{"id":7052,"date":"2026-05-20T20:21:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:21:03","slug":"solar-powered-borehole-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2026\/05\/20\/solar-powered-borehole-opening-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar-Powered Borehole Opening Ceremony!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So our solar-powered borehole in Cameroon is now live and working and providing clean drinking water at zero effort to hundreds of people. Yay! There are more details about the borehole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2026\/01\/22\/positech-is-funding-a-solar-powered-borehole-in-cameroon\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2026\/02\/24\/unexpected-solar-powered-borehole-update\/\">here<\/a> and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2026\/05\/02\/solar-borehole-project-update\/\">here<\/a>. I might not have mentioned it before, but the cost is just over \u00a320k. Very worthwhile when you think about how many people it will affect and the changes and improvements it enables. Anyway, they sent a very nice video celebrating the opening of the borehole, and here it is :D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Positech and BSFA Borehole Opening ceremony\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bVPaW4pzaIM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So our solar-powered borehole in Cameroon is now live and working and providing clean drinking water at zero effort to hundreds of people. Yay! There are more details about the borehole here, here and also here. I might not have mentioned it before, but the cost is just over \u00a320k. Very worthwhile when you think<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Solar-Powered Borehole Opening Ceremony!<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2026\/05\/20\/solar-powered-borehole-opening-ceremony\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7053,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions\/7053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}