PRT Commander Visited Female Correction Center in Herat Province.

Herat, August the 8^st 2009.

Today the PRT Commander, Col. Michele Brandonisio, the Cimic Centre Commander Cap. Manuel Solastri, together with their guest Mr. Roberto Faccani, Manager of Civil Protection of Bassa Romagna, have visited the Female Correctional Center, in Herat City.

The general project was conducted under supervision of Italian PRT and financed for 80% by the European Union and remaining 20% from Italian Ministry of Defence. The project was realized trough three principal steps:

- building of the infrastructure;

- supply of equipments (furniture, computers, printing, etc.);

- training of personnel.

The building, a female jail fitted to lodge 80 prisoners, has been realized inside Herat City, in the existing Prison’s district.

The project of new female prison is aimed to improve the life’s quality of children, that often live with imprisoned mothers inside the jail, and the quality of relationships among prisoners themselves.

The PRT Commander, Col. Michele Brandonisio, and the CIMIC PRT Commander, Cap. Manuel Solastri, have carried and handed out several humanitarian aid for the imprisoned women and their children, besides furnishing carpets to the whole structure for an amount of 7.200 euro. During the visit Mr. Faccani had the opportunity of appreciating the modernity of the structure, and planned to develop in a short time a set of solidarity projects, for example a shoes’ supply for imprisoned women and their children, so as the equipment of both male and female correctional centre’s ambulatories with beds, electrocardiograph, medical examination’s lamps. Mr. Faccani has also agreed about the possibility to provide the pediatric hospital, that he visited yesterday, with a one year supply of powder milk, lactic ferments and poli-vitaminic products.