9 Year Volunteer Employee Japanese Doctor: Tetsu Nakamura

More than 600 people living in Afghanistan can find drinking water today. He has voluntarily worked on the water channel project for 9 years to provide drinking water to the local people.

Nakamura is a Japanese medical doctor. For the first time in Afghanistan in 1991, the country begins to help poor people by providing health services to mountainous eastern regions of the country. Cash in these areas 3 health stoves open. In this way, voluntarily helps the poor people living in those regions on health issues.

Over the years 2000, the region began to increase in drought. Diseases are rapidly increasing among the people of the region due to malnutrition and lack of water. He decides to launch a water-canal project when he realizes that the cash can not cope with the ills that way.

In 2003, a thousand financial difficulties have passed through this study. The channel to be built, and the water supply from the Kunar River. Nakamura also tells us that he made use of an old japanese book while making his water channel. Thus adapting the method of narrowing the river to increase the flow of incoming water. It also puts a number of stones at the junction of the river and the canal to raise the water level. The walls of the water channel are made of stones placed in iron fences. Iron fences are also provided by people from the people with iron wire stuffing. The wall also obtains the stones to be used by breaking the rocks around. So it is all done at almost no expense.

In this project of Nakamura, the indigenous people have been very supportive, and they have carried out this work together, hand in hand. The locals, thanks to this project. They were able to cultivate on this desert which was once a desert, and they were able to provide their own food needs. Besides, they have passed a little before the drought in the world.

With this 25.5 km long canal project, as of 2016, 16,000 hectares of farmland could be irrigated, with 600,000 people receiving water needs. He was awarded the Ramon MagSaysay prize for his "international peace" due to this project.




Tetsu Nakamura emphasized that the increasing hunger and terrors in the world could be avoided in this way. He has left his comfortable life in japan and accomplished something for humanity, this big hearted man; Thank you for the greatest magnitude.