Fighting Typhoid and Cholera in Dhi Qar
For just over $3,000 we provided the medical equipment to inoculate 30,000 people in this region. in the long term these people will be protected from these water-borne diseases through the construction of a multi-million dollar water purification plant, but in the meantime people have been dying of typhoid and cholera.
Thanks to the generosity of donors, in cooperation with the national and local Ministries of Health and on the advice of local authorities, we were able to help protect these people from water-borne diseases until the project is completed.
Apart from providing immediate relief to the local population, this project has also directly benefited the security of contractors operating in the region. Our Reconstruction Liaison Teams of expatriates and Iraqis have been given life-saving threat warnings from members of the local community. The project has helped us engage with local leadership and influential members of the community and has helped provide a sound platform on which to base larger infrastructure projects.
