Qatar Charity Provides Drinking Water To 1.2 Million People in Ghana

Doha, June 04 (QNA) - Qatar Charity (QC) announced that the number of beneficiaries of its water projects since the opening of its office in Ghana in 2016 until the beginning of this year has reached more than 1.2 million people, with an additional 128,000 people expected to benefit from the wells and water stations that the QC office in Ghana is working on implementing this year. QC said in a statement issued today that its implemented projects in the field of water and sanitation have contributed to ending the suffering of the most vulnerable rural residents in need of safe drinking water in Ghana, while its field teams are now continuing to drill several wells and install water stations, totaling 128 wells and a new station under construction. Since the opening of its office in Ghana, West Africa, QC has been able to implement 1,207 projects to provide drinking water, whilst it has also expanded its humanitarian interventions and development projects there. In this context, Director of the Government Agency for Community Water and Sanitation in Ghana Mohamed Ibrahim praised QC's projects in the field of water and sanitation. He said that QC's projects are contributing to the provision and management of water facilities benefiting rural areas with very low water coverage. According to the data of the National Population and Housing Census in Ghana for the year 2021, in addition to official reports on primary health care in relation to the water situation for the same year, at least three million Ghanaian citizens in rural areas suffer because of their inability to access healthy drinking water sources, as they drink from open dams, creeks, and shallow wells, struggling to meet their daily drinking water needs. Following a field assessment study on the size of need and coordination with the official authorities in light of the Ghanaian government's development strategy, QC focused its increasing interventions on the implementation of water stations in the northern and northwestern parts of Ghana in the regions of Ooty, Volta, Bono, and Ahafo, which are among the most poor regions and in need of water projects. (QNA)