Inauguration of School by Italian PRT in Shendan District of Herat Province

Herat, January the 26th 2010

Today at 10:30 AM, took place the opening ceremony of one between the many projects that Italian PRT realized in Herat’s province. The PRT took up the project for a 10 classroom school in Niswan village – Shindand district, requested by the local authorities, in this instance by the Director of Herat Education Department, in order to improve the poor number of educational infrastructures nowadays present into the District. The project, that has a cost of € 111.495, was constituted by a quadrangular plan building on one floor levels, according the standard typology imposed by the Education Ministry.All around is build up a brick masonry surrounding wall with inside playground, latrine building, generator rooms and external sewage system.
Concerning the structure, the building is made up of pillars and beams in reinforced concrete and walls of solid baked bricks of the traditional local type. The inner sides will be coated with plaster, so as to be proper for the purpose. The foundations are made up of plinths in reinforced concrete and continuous stonewalls below the beams connecting the pillars. The floor will have to be higher at least 15 cm than the ground level.The building has a well for water supply and is provided of an external sewage system. As there is no urban drainage system to connect to, the solution proposed, in conformity with the local system normally used, is a tank to be periodically emptied.The Italian Representatives were composed by the RC-W Commander, Brigadier General Alessandro VELTRI and the PRT Commander, Col. Claudio Dei
Local Authorities, constituted by Mr. Ghulam Hzarat TANHA Chief of Herat’s Education Department, Mr. TIMORI Chief of Public Works, Brig.Gen. Asmatullah ALIZAI Chief of Provincial ANP, Mr. Lal Mohammad OMARZAI, the Governor of Shindand District and many others have shown, as ever, their appreciation and have thanked Italian PRT for the extraordinary contribution to their Country’s reconstruction, with truly and deep appreciation words for Italian military’s operate in cooperation activities. From March 2009 PRT has started 8 projects in Education sector most of which are still on going for a total amount of € 791.377. Until now PRT has completed the realization of a 8 classroom school at Niswan Nang Abad – GHORYAN District, a 8 classroom school at Zahkani in GULRAN District, a 8 classroom school at Shah Abad in Pashtoon Zarghon and the Hall in the Herat central library to exhibit sculptures and pictures; moreover PRT performed the renovation of an existing, old female school: the KHOJA MOHAMAD KANJANI High School in Siawashan – GUZHARA District in joint cooperation with “Cooperazione Italiana” that supplied with school equipment and other material for the schoolboys. Altogether from year 2005 up today the Italian PRT has realized 37 new schools and has delivered equipment, for example chairs, table and teacher’s table, and other material necessary for children’s lessons. In 2010 the PRT is going to realize and refurbish 6 schools in various districts more a building for the Education Department in Herat for a total amount of € 1.054.000