100 fontane for Africa
100 fontane for Africa
100 fontane for Africa
During the course of the project, 30 more fountains were added to the 100 initially planned. This was made possible thanks to the success of the commercial initiative launched by the company, which involved the sales force and customers around the world, allocating to the project the profits from the sale of the ‘I Balocchi’ series, a historical icon of the company that was reissued for the occasion. The initiative received an extraordinary response and a total of 130 fountains were created.
Each fountain has a name in Kirundi and a local person has been appointed to look after and maintain it.
It has not been an easy project, but one full of challenges. The morphology of the terrain made it difficult to transport the materials, there is no infrastructure and identifying the best points for ‘capturing’ the water from the rock was complicated, due to the rains and landslides that slowed down the work and required constant inspections and changes during construction compared to what had been planned on paper.