Corinthia Hotels Sponsors ‘Just a Drop’ Clean Water Project in Tanzania
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Corinthia Hotels Sponsors ‘Just a Drop’ Clean Water Project in Tanzania
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Category: Africa Indian Ocean - Tanzania -
This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2012-04-11
Alfred Pisani, Founder and Group Chairman of Corinthia Hotels and Corporate Patron of Just a Drop, the international water aid charity, has dedicated company funds to sponsor a project in Tanzania. The project will create water boreholes for the 30,000 inhabitants of Tabata-Bima in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, including 10,000 primary and college students, who will benefit from the clean water availability. The project started last month and is expected to be completed by June, 2012.
Mr. Pisani announced the Tanzania water project while on a visit to New York, where it was discussed in detail with H.E. Mwanaidi S. Maajar, Tanzania’s Ambassador to the US in Washington, DC, Karen Hoffman, President, The Bradford Group and Tanzania Tourist Board representative in the US, and Tony Potter, Corinthia Hotels Board Member.
“Corinthia wanted its first year of commitment to directly support community driven projects in Africa,” said Mr. Pisani, “like this one in Tabata-Bima in Dar es Salaam, providing a long term sustainable benefit to the community and directly helping to give children the gift of life and good health.”
H.E. Mwanaidi S. Maajar in thanking Mr. Pisani, noted: “Although Tanzania is a country that is experiencing a fast–paced economic growth and booming tourism, without clean water, these communities will not benefit from this growth.”
In its 50th year of operations, Corinthia Hotels has today become an internationally-acclaimed brand of award-winning luxury hotels located in some of Europe’s finest cities, including London, St. Petersburg, Budapest, Lisbon and Prague. Corinthia Hotels formally adopted Just a Drop as its official charity in 2011.
Just a Drop’s Founder & Chairman, Fiona Jeffery, OBE, said, “We are delighted that Corinthia, led by Alfred Pisani, is closely involved with the urgent work of Just a Drop. He accepted our invitation to become a patron and is demonstrating his personal commitment to become involved in helping lift youngsters and their families out of terrible poverty, where even clean water to drink, cook and bathe is otherwise totally lacking.”
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