Associated Labels completes African well project

Associated Labels, in celebration of World Water Day, observed annually on March 22, has completed a year long water project that the company hopes will inspire activism and public service at both a corporate and individual level.

Rusty Ashworth, president of Associated Labels, said: ‘We are committed to making a difference in the world. Our goal was to drill and build a water well in the East African village of Kagulu in Uganda. The village of Kagulu and its people lack access to any clean and safe drinking water. As a result, many women and young girls in this rural Sub-Saharan African village, as with other parts of the world, must trek as far as 15 kilometers everyday to retrieve water for their families.’

Due to this manual labor, Ashworth explained, ‘such women and children are prevented from pursuing an education, maintaining their households or earning additional income.’ It was with this in mind that Ashworth realized there was, ‘a huge opportunity for Associated Labels, as a company, to have an enormous impact on this very vulnerable community.’

Associated Labels’ funded water well is now complete and fully functional. ‘It's incredible to see the positive human impact this work has had on our company as well as this village worlds away,’ Ashworth said. ‘Through our efforts, our water well has made clean drinking water accessible 24 hours a day.’ Not only has this project brought clean drinking water to a community in need, it will also lead to improvements in health, sanitation, education, gender equality, and increased economic development.

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