Let End Water Scavenging —project Maji Boss
As part of measures to get more boreholes
drilled in the rural areas at affordable prices, that the Project Maji
Foundation has indicated its preparedness to make available solar-powered
boreholes for as low ten thousand Dollars in the country.
The Project Imaji Foundation claimed that
technology can be used to solve this age long activity of water scavenging in
the rural areas of the country.
Speaking at a press conference in Accra,
the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the foundation, Sunil Lalvani said it
saddens his heart when children of school going age have to trek long distances
scavenging for water when there is technology to make their lives better.
He said over eighty hundred million people
in the world lack safe water and out of this number three hundred and fifty
million lives in Sub-Saharan Africa.
‘’It is about time something significant is
done to provide safe water for these less privileged people that the project
was birthed he explained.
He minces words to say that eighty percent
of all hospital admissions in the world are occupied by people with water borne
diseases.
He explained that the project intends
reaching out to one million rural people in the country by the end of the year
2025.
He noted lack of clean water in the
villages can make people very unproductive as they spend long hours looking for
water for their household chores.
He said ‘’ our technology allows us monitor
our entire project remotely from our cell phones’.
This, he said will ensure that the sites
remain functional even after the managers have left.
In a related development, the Head of
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Volta River Authority (VRA), Sam
Flecther said the solar-powered boreholes are need in the rural areas to save
lives in the rural areas.
According to him, sixty to ninety-four
percent of people around the Volta River have Bilharzia because of lack of save
water.
He said the project can be used to prevent
rate at which people get infected by this diseases in these areas.
Background
Project Maji Foundation, a non-profit
foundation, with Indian technology which focuses on creating sustainable access
to safe drinking water in the rural communities.
The project since its inception in Ghana
has provided fifteen thousand accesses to safe water and will this week open
nine new sites in addition to the already existing ones.
Water scarcity is one of the leading
problems affecting more than 2.1 billion people globally. Approximately three
in ten people worldwide lack access to safe water and readily available water
at home.
Access to clean water continues to cause
illness and stifle growth in emerging countries.
While Ghana has made progress, many
communities still do not have access to safe drinking water.
It is in view of this, that the project has partner with organizations such as Binatone, Shalina, Volta River Authority, World Vision, Melcom and Poly Group.
Source:checkoutghana.com
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