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Pakistani media hails UAE's 1st add

Posted Sat 14 Jul 2012 08:40:56 pm in News, Environment & Energy | By Dubib.com News Desk


Meanwhile a report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has recently stressed importance of providing clean water to protect millions of children from exposure to the risk of epidemics because of stagnant water in flood-affected areas.Under the headline, UAE-aided project restores drinking water to 44 flood-hit KP villages, the ''Pakistan Today'' reported that :''The United Arab Emirates (UAE) financed project has restored drinking water facility to at least 44 villages in Khyber Pakhtunkawa under its on-going development plan for rehabilitating flood-hit people of the province where the infrastructure of basic amenities was washed away by flood in 2010.

 

Quoting Abdullah Khalifa Al Ghafli, Project Director, the daily ''Overseas'' said :'' The project management has succeeded to rebuild the wrecked infrastructure through its diversified but integrated various ongoing and already completed small and big projects of education, health care, roads and bridges building and the last but not the least, clean water in Swat and other districts. It would definitely help people affected from the natural disasters by improving their living standard enabling them return to normal life he further added.

 

''It is a new beginning which makes drinking water available at door step'' said.

 

According to different reports of the Asian Development Bank the common people have been badly missing the basic facilities of schooling, health and clean drinking water in these truculent areas of the province.

 

''It is indeed a remarkable achievement of the project management which has been working very hard day and night to bring socio-economic change in the war ragged province and other North West areas since 2011,'' the paper added.

 

High officials of the province paid their gratefulness for all the good things including the ongoing projects in the region. They termed these projects vital for the normalcy of life and development of the society. The people of the region personally thanked the wise leadership of the UAE and of course management of the UAE project, assist Pakistan. They highly appreciated esteemed humanitarian spirits of the UAE leadership in the country and especially in the region.



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