MONUSCO engineers from China finish barracks expansion project for Bangladeshi peacekeeping unit

BUKAVU, DR Congo, Might 17 — The twenty fifth Chinese language peacekeeping engineering contingent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) accomplished the barracks enlargement challenge of the Bangladesh Navy Police Battalion with excessive requirements on Might 13, native time after a 12-day operation.

In keeping with the power adjustment and deployment plan of the United Nations Group Stabilization Mission within the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), one other batch of Bangladesh navy police troops shifting from elsewhere might be stationed within the Bangladesh Navy Police Battalion, and it was pressing to broaden the barracks to unravel the housing scarcity drawback.

This enlargement challenge included the development of recent prefab homes, garages, washrooms, and highway hardening. The Chinese language peacekeeping engineering contingent despatched eight peacekeepers to hold out the duty.

The development website is situated within the Barracks of the Bangladesh Navy Police on the Kavumu Airport in Bukavu, Sud-Kivu Province. As a result of poor highway situations, it takes at the least multiple hour to drive from the barracks of the Chinese language peacekeeping contingent to the development website. With a purpose to velocity up the work progress, the eight Chinese language peacekeepers set out early and returned late day-after-day, and had lunch on the building website to save lots of time. As well as, as a consequence of years of publicity to the blazing solar and rainwater erosion, the infrastructure of Bangladesh Navy Police Battalion has been in poor situation, bringing main potential security hazards.

In the course of the intervals of constructing new prefab homes within the barracks of the Bangladesh Navy Police Battalion, the Chinese language peacekeepers moreover accomplished the duties of 20-meter essential highway floor hardening, repainting partitions totaling 60 sq. meters, and sustaining water and electrical energy pipelines, making the dwelling surroundings of Bangladeshi peacekeepers successfully improved.

After the challenge acceptation inspection, the commanding officer of the Bangladesh Navy Police Battalion prolonged his heartfelt gratitude to the Chinese language peacekeepers, saying “We want to lengthen our gratitude to the Chinese language peacekeeping engineers. Owing to your laborious work, our dwelling surroundings has been significantly improved, and we’re happy along with your work!”