{"id":12552,"date":"2023-09-03T22:31:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T22:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=12552"},"modified":"2023-09-10T07:34:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T07:34:02","slug":"ksrelief-signs-5-mln-deal-to-provide-clean-drinking-water-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2023\/09\/03\/ksrelief-signs-5-mln-deal-to-provide-clean-drinking-water-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"KSrelief signs $5 mln deal to provide clean drinking water in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RIYADH &#8212;<\/strong> The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center on Sunday signed a $5 million agreement with a Somali civil society organization to supply clean drinking water to drought-affected communities, the Saudi Press Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Abdullah Saleh Al-Moallem, director of KSrelief\u2019s health and environmental aid department, said that the deal will involve the drilling of 24 solar-powered artesian wells and the restoration of another 20 wells.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Moallem added that there will be an educational program on sanitation and hygiene as well as training for water resource management committees on well operation and maintenance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 1 million Somalis will benefit from the wells, which will provide a sustainable and renewable source of clean drinking water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Saudi Aid Platform, the Kingdom has invested more than $400 million in humanitarian efforts across Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al-Moallem said that KSRelief recently launched projects worth $190 million in various fields, including community support, health, water, emergency relief, food provision, malnutrition prevention and empowerment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-109681369_148=\"6097\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-109681369_148=\"6097\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-109681369_148=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-109681369_148=\"1\">The $5 million water initiative is among many the Kingdom has launched through KSrelief to support those in need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-109681369_148=\"6097\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-109681369_148=\"6097\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-109681369_148=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-109681369_148=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: ARAB NEWS\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2366566\/saudi-arabia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH &#8212; The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center on Sunday signed a $5 million agreement with a Somali civil society organization to supply clean drinking water to drought-affected communities, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Dr. Abdullah Saleh Al-Moallem, director of KSrelief\u2019s health and environmental aid department, said that the deal will involve the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-wash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12554,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552\/revisions\/12554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}