Bangladesh - first installation of solar powered Villagepump

Our first solar powered Villagepump 500's  have been installed near Cox's Bazar in
Bangladesh.

The project was done in close collaboration
with BRAC Bangladesh. This densely populated area consists of refugee camps and
small villages. Sweet drinking water is sufficient available but unfortunately
has been bacteriologically contaminated, resulting in poor living conditions
for the local inhabitants. About 4,000 people in total have now access to safe
drinking water, which they had not before. With only pushing the button. The
power of sun takes care for the purification of the water!  Maintenance, management and monitoring of
these water-purifying devices is taken care of by our partner BRAC.

India - Savargaon, partly funded as CSR offset

Funding for our Villagepumps comes from different sources. It could be government or NGO or
aid-relief, the army or charity. But in India, there is another source. Commercial
businesses have an obligation to donate a certain amount of their nett profit
to social impact projects, as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility
policy. In Savargoan, India, a Villagepump was funded in this way, by a CSR
contribution by PubMatic India, with a nice reference as result:

"We are happy to share the successful installation and functioning of water purifier installed by Tej Urbantech LLP at Savargaon, Jamkhed Taluka, Nagar District in Maharashtra, India",
as stated by the Village Social Transformation Foundation, after the first 60
days of installation of a Villagepump in Savargaon, Maharashstra. "We
sincerely thank PubMatic India Pvt. Ltd., Shree Kasba Ganapati Samajik Sanstha
Pune and Tej Urbantech LLP Pune for facilitating the entire process towards the
installation. Looking forward to extending similar support in the future across
Maharashtra"

India - Elisabeth orphanage "kinderen van India"

The Dutch based foundation "Kinderen van India" has set up an orphanage in 1989 in
Pendra Road in the province Chhattisgarh (central India). The last two years
the number of cases of waterborn diseases increased sharply. In particular the
number of infectious diseases such as typhoid fever has risen sharply. The
drinking water is extracted from a well located on the property. This source
should provide clean drinking water but due to the many rains and the intensive
use of the land over the past period, probably bacteria has polluted the water.
After a succesfull installation of two Villagepump 500 Standard the water is now free of bacteria and the amount of waterborn diseases has decreased substantially. 

"The villagepumps are made in such a way that they are easu to operate. The village pumps purify our well water and the children use the purified water. The maintenance is also easy as the nuts and parts are available. Recently the Officier of the Forest Department told us that he was impressed by the Village pumps."

Rev. John Stish George, Director

Nepal - emergency aid

The April 2015 Nepal earthquake was the worst
natural disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake.
Hundreds of thousands of people were made homeless with entire villages
flattened, across many districts of the country. Meelan Gurung, Group Managing
Director of the Singaporese based company Acuatico Pte Ltd, wanted to do
something about this situation and decided to donate several Villagepumps 500
for the city of Kathmandu. These Villagepumps are plug-and-play and can be put into
operation on a short term. Within a few hours clean drinking water was
available for the affected population and soon the Villagepumps were used on a
daily basis, highly appreciated by the locals. 

Mali

Water is life, but what kind of water are we talking about? Kamani is a village in the Koulikoro
region in the south of Mali. Even with their feet in the water, the people from
this peaceful fisherman village have always suffered from a drinking water problem.
Like for a lot of Malian villages, the Niger river was the only water source,
but certainly not clean enough for drinking water. In Kamani, the Villagepump
is the symbol of a village in progress. According the village’s health officer,
this water purification system will without any doubt have a positive impact on
the life expectance of its inhabitants.

 Mr Issiaka: “As a native person from this village I can assure you that this is one of the most useful and
beneficial initiatives of the past decennium. Water is life and so life came
back to Kamani, making us very happy and we drink to the health of the partners
of Villagepump, Malibiocarburant and the inhabitants from Kamani. Thanks ones
more for providing maintenance and follow-up of this pump!”