Grant & Stone, a builders’ merchant with an electrical wholesale branch in Swindon, has partnered with one of the UK’s leading water cooler suppliers, AquAid to install watercoolers that make a difference in all 44 of its locations throughout the UK.
With each purchase of an AquAid watercooler, Grant & Stone automatically donated to The Africa Trust, which works to bring sustainable solutions to poverty in Africa, allowing for an Elephant Pump to be installed in Manicaland, Zimbabwe.
The pump, which will provide clean and fresh drinking water to hundreds of people in the province each and every day, is a modified version of a Chinese rope pulley system designed to lift water and is constructed and maintained using materials that are locally available in rural sub-Saharan African communities.
It is capable of producing up to 10,000 litres of clean water every day.
Ollie Leivers, branch manager at Grant & Stone electrical wholesaler in Swindon, commented: “By simply installing AquAid watercoolers into all our branches the company has been able to make such a difference to hundreds of people’s lives, and it’s fantastic to see the Grant & Stone water pump up and running.”
To date, AquAid has built over 8,000 Elephant Pumps across parts of Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe, and has donated in excess of £19 million to charity.
Fern Shaw from AquAid commented: “The positive knock-on effects of building these pumps will benefit the recipients for decades. Implementing these sustainable solutions is only possible thanks to the invaluable custom of businesses like Grant & Stone.
“We are delighted they chose to partner with us on this very worthwhile initiative and very appreciative of their sterling efforts in creating awareness around what their custom produces.”
