BAT Bangladesh launches new CSR initiative
Sunday, 21 March 2010
British American Tobacco Bangladesh has embarked on a new CSR initiative called PROBAHO as the company launched a safe drinking water plant at Bheramara in Kushtia district recently.
BAT Bangladesh's new initiative is to provide communities with safe drinking water in arsenic prone areas, prompting the Company to launch PROBAHO.
BAT Bangladesh has taken this initiative to help the community where it operates by providing them with safe drinking water to complement development efforts made by the Government to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Water and sanitation is a critical factor to achieve the MDGs by 2015, said a press release.
As a part of PROBAHO, the safe drinking water initiative, BAT Bangladesh has so far installed 6 filtration plants to make water free from arsenic and other harmful contents. The other PROBAHO plants are located in Manikganj, Satkhira, Jhenidah, and Meherpur districts. All the six plants are providing approximately 25,000 litres of pure water that can meet the demand of around 12,000 people in one day.
BAT Bangladesh Board Members led by Mr Golam Mainuddin, Chairman, formally inaugurated the plant. Other members of the Board including Mr Dewan Zakir Hussain, Secretary, Ministry of Industries; Mr Kamrul Hasan, Secretary, Ministry of Defence; and Mr Md. Humayun Kabir, Managing Director, Investment Corporation of Bangladesh, were present at the inauguration.
BAT Bangladesh has launched PROBAHO using SIDKO Water Filtration Unit, which is a government approved community based technology.
BAT Bangladesh's new initiative is to provide communities with safe drinking water in arsenic prone areas, prompting the Company to launch PROBAHO.
BAT Bangladesh has taken this initiative to help the community where it operates by providing them with safe drinking water to complement development efforts made by the Government to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Water and sanitation is a critical factor to achieve the MDGs by 2015, said a press release.
As a part of PROBAHO, the safe drinking water initiative, BAT Bangladesh has so far installed 6 filtration plants to make water free from arsenic and other harmful contents. The other PROBAHO plants are located in Manikganj, Satkhira, Jhenidah, and Meherpur districts. All the six plants are providing approximately 25,000 litres of pure water that can meet the demand of around 12,000 people in one day.
BAT Bangladesh Board Members led by Mr Golam Mainuddin, Chairman, formally inaugurated the plant. Other members of the Board including Mr Dewan Zakir Hussain, Secretary, Ministry of Industries; Mr Kamrul Hasan, Secretary, Ministry of Defence; and Mr Md. Humayun Kabir, Managing Director, Investment Corporation of Bangladesh, were present at the inauguration.
BAT Bangladesh has launched PROBAHO using SIDKO Water Filtration Unit, which is a government approved community based technology.