Globally renowned appliances and electrical goods brand, Binatone, has sponsored “Project MAJI” in putting up a rural water plant in the Central Region.
This is the second sustainable rural water plant project launched in Antsenbua 2, a village under the Komenda District in the Central Region.
This follows the successful installation of the first plant in Atentan under the Assin Foso North district of the Central Region of Ghana on World Water Day.
The” Project MAJI” solution is a simple yet clever 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.
Thus, the pump is powered by its own source of energy, unlike a hand pump. A “Project MAJI” well is capable of pumping 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.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Project MAJI, Sunil Lalvani, explained the vision behind his project saying, “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 continued that “this venture started, after I read a couple of articles about water issues in Africa that enlightened and encouraged me 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.
What concerned me most during the research phase was the amount of hand pumps that had been deployed in villages that had been become dysfunctional during my visit to the community. I made it a core goal of “Project MAJI” not to only provide and install water plants, but also to maintain them.”
Sustainability in all aspects is central to the Project MAJI mission he said, adding that “with great thanks to the sponsorship of Binatone, we now have two functional sites and have proven our concept so that we now look to rapidly scale up and deploy further afield … our goal is to serve 1 million people with fresh Project MAJI water.”
At the opening ceremony, 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.”
Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, the Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural development who was at the opening praised the plant, the technology and the achievement and acknowledged the need for such interventions, especially in rural areas, and called for more Public Private Partnership appreciating that the government is unable to achieve that level of penetration on its own.
Dr. Stephen Nana Ato Arthur, Member of Parliament for Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA), the chief of the area as well as other officials who were present graced the occasion and thanked “Project MAJI” and Binatone for this social project.
Source: Binatone Ghana