The representatives of IOM Azerbaijan visited the Shamsi kahriz located in Aghdam district and met kankans who are carried out renovation works in the kahriz
Baku - On 5 March 2020, representatives of IOM Azerbaijan led by Vladimir Gjorgjiev, the Chief of IOM Mission to Azerbaijan visited the Shamsi kahriz located in Mirasheli village of the Aghdam district and met kankans who carried out renovation works in the kahriz within the current IOM Project “Integrated Rural Development for IDP communities in Azerbaijan through Revitalization of Kahriz Water Supply System” financed by the Korea International Cooperation Agency.
The project focuses on improving the water supply in rural areas of Aghdam, Aghjabadi, Barda, Fuzuli, Ganja, Gazakh, Ghoranboy, Goygol, which are highly populated by internally displaced person through the renovation of over 40 kahrizes – a man-made, centuries-old, traditional water-supply system that does not need electricity or fossil fuel to function.