AN international non-governmental organisation, Qatar Charity Foundation, yesterday entered into collaboration with Jigawa State Government and Mallam Inuwa Foundation to provide solar-powered water plants, boreholes, hand-pumps and mosques in across the state’s 27 local governments.
The three parties agreed on the partnership at a meeting at the Jigawa State Governor’s Lodge in Abuja.
The collaboration borders on ways of supplying and installing solar-powered water systems, installation of pumping and boreholes for the benefit of millions of people in various communities in the state.
According to the terms of the partnership, the host communities that will benefit from the project are to be coordinated by the state government and Mallam Inuwa Foundation is to ensure that all the identified locations have free access to clean and potable water, Juma’at and five-daily prayers mosques and other social development projects.
Speaking at the ceremony, Jigawa State Governor Muhammadu Badaru Abubakar said the initiative was in furtherance of his administration’s productive engagement and collaboration with international governmental and non-governmental organisations. He promised to provide plots of land for the projects.
On his part, the Qatar Charity Country Director in Nigeria, Mr. Hamdi Elsayed, said the project will directly be implemented by Qatar Charity Foundation with the support of the people of Qatar.
He said the foundation will support the state in modern farming, especially irrigation.
Mallam Inuwa Foundation, founded by Mallam Kashifu Inuwa, is a community-based foundation to improve the lives of people in Hadejia Local Government Area of Jigawa State and its environs.
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