The Canadian Government has selected SNC Lavlin to lead a $50 million project to fix a dam in Afghanistan. When these repaires are done this dam should create thousands of jobs for locals and provide irrigation for about 10,000 hectares of land. The dam under repair is located in Kandahar city and is Afghanistan's second largest dam. It had fallen to a state of disrepair after decades of war. Along with the dam there will be repairs to a series of irrigation canals. "There's going to be 10,000 hectares of agricultural land brought back to its full potential and 10,000 seasonal employees and work for the local Afghan people, so this is major project and we're very, very pleased," Bev Oda told reporters.
I think that as a peace keeping country it is important that Canada helps to fix war damages in other countries. Especially the one's still at war. The fact that there will be so many jobs created and so much land brought back to use full farm land is Hugh. I think it will help develop Kandahar.
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