Hiiraan Online
Friday,June 6, 2014
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The African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has launched water wells in some districts in the Somali Capital Mogadishu saying that the project will provide clean water to about 260,000 vulnerable people in the city.The water wells were implemented in the districts of Hamarweyne, Wadajir, Dharkeynley and Hamarjajab. Two of these districts hold the biggest number of internally displaced people in the city
AMISOM says that the development project was supported and financed by the Swedish government.
Mr. James Gadin who heads AMISOM political office told the launching ceremony that the project was part of AMISOM’s programmes intended to assist Somali people.
“We donated these water wells to the vulnerable Somali people living in those four districts so that they can get clean drinking water” Mr. James Gadin told the ceremony.
AMISOM’s co-ordinator for humanitarian projects Mr. Abdul Diagabate adds that the launching of such water wells will help people maintain good health. “We are working hard to get the Somali people have clean water to drink” he noted.
Mogadishu deputy Mayor Ismail Moalim Abdi Gure thanked AMISOM and the government of Sweden for the constant assistance they have been extending to the government and the people of Somalia.
HOL English News Desk