Qatar Charity Provides Shelter, Drinking Water to IDPs in Northern Sudan

 

 

Doha, October 31 (QNA) - Qatar Charity started the implementation of a project to provide shelter and drinking water for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Northern Sudan.

In a statement today Qatar Charity said that the projects is a continuation of its humanitarian efforts to relieve those affected by the war in Sudan, adding that the project aims to improve temporary shelter, provide potable water, and implement cleanliness and sanitation campaigns in the city of Wadi Halfa and those stranded at the 'Arqin' Land Crossing, located on the Sudanese-Egyptian border.

The statement added that the project included providing tents and other shelter supplies and potable water for two months by providing a truck to distribute drinking water to 2,500 people per month, providing chlorine tablets and water storage equipment for families, waste collection equipment as part of an environmental sanitation campaign, with the aim of contributing to the efforts made to alleviate the impact and suffering of the displaced and stranded as a result of the war and to reduce the incidence of diseases resulting from the lack of availability of water or their use of contaminated water. (QNA)