Qatar Charity said yesterday it has completed several civic and educational projects in Darfur, Sudan, in the last seven months while the projects underway are expected to finish before the end of the year, at a cost of $1mn.
Khaled al-Wakil, charity’s Sudan office director, said that the projects included drilling and maintenance of water wells, construction of lavatories and promoting health education.
Projects also included distribution of food supplies for the displaced families in refugee camps, building schools and distributing school bags, as well as sponsoring orphans and students and funding income-generating projects, benefiting hundreds of thousands people.
Al-Wakil said that the charity also constructed a primary and a junior high school for girls in Nyala, in the place of previous school which was running in a rundown structure.
A total of 485 girls are studying in the newly opened school, of which 170 are orphan and 100 displaced, he added.
The official said that the charity has sponsored 40 college students in Darfur and distributed more than 500 school bags to orphan-students.
The charity adopted, in partnership with World Food Programme (WFP), a school food programme, to retain the number of students from leaving the school for breakfast halfway through the school time.
“The programme features a daily meal for 4,300 students in nine schools in southern Darfur,” he said, adding that the charity was managing the storage and preparation of meals, while WFP provided 93 tons of food for the first semester.
The charity has also agreed to build a multi-service complex, including a number of facilities such as a mosque and school for girls. In the construction of complex, environment friendly and low cost compressed bricks’ technique was used.
Water and sanitation projects included drilling 15 water wells equipped with hand pumps in different areas of southern Darfur. Seven wells are under construction in partnership with Unicef and Sudanese water and environment authority.
A total of 26 wells are also under construction in west Darfur, in co-operation with the Islamic Relief-UK, as well as the maintenance of another 60 wells and the construction of five school lavatories.
He said the potable water projects would help in reducing high mortality rates among children, caused by pollution.
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