{"id":420167,"date":"2023-09-04T10:15:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T07:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=420167"},"modified":"2023-09-04T10:15:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T07:15:57","slug":"ksrelief-signs-5m-deal-to-provide-clean-drinking-water-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/ksrelief-signs-5m-deal-to-provide-clean-drinking-water-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"KSrelief signs $5m deal to provide clean drinking water in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH(SONNA)-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>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>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>More than 1 million Somalis will benefit from the wells, which will provide a sustainable and renewable source of clean drinking water.<br \/>\nAccording to the Saudi Aid Platform, the Kingdom has invested more than $400 million in humanitarian efforts across Somalia.<br \/>\nAl-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>The $5 million water initiative is among many the Kingdom has launched through KSrelief to support those in need.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Arabnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH(SONNA)-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 drilling of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":420168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-420167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420169,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420167\/revisions\/420169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}