Three villages in Poonakary (also known as Pooneryn) in the Kilinochchi District were gifted with purified drinking water facilities by Tokyo Cement Group in partnership with Re-Awakening Lanka.
Over two thousand residents in Veravil, Valaippaadu and Veerapandiyamunai, in Ponnaveli Grama Niladhari Division within the Poonakary AGA Division in Kilinochchi will now gain access to clean drinking water thanks to this project. The project was carried out under the patronage and guidance of the Poonakary Divisional Secretariat.
Director, Tokyo Eastern Cement Co./General Manager, Power & Energy E. Kugapriya led the Tokyo Cement Team who implemented the water purification solutions. This included refurbishing three existing wells and installing water pumps and tanks to store water for purification.
St. Anthony’s Hydro Division supported the project by designing a customized water purification solution after studying hydrology of the area. Based on the technical evaluation of groundwater quality, three Pure Hydro water purification solutions with Reverse Osmosis Technology were implemented at the three locations.
As part of this far-reaching humanitarian project, Tokyo Cement will also undertake to maintain and service the water purification plants during the first three years of installation by working closely with a community representative to ensure the sustainable upkeep of the system. The drinking water facility gifted to the people of Veravil, Valaippaadu, and Veerapandiyamunai fulfils a much-needed basic requirement of the thousands of people in the area.
Tokyo Cement Group sponsored the project with Appé Lanka, a rural development project by Re-Awakening Lanka involved in numerous social upliftment and village empowerment programs mainly focused on women and children in the North and East. This was possible because so many people and organizations contributed in numerous ways to make it possible.” The three villages, Veravil, Valaippaadu and Veerapandiyamunai has over 2000 residents belonging to 500 families whose livelihood is based on fishing and farming. Afresh-water Well situated in each village was used for cooking and cleaning purposes, fulfilling only a part of the water requirement of the people and that too was not available during the dry season.
Salinda Kandapola, Manager Corporate Sustainability at Tokyo Cement Co. (Lanka) PLC., commenting on this benevolent project said, “Water is one of the basic human needs and since most parts of our country is blessed with good quality drinking water, we tend to take it for granted. However, there are thousands of people who do not have access to potable water to fulfill even their basic requirements.”
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