Saturday, January 21, 2006

Molding Iraq's future


The Kovak Primary School in the Dahuk District was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers. From CentCom:

This 12-classroom school was newly constructed from the ground up. A year in the making, it is now complete and ready to house 36 teachers and about 825 students.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had contract over watch of this project.
“The Dohuk Resident Office has managed several different types of projects throughout Northern Iraq, but the school construction and renovations are special... they make you smile. I’ve never seen children so excited to go to school,” said Derek Walker, project engineer.
“You can see the future of not just the country, but perhaps the world, in the happiness of the faces of these children who long to enter them. I can honestly say I know we’ve made a difference in their lives,” he said.