With the community settling into their new
homes, one job outstanding was to provide solar energy to every home. This had
the dual benefit of not relying on the national power company to extend the
power supply and providing the community with clean and free energy.
As usual, in the eight months since OBRI
started the final phase of the village construction (Oct 2012), nothing got
done by the regional government departments. As a result the community is left
in the dark.
With the tenders only recently completed,
the contract to build the solar farm and network the village with power has
been awarded.
While the contractor is now at the village,
it will be about a month before the system is fully working. To help solve the
problem, OBRI sent in a team to rig up temporary street lighting for the
community.
Company Representative for OBRI Pak Ahim
was please to supply a generator, LED floodlights, 400 meters of cable,
posts and the fuel to run the genset. ‘This
is a temporary measure to help the community at night’, he said. ‘We hope the
contractor is able to finish on schedule but with the official opening of the
village on Friday 5th July we needed to step in and help again.”
There was a party atmosphere at the village
on Saturday as the OBRI team got the light working just as the sun was setting.
Special thanks to Pak Yasin of organising the team.
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