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Solar water kiosk project expands from 1 Ghana village to 3 countries

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September 29, 2026

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Project Maji began after founder Sunil Lalvani saw children drinking from a puddle during a trip to Ghana in 2015. Drawing on his electronics background, he installed a solar-powered water kiosk in Atintan that March. The first site provided clean water to about 1,200 people, according to the organization, according to a Times of India report.

What began as a project under Lalvani's family business has expanded into a nonprofit water initiative. In its 10th-anniversary account, Project Maji said it had supplied 126 million liters of clean water and reached more than 380,000 people.

Project Maji has since developed smaller modular kiosks, added digital payments and remote monitoring, and introduced piped systems with multiple water access points. It expanded from Ghana into Kenya in 2018 and Uganda in 2022. The organization says it aims to bring safe water to 1 million people in rural communities.