Qatar Charity announced Tuesday the launch of 'Labbeh' initiative with an estimated value of QR 20mn, to support water and sanitation projects in three drought affected African countries, and it is expected to benefit about 160,000 people.
The five-day campaign will begin Friday on social media platforms, with the participation of several influencers in society, social media influencers, artists and photographers to create a challenge in an innovative way to appeal to the community to donate and take advantage of the reward in the blessed days, especially on the day of Arafa, to reach the largest number of beneficiaries and to collect the target amount.
Within the framework of the initiative, two teams were formed to participate in the challenge, whereby members of each team will travel to Djibouti to find out the areas most in need of projects, while the rest of the members of the two teams will compete inside Qatar.
The initiative aims to implement several projects in the field of water, represented in drilling and equipping 35 deep and surface wells, 12 of which are powered by solar energy, in addition to building and equipping two integrated water stations in Ghana, equipping two desalination and water purification plants, extending and connecting 40 water networks to homes, digging two deep wells and 40 surface wells in Djibouti. In Somalia, it also aims to drill and equip eighty surface wells and 13 deep wells.
