Richard Olson US Ambassador in Pakistan talking to media after visiting Jamshoro Thermal Power House in Hyderabad. PHOTO: ADEEL AHMED
Speaking at its inauguration ceremony of the water filtration plant in Jacobabad on Tuesday, Olson said that the project will aim to improve the city’s drainage system as well as provide its people with potable drinking water. According to him, the project will be completed by 2015.
“Potable drinking water and better drainage are prerequisites for a healthy society,” he said. “Therefore we are focusing on supplying potable water to the citizens of Sindh.” Olson said that USAID aims to establish 136 schools throughout Sindh within the next five years and has planned a $10 million budget for it.
The project was kicked off with the inauguration of a school in Khairpur. The provincial minister for works and services Hazar Khan Bijarani said that Rs1.5 billion has been spent on a water supply scheme but it has failed to come up to the expectations of the citizens.
“Now USAID has taken up this project I am hopeful that the people of Jacobabad will get potable drinking water once this project is completed.”
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More than just giving........America needs to ensure that the money reaches the people because when it does not, as in fact in most cases it does not, the people abuse America because the people understand that at the end of the day it comes out of their pockets.
No one can change the beggary psyche of this nation. When will be stand up on our two feet?