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Community School Project Helps the Private Sector Donate Libraries to Jordan Schools
Students, parents, and community members joined IRD Jordan’s Director of Programs Dr. Uma Kandalayeva September 16 to celebrate the opening of the new library at the Othman bin Affan Boys School in Sahab, which is supported by the Adopt a School Library initiative. This initiative is part of the USAID-funded Community Mobilization for Partnership in Schools Project (CMP)... more
Filed Under: Building Infrastructure, Civil Society, Education, Partnerships, Youth, Middle East & North Africa, Jordan
Goodbye Cholera, Hello Clean Water
CHITUNGWIZA, Zimbabwe – Imagine having 1,600 students in a school and not having water – not even a single drop – to either drink or use for sanitary purposes. This is exactly the challenge that Claude Matsekeza, headmaster at Tasimukira Primary School faced daily before International Relief and Development (IRD) installed a rain water harvesting system (RWHS) at his sc... more
Filed Under: Building Infrastructure, Health & Hygiene, Education, Water, Africa, Zimbabwe
Village Health Outpost Gains Access to Clean Water
Uriye Harkchi, a nurse practitioner for 17 years at the Dubki rural health outpost, does not hide her happiness when she turns on the water tap and fills her cup with water. When she sees the surprised faces of her patients, she smiles and tells them the magic word, “IRD,” which helped bring new life to the Dubki health outpost in Ukraine. Located in Simferopol raion,... more
Filed Under: Building Infrastructure, Health & Hygiene, Water, Europe, Ukraine
Water Infrastructure Rehabilitation in Georgia
East Georgia - With support from the US Department of State, IRD Georgia has been carrying out small water projects since 2000 to ensure provision of clean water and to improve sanitation and hygiene among vulnerable communities. Projects include construction of water wells and towers and rehabilitation of public baths and water supply and sewage systems. In Bakurtsikh... more
Filed Under: Building Infrastructure, Health & Hygiene, Water, Europe, Georgia
Building Infrastructure, Building Communities
The mud of Malakal, the capital of South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, is notorious for swallowing vehicles. Every rainy season, water sits on the unpaved roads and is churned into deep pools of shoe-caking goo, slowing traffic to a crawl and creating a public health hazard. IRD and the Malakal local government have hired 500 workers—making it one of the largest e... more
Filed Under: Building Infrastructure, Capacity Building, Jobs, Africa, Sudan