| Communities in Fergana region |
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| Wednesday, 24 December 2008 09:53 |
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Since its launch in May 2006, the EU-UNDP
Enhancement of Living Standards in Fergana region (ELS) project has
been working with local authorities and communities in the four
districts of Baghdad, Soh, Rishtan and Fergana.
 In line with national development
objectives and the Millennium Development Goals, the project helps
communities to come up with and co-finance projects that support
peoples wellbeing in health, education and living standards. Presently,
the ELS project is supporting five community interventions for the
reconstruction of rural medical centres, three for improved access to
gas, one to water and one to electricity. The ELS project staff and the
communities expect that the five information and service centres will
benefit approximately 32,269 people from 16 rural assemblies of
citizens by the time they are operative at the end of December 2006.
16, 087 people in seven villages of the districts of Rishtan and
Baghdad will have better access to natural gas. With the support of
the ELS the community of Konizar will lay down one kilometer of pipes
for the benefit of 2,500 people. The O’rtaqishloq community in Fergana
district is working hard to make it possible for 1,212 people to have
better access to electricity. If these may seem just figures and
names of distant places, just stop one moment and think of the children
who will have a warmer school this winter, or the sweet meal of a
dinner cooked at home without the smoke from the firewood, the joy of
a brightly lit up New Year Eve celebration with family and friends or
just a handy water tap close where people live. After all, this is what
improvement of living standards mean for the ELS project and for the
people working to make it a success. From 23 November to 2 December,
2006, to celebrate the year of Charity and Medical Workers and the
forthcoming New Year, the ELS project donated livestock to 47
low-income families resident in the project districts. The event took a
special significance with representatives from the United Nations
Development Programme distributing these gifts. The authorities and
the communities of Fergana region reminded journalists and media that
this help has been made possible by the generous assistance provided by
the European Union who is supporting two similar projects in
Karakalpakstan and Namangan region. |
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