Tribune News Network
Doha
With the generous and continuous support of philanthropists in Qatar, the number of beneficiaries of Qatar Charity’s 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.
Qatar Charity’s water and sanitation projects have helped end 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 instal water stations, totalling 128 wells and a new station under construction.
Qatar Charity has been able to implement 1,207 projects to provide drinking water since the opening of its office in Ghana, West Africa and has expanded its humanitarian interventions and development projects there.
Mohamed Ibrahim, director of the Government Agency for Community Water and Sanitation in Ghana, praised Qatar Charity’s projects in the field of water and sanitation. He said QC’s contribution to the provision and management of water facilities benefits rural areas with very low water coverage.
According to the data of the National Population and Housing Census in Ghana for the year 2021 and official reports on primary health care for the same year, about the water situation, 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, and struggle to meet their daily drinking water needs.
After a field assessment study of the size of the need on the land and coordination with the official authorities in light of the development strategy of the Ghanaian government, Qatar Charity focused its increasing interventions on the implementation of water stations in the northern and northwestern parts of Ghana in the regions - Ooty, Volta, Bono, and Ahafo - which are considered among the most regions in need of water projects.
