The ANSA McAL Group has part­nered with the Gov­ern­ment of Ja­maica to help re­store a safe and sus­tain­able wa­ter sup­ply to homes, schools, and es­sen­tial fa­cil­i­ties af­fect­ed by re­cent dis­rup­tions.

The com­pa­ny, through ANSA Chem­i­cals Ja­maica and ANSA Chem­i­cals Trinidad, is work­ing with the Na­tion­al Wa­ter Com­mis­sion (NWC) to pro­vide a con­sis­tent sup­ply of chlo­rine for potable wa­ter pro­duc­tion, along with bulk and pack­aged bleach for san­i­ta­tion.

The ini­tia­tive in­cludes sup­ply­ing chlo­rine to en­sure safe, treat­ed wa­ter for dis­tri­b­u­tion and de­liv­er­ing clean­ing agents to sani­tise more than 40 crit­i­cal fa­cil­i­ties, in­clud­ing hos­pi­tals, schools, and near­ly 4,000 homes.

To speed up the process, ANSA Chem­i­cals has joined forces with the GraceKennedy Foun­da­tion and the Rapid Re­lief Team through its Ja­maican dis­trib­u­tors, both of which are al­ready as­sist­ing with on-the-ground dis­tri­b­u­tion.

The first phase of the ini­tia­tive in­cludes 800 cas­es of pack­aged bleach, while fur­ther ship­ments of high-con­cen­tra­tion bleach and chlo­rine are sched­uled to ar­rive be­tween No­vem­ber 7 and 14, with ad­di­tion­al sup­port con­tin­u­ing through­out the month.

“Across the Caribbean, we share more than bor­ders, we share a bond of care and com­mu­ni­ty,” said An­tho­ny N. Sab­ga III, Group CEO of ANSA McAL. “Our sup­port to Ja­maica reaf­firms our com­mit­ment to re­gion­al re­silience and sus­tain­able growth.”

The ef­fort aligns with ANSA McAL’s mis­sion of “In­spir­ing Bet­ter Choic­es for a Bet­ter World” and its com­mit­ment to re­gion­al co­op­er­a­tion and sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment.

Mean­while, Berg­er Paints Ja­maica, part of the ANSA McAL Group, has al­so joined the hur­ri­cane re­lief ef­forts by re­pur­pos­ing J$10 mil­lion worth of new paint buck­ets to help dis­trib­ute safe drink­ing wa­ter.

The com­pa­ny has al­ready de­liv­ered a 40-foot con­tain­er of 5-gal­lon buck­ets to a gov­ern­ment dis­tri­b­u­tion site. These will be filled with drink­ing wa­ter and dis­patched to com­mu­ni­ties most se­vere­ly af­fect­ed.

Through this ini­tia­tive, Berg­er Paints aims to help sup­ply 50,000 gal­lons of drink­ing wa­ter across the is­land, equiv­a­lent to near­ly 400,000 half-litre bot­tles.