To give the populace access to clean, drinkable water, superstar singer Ayra Starr of the Mavin Records label donated a borehole to the Orimolade Community in Ifako Ijaiye, Lagos.
Twenty years after the community suffered from a lack of access to safe and drinkable water, the borehole donation is being made as part of her “E Dey Rush Community Outreach” initiative in collaboration with the Global Charity Initiative and Hope Spring Water Charity.
The Orimolade community’s residents haven’t had access to clean, drinkable water for almost twenty years.
“Access to clean, drinkable water should be a basic right for everyone,” noted music icon Starr in her remarks about the initiative.
In these little towns without access to water, I simply want to be able to lessen the burden on as many people as I can. While it may not seem like much, the inconvenience of going without water for even a day would be extremely apparent to you.
And the least of the consequences is most likely that inconvenience. Lack of easy access to clean water has detrimental effects on people’s health.
She stays aware of the conditions faced by many marginalized people on her birth continent even though she is traveling the globe. She started the E Dey Rush campaign to bring water to areas that haven’t had access to this crucial social resource to ease some of their hardships and have a positive effect.
Since her 2021 release through the music label Mavin Records, the 21-year-old star has become one of the most prolific acts in African music. Away, Bloody Samaritan, Rush, and her most recent single, “Commas,” are just a few of the successful singles she has achieved.
The community’s and the partners’ cooperation received high marks from the project coordinator, Chinemerem Nworisa.
In addition to being located at Awoni-Murphy Street, Nworisa claims that the borehole will also help nearby streets like Awe Street and Baoku Street.
He revealed that local people worked with the project team. One of the community’s longtime residents, Mrs. Oluwatoyin, donated her land for the project.
He said that to facilitate the installation of a water tank and a borehole, the civic-minded person was pleased to take down the store she had established on the property.
He continued, “Young people in the neighborhood were also more than willing to chip in and support the project until its completion.”.
He said that the management of the structure has been given to the Hope Spring Water Charity.
We are happy to have had a part in bringing this project to fruition. We are grateful to the community for being welcoming and supporting our efforts, as well as to Hope Springs Charity for their support, he said.
Speaking on the development, a middle-aged community member named Mrs. Dot Ajayi stated, “We have been suffering from this lack of water for the past 20 years.”. “We have to pay local contractors a lot of money to get water, or we have to wake up at two in the morning to fetch in neighboring communities.”
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