A meeting was scheduled today on 29th Nov 2016 with Coca Cola and UNDP at Rotary Head office. The meeting was attended by Usman Manzoor from UNDP, Natasha Haroon from Coca Cola, Aziz Memon, Asher Ali, Alina Visram and Shaukat Ali (from Rotary International). Purpose of the meeting was to brief the project activities done by the Rotary team and to discuss the future activities of the project. Brief presentation was made by Asher Ali which includes Success & challenges faced by teams during successful installation of Solar Water Filtration plant.
Till dated, Rotary has successfully installed & inaugurated two Solar Water Filtration plants while the third SITE has been also identified and selected by the management. Usman Manzoor gave his positive feedback over the presentation and suggested to take before and after lab reports of water sample of every selected site. Both the guests appreciated the work of Rotary team. It was also briefed that selected Sites are the most High Risk UCs of Karachi where hardly any development organization is present. For the installation of Solar Water filtration plants, Rotary have fully support of EOC (Emergency Operation Cell), UNICEF & WHO even SITES were also suggested by them.
After presentation, Site visit was scheduled along with UNDP & Cocacola team members. First stop was UC 2 Ittehad Town – Baldia Town where Solar Water Filtration plant is installed & benefiting thickly populated community. Second stop was UC 4 Gujro – Gadap Town where another filtration plant is benefiting outskirt population of Karachi. After the meeting with beneficiaries and monitoring activities, Medina Colony – Tora Bora was the last Site. Madina Colony is the third Site which is finalized for the installation of 3rd Solar Water Filtration Plant. At the end, guests praised the extra efforts of Rotary team to achieve the target on time.