The Brunei Council on Social Welfare (MKM) reached two milestones for its charity projects in Bangladesh prior to the start of the holy month of Ramadhan, said the non-governmental organisation.
MKM said it completed its 1,100th tubewell just before Ramadhan. The organisation has been building tubewells to provide clean and safe water to poor villages in Bangladesh since 2005 and Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar during the influx of refugees in 2018.
The organisation said each tubewell costs BND400 and provides enough water to 100 to 150 people in each village.
The organisation also celebrated the certification of six students from its tahfiz programme at the MKM School in Unchiprang Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazaar. The school is attended by 500 refugee students, with 400 undergoing a UNICEF approved secular programme learning two languages, maths, science and Islamic religious knowledge. The remaining 100 are in the tahfiz programme.
Earlier, the organisation reported that it completed construction of its 20th mosque for, poor villages as well as 10 ablution areas for existing mosques in Bangladesh. – Fadley Faisal
