This sounds weird but it is true, An indian village renamed itself as Snapdeal.com Nagar
after the online shopping website snapdeal.com. Snapdeal's CEO Kunal Bahl invested
$5000 in improving the water supply of the village. They installed 15 new handpumps within
50 m distance of every villager.
Kunal Bahl says:
We honestly did something very simple – didn’t even cost that much – and installed 15
hand
pumps, which now enable clean water within a distance of 50 meters for all the residents of
the village.
We must have spent a total of $5000 on getting this and the really cool part about this is
that these 15 hand pumps will give clean water to the villagers for the next 15-20 years!
Kunal also added,
There are 640,000 companies incorporated in India, many many of them much much larger
than ours. Assuming even 10% have the resources to do anything (and $5000 isn’t really a
lot), we can solve water problems for 64,000 villages and millions of people in India.
Something to think about.
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