Pacific borehole rehabilitation project a game changer
The Pacific Limited group says that the efforts of the company in complimenting government initiative of borehole rehabilitation project has saved trillions of hours in labour time for women and girls in search of clean portable water.
Abdul Majid Ali, the vice team leader for the free Pacific group borehole rehabilitation project, disclosed this in Machinga north east constituency after fixing some of the boreholes who have not been working for close to 20 years at Mlanje group village head man in the district.
In an interview Abdul Majid called for a collaborated effort in ensuring that the people in the country are drinking safe and clean water.
He reasoned that the country would be more productive with time saved if more boreholes and taps are working.
Abdul Majid therefore urged the people around the areas where this project is being implemented to keep 3 people to learn how to fix the boreholes with them so as to transfer this skill.
Pacific group free borehole rehabilitation project’s has been on- going since the year 2015.
As a part of social corporate responsibility the company has repaired for free around 7000 boreholes in 110 constituencies across all regions of the country.
On his part the Member of Parliament for Machinga North East constituency, Ajiru Kalitendere commended the Pacific group borehole rehabilitation project saying it has served his people in his constituency.
According to Kalitendere, his constituency is one of the big constituencies in the country saying before the project it was a big challenge for women to search portable water.
He further said that they have been relying upon running rivers in the process risking their lives to water borne diseases.
The timely intervention by Pacific has saved the government a lot of money in the form of medicine for would be patients of water borne diseases.
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