DOHA: Amiro Hamed, County Chief and Chief of Corie Municipality in Niger, honoured Qatar Charity (QC) for its efforts towards developing the region.
Mayor Hamadu Salivo; Deputy Mayor Hima Amadu; Secretary- General Hassan Eissa; directors and chief of villages in the region attended the event to recognise QC’s work during 2008- 2015, in Corie, 70km from Niamey.
The Municipality Council said intervention expenses QC paid for the region totalled QR3.5m, making QC the best organisation that has greatly contributed to Corie’s development and rehabilitation. QC also helped inhabitants level up their living standards through income-generating projects.
QC chose Corie for its intervention projects because of its agricultural nature — the people depend on farming and raising cattle — and it has good lands and water.
As part of a benevolent loans programme, projects were implemented, including supplying grain banks with 606 tonnes of items, distributing 3,749 sheep and 580 cows, offering sewing machines and supporting 72 small business projects. QC also distributed seeds, manure and forage.
The projects also included the establishment of a health centre in Babussai village, drilling of six artisan aquifers with manual pumps and two artisan aquifers with a tank and networks functioning on solar energy, the establishment of five mosques and a Quran memorisation centre.
QC first implemented a food security programme in Niger in the beginning of 2007 Niger suffered drought and food crisis and the programme continues.
Around 800,000 people benefited from the programme, which focused on income-generating projects related to agriculture and ranching and cooperatives. It followed a donors forum in January 2007 in Doha.The Peninsula
