As part of its early relief programme to the victims of floods in the Middle Shebelle governorate in Somalia, Qatar Charity (QC) has implemented qualitative income-generating projects from which 400 families benefited.
The projects included rehabilitation of the affected families and improvement of their quality of life, in addition to supporting agriculture and shepherding. The programme also included funding income-generating projects, which saw 150 families receiving five goats each.
This project was to enable them to get their day-to-day lives back on track after the floods and also aimed at supporting shepherding and providing these families with a source of income that matched their previous professions.
QC has also restored agricultural lands in a total area of 250 hectares for 250 families who had worked in farming before the floods damaged their lands.
QC seeks to rehabilitate the agricultural and shepherding societies and start agricultural and shepherding businesses by supplying the workers with seeds and pesticides as well as manual cultivation instruments needed for local production.
The regions adjacent to the two rivers of Shebelle and Juba witnessed heavy rains last October and November which led to the flooding of the rivers and caused a disastrous immigration of the inhabitants of the rivers’ banks. Middle Shebelle was mostly affected as most irrigation canals and flood control systems were damaged along the Shebelle River by these floods. Reports show that about 10,000 of the local inhabitants left their flooded cities, villages and farms.
This project also seeks to restore artesian aquifers, reform schools and damaged clinics to help 93,000 people living in the region. QC has recently implemented various projects in Somalia. Of its construction projects in Puntland, QC inaugurated the reformation of two health centres and two preliminary schools at a cost of about QR292,000.