating fishing nets to a fishing village who lost everything in the 2004 tsunami.
Kyle