"Dhahiba" Water Project provides clean drinking water to more than 2,300 beneficiaries




"It was a dream, and it has come true". This is how the people of Dhahiha, Al-Sawadia district, Al-Bayda governorate, describe the water project implemented by the National Foundation for Development and Humanitarian Response (NFDHR) with the support of Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF).
 
Al-Sawadiya district is known as water-scarce areas, and water trucks are the most important source of water for residents and expensive to afford, while the displaced and the people most affected by war depend on some open surface wells to provide part of their water needs. Children and women are usually responsible for fetching water for their families.
 
"Dhahiba" is one of the areas to which hundreds of families have been displaced from war zones. Most of the residents are unable to provide their water needs due to poverty and lack of job opportunities.
NFDHR intervened in Al-Sawadiya to implement an integrated project in the field of water, health and shelter, through constructing a tower water tank with a capacity of 50 cubic meters, installing a solar pumping system, implementing a pumping chabmer and a 9296-meter-long liquefaction network to deliver pure drinking water to 8 villages in need of water most, in addition to installing 44 water pipes to distribute water in these villages.
 
2,326 IDP and host community beneficiaries in Al-Sawadiya district recently celebrated the opening of a Dhahiba water project and the end of their suffering with water. Their sons and daughters will be able to regularly go to school instead of fetching water.