Qatar Charity (QC) has 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 1.2mn 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.The QC said in a statement that its water and sanitation projects 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, totalling 128 wells and a new station under construction.Since the opening of its office in Ghana, the QC has been able to implement 1,207 projects to provide drinking water, whilst also expanding its humanitarian interventions and development projects there.The director of the Government Agency for Community Water and Sanitation in Ghana, Mohamed Ibrahim, has praised the QC's projects which 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 2021, in addition to official reports on primary healthcare in relation to the water situation for the same year, at least 3mn Ghanaian citizens in rural areas suffer because of their inability to access healthy drinking water sources, resorting to open dams, creeks, and shallow wells, and struggling to meet their daily drinking water needs.Following a field assessment study on the size of need, the QC focused 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 poorest regions and in need of water projects.
June 05, 2023 | 12:45 AM