Dozens of development projects completed in Afghanistan’s north, east
KUNDUZ (SANA): Ten uplift schemes including an electricity project had been executed in northern Jawzjan and Kunduz provinces, officials said the other day.
Jawzjan Rural Development and Rehabilitation Director Engineer Mohammad Yousuf informed that 269 families of Shiberghan would benefit from the installation of a 20 kilowatts transformer and a 5,400 metres power supply line.
He added the power project — costing more than 60,000 US dollars — from was being executed with funds from the budget of the Ministry of Rural Development and Rehabilitation (MRRD), with 10 percent contribution from area people.
Nine uplift schemes were executed under the National Solidarity Programme (NSP) of the MRRD in Kunduz. NSP Public Relations chief, Ahmad Jamshid Ahmadi, said the projects included road gravelling, small bridges, wells, water supply and tailoring courses for women.
He claimed more than 2120 families living in Dasht-i-Archi, Khanabad, Imam Sahib, Aliabad districts and the provincial capital would benefit from the schemes.
Elsewhere, 37 vocational courses were arranged by Afghanaid — a British NGO — at a cost of 4.5 millions afghanis, provided by the Swiss government, in northern Samangan province.
Engineer Abdul Samad, provincial coordinator of Afghanaid, said the projects were completed in six months and 2,157 people including 900 women received vocational trainings.
Head of vocational learning in the province, Najibullah, said the participants were imparted trainings in carpet weaving, embroidery, beads stringing, basic literacy and English learning courses, development of fruit nurseries, foods processing, beekeeping and vegetable growing.
Elsewhere, a cold storage for vegetables was built in Chaparhar district of eastern Nangarhar province. The cold storage accounted for 150,000 US dollars provided by the American Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). District chief, Mohammad Hasan Usmanzai, said the cold storage constructed in six months would benefit area farmers.
Director of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Engineer Mohammad Hasan Safi said 48 units of a solar power system with the capacity to generate 10 kilowatts of power had been installed in the storage.
An administrative section, a vaccine department and a paramedical department at Nangarhar Civil Hospital were added at the cost of 60,000 dollars provided by the Local Governance and Community Development (LGCD) initiative of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
