Qatar Charity implements water and sanitation projects in Pakistan

 Qatar Charity has implemented 225 water and sanitation projects in various Pakistani provinces, expected to benefit about 30,000 people, QNA reported.

The implemented projects included the installation of hand water pumps and the construction of environmental sanitation facilities.Some 105 hand water pumps were installed in the Kashi area of Baluchistan for the benefit of 9,450 people, while 100 hand pumps were installed and 20 toilets and hand washing facilities were built in different locations in Peshawar and Mardan districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province for the benefit of 19,145 people.These projects enable the targeted people to realise their right to better health through the improvement of sustainable sanitation and hygiene and focus on reducing and preventing water and sanitation related diseases.The Kashi area in Baluchistan is one of the areas most in need and suffers from an acute shortage of potable water.Therefore, Qatar Charity has installed hand pumps near the beneficiaries' homes to facilitate access.Qased-ur-Rahman, Secretary of the Syndicate Council of the local government in the Kashi district, said that poor families benefited greatly from the project as it allowed children to use water freely to wash hands in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, expressing thanks to the benefactors in Qatar and Qatar Charity for their efforts to implement them in order to meet the basic needs of society, especially in the field of water, sanitation and hygiene.Qatar Charity recently signed two contracts to implement water and sanitation projects with Unicef, in order to provide sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services to vulnerable communities and to create a healthy environment with an estimated value of QR12mn. It is expected that more than 936,000 people in Punjab and Baluchistan will benefit from these projects.