DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) will implement a relief and rehabilitation project in the Somalian province of Middle Shabelle, for the benefit of around 93,000 people.
The QR3.3m project will offer support to people affected by the floods that have swept through the province during the past two years, and is expected to take around a year to complete.
The project will help improve the living standards of the affected families by providing support to the agricultural and pastoral sector, establishing income-generating projects for the displaced and rehabilitating a number of essential facilities in the targeted areas, and that in a number of villages affiliated to the directorates of ‘Jawhar’ and ‘Bal’ad’ of Middle Shabelle governorate.
A land reclamation project is expected to reclaim 250 hectares of agricultural land in one of the most important agricultural provinces in Somalia and restore stability to 500 families in Shabelle who depend on agriculture and grazing which was affected by the floods. Four schools and four health centers will also be renovated and equipped, in addition to the rehabilitation of seven wells and provide them with new generators, the construction of 10km of irrigation canals, and the provision of alternative sources of income through small income-generating projects for 58 affected families.
QC aims eventually to begin providing recovery projects to enable the affected people to become self-sufficient, via a series of income-generating projects including shops, machinery production and ownership of animals. The people will also be trained on how to cope with frequent floods and have their artesian wells rehabilitated to run according to the latest modern energy systems.
The Peninsula
