Produced by Kasapreko Company Limited, Awake Water, in marking the United Nations-backed Day organized a series of activities to make the Day a memorable one. The company paid courtesy calls on selected media and gave them free boxes of Awake Water, educated the general public on the importance of water through a street activation float and also giving out free Awake water to consumers at some locations.

As part of the Day’s activities, officials also donated free boxes of Awake Water to the Mamobi, Kaneshie and Madina Polyclinics which were given to patients at these health centres.

Speaking to media, the Director of Water and CSD at Kasapreko, Eunice Bonsu re-echoed the need for people to preserve water since its essential to saving lives citing Awake’s #One4Life initiative in which a pesewa or two pesewas on each bottle sold is given to the National Cardiothoracic Centre to cater for patients with hole in heart.

“Water is an essential commodity in our lives and we at Awake have decided to save lives using water. It is for this we brought on board the #One4Life initiative to support persons with heart defects since the heart is central to the body system,” Mrs Bonsu said.

The World Water Day is marked annually on March 22 and its about taking action to tackle the water crisis facing the world. This year’s theme was “Why Waste Water?”

It is estimated that about 1.8 billion people don’t have access to quality drinking water. The Day was officially designated by the United Nations in 1993.

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Source: Awake Water

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The gesture caters for the fourth quarter period of 2016 following a commitment to donate GH¢0.01 and GH¢0.02 made on each sale of Awake Water to support heart patients at the Cardio centre. This is the biggest donation made so far by Awake to the Centre.

Speaking on behalf of the distributors, Samuel Wilberforce Awuku-Darko, the National Sales Manager for Awake Water said its distributors are energized to boost sales of the water in order to increase their support for the Cardio Centre.

“Most distributors and street vendors in Accra have decided to sell more Awake Water to support the initiative”.

Director of the Cardio Centre, Dr. Lawrence Sereboe who received the donation commended the management of Awake Water for helping the centre in a more sustainable way.

Dr. Sereboe observed that people have come to appreciate the fact that the steps that have been taken by Kasapreko Company through the Awake Water #One4Life initiative to support the Cardio Centre is a worthy course.

According to the Cardio Director, the management of the centre have always made use of the donation from Kasapreko to take care of the needs of the centre.

Awake Water has so far donated GHc220,000 to the Cardio Centre and 16 heart patients have benefitted from the initiative. It is estimated that about ten people will benefit from the latest donation.

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Credit: Awake Purified Drinking Water

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