By: Fred Yaw
Sarpong
The management of Binatone has sponsored the
commissioning of a second rural water plant (Project MAJI) at the Antsenbua 2,
a village in the Komenda District of the Central Region after the company.
This follows the successful installation of the
first plant in Atentan in the Assin Foso North District of the Central Region. These
water plants expected to relieve thousands of people from lack of proper
drinking water.
The ‘Project MAJI” solution using solar power to
pump water from deep boreholes with no reliance on outside sources of power
making this unit both independent and sustainable.
The pump is powered by its own source of energy,
unlike a hand pump. A “Project MAJI” can pump water from deeper sources, run
the water through a filtration system and provide up to 10,000 litres of clean
potable water to the people every day.
At the commission, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
and founder of Project MAJI, Mr. Sunil Lalvani explained that ‘‘we are excited
to have undertaken this social responsibility project with the aim of
liberating the communities from the scarcity of potable water and its
associated diseases.”
He said they took the initiative after they saw couple
of articles about water issues in Africa and that enlightened and encouraged them
by continuing to research more on the subject and became appalled by the
injustice of Water Poverty.
‘‘I became somewhat passionate to do something about
it. Using my business background and experience in the electronics industry, it
was relatively easy to put the knowhow together to create a sustainable potable
water plant designed for villages,’’ he added.
He said what concerned him most during the research
phase was the amount of hand pumps that had been deployed in villages that had
been become dysfunctional during his visit to some of the communities. ‘‘I made
it a core goal of “Project MAJI” not to only provide and install water plants,
but also to maintain them,’’ he stated, adding that sustainability in all
aspects is central to the Project MAJI mission.
Cutting the tape to officially opening the plant, Mr.
Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, the Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development
praised the initiators of the plant, the technology and the achievement and
acknowledged the need for such interventions, especially in rural areas.
He called for more Public Private Partnership (PPP)
appreciating that the government is unable to achieve that level of penetration
on its own, therefore need more partners.
The Managing Director of Binatone-Ghana, Mr. Venu
Babu mentioned that ‘‘it is a great pleasure to sponsor these noble projects as
part of our corporate social responsibility (CSR).”
Dr. Stephen Nana Ato Arthur, the Member of Parliament
for Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA), the Chief of the area as well as other officials
graced the occasion and thanked “Project MAJI” and Binatone for this social intervention.
Binatone was among the first few brands to provide 2
year product warranties to its customers in Ghana. Ghana chosen as the first
African market for the launch as the brand continues to celebrate its 40 years
in Africa and 20 years in Ghana.
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