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    Grants help improve canal systems

    Grants help improve canal systems

    Courtesy Photo | Sheikh Imad of the Masudi tribe, accepts a microgrant from embedded Provincial...... read more read more

    ISKANDARIYAH, IRAQ

    04.22.2008

    Courtesy Story

    4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division Public Affairs

    By 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division

    FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq - Residents of central Iraq are improving their communities and creating a safer, healthier environment by cleaning up area canal systems.

    The embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team attached to the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, awarded microgrants, April 14, to leaders in Samrah, south of Baghdad, and, April 17, to Sheikh Imad of the Masudi tribe, south of Iskandariyah.

    The funds awarded to the Masudi tribe, including an earlier grant, March 20, are being used in part to repair a culvert and build a footbridge over the canal.

    "Local leaders have told us this is the best irrigation they have seen in their area since they can remember," said Maj. Eric Kerr, with Company B, 415th Civil Affairs, working with the ePRT.

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    Date Taken: 04.22.2008
    Date Posted: 04.22.2008 15:54
    Story ID: 18655
    Location: ISKANDARIYAH, IQ

    Web Views: 257
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