Dar Al Ber Society announced work on a project to build a sustainable and integrated charitable village in the Republic of Niger, located in the west of the African continent. It represents an innovative project based on solar energy, with total costs estimated at 4.4 million dirhams, and the village will benefit 350 residents.

Dr Muhammad Suhail Al Muhairi, CEO and Managing Director of Dar Al Ber Society said: "The completion rate in the Sustainable Humanitarian Village Project currently stands at 70%, out of the total facilities and stages of the comprehensive project, which is currently being implemented in the largest country in western Africa, to employ alternative energy (solar) in the new charitable village, instead of traditional energy sources, which pollute the environment, to enhance the concept of sustainability, protect the environment, and preserve natural resources."

Dr Al Muhairi said that the humanitarian project reflects the UAE’s civilized charitable mission, directed to the world, the values of the UAE and its people, and the directives of its wise leadership, which is based on doing good and loving to help others and extending a helping hand and charity to the poor, the afflicted and the deprived, around the world, especially in the poorest countries and regions in need of development and services and infrastructure. The project is based on Emirati development thought, based on the principles and values of sustainability.

Al Muhairi stated that the sustainable village includes 50 houses, which are scheduled to be distributed to the poor and needy people of the area within which the project is being built, and an integrated school, from which about 180 students, male and female residents of the village will benefit, and a medical clinic which extends over an area of 150 square meters, and a mosque with a capacity of up to 150 worshippers.

Youssef Al-Yateem, Assistant CEO of the Zakat and Projects Sector at Dar Al-Ber, explained that the sustainable charitable village also includes 10 shops, which constitute a charitable endowment that serves the village and its people and aims to enhance its sustainability, by providing sources of income to finance the provision of its needs and the continuity of providing public services there, and two artesian wells to provide water for daily domestic and civil uses. The two wells are powered by solar energy, with a private extended water network.