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Project 'Right To Go' Rural Sanitation by Rotary Club of Thane Hills, Rotary International District 3140, India.

Rotary Club of Thane Hills, under the able leadership of Rtn. Atul Bhide as the Club President, launched this need based project in Rotary Year 2013-14. Under this project, in the first year itself the Club constructed 210 Toilet blocks for 210 homes in Sogav village, taluka Shahapur, District Thane in India.

200 Toilets were built through the Global Grant of Rotary Foundation. Rtn. Dr. Renuka Desai and her Rotary Club, RC Cherry Hill, RID 7640, New Jersey, USA contributed for this project as the Foreign Matching Club.

Apart from the construction of toilet blocks, training and counselling especially for the school kids for better sanitation habits by Rotary Club of Thane Hills helped this project on the sustainability.

The first project was highly successful and got worldwide acknowledgement at various forums, including President Atul Bhide being featured in The Better India as '68 Modern-Day Heroes Who Continue To Free India In So Many Incredible Ways'

The project was also published in Rotary International's official magazine Rotary News in November 2014.

Department of Post, Government of India too acknowledged the importance of this project by releasing a Special Cover and Special Cancellation on project Right To Go, on 26th June, 2014.