A worker fashions an artificial
limb at a prosthetics centre
supported by MND(South) in
Basrah.
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A young victim of a road traffic
accident waits for a fitting
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The Territorial Army captain
who coordinates the military
support to the centre watches
a limb being crafted
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Royal Signals personnel help
plan the challenge of expanding
the totally inadequate telephone
system in Basrah; under Saddam,
only Ba'ath Party members were
allowed a telephone, so the city's
system only supports 4,000 phones
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Work is beginning to clear up
a market area covered in sewage
and rubbish, as well as constructing
a new market building
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A Warrant Officer of the 1st
Battalion The Cheshire Regiment
at a small water-pump newly
installed to supply a village
near Basrah with fresh water
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A bridge recently constructed
in Basrah to ease movement
for local people
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A water pump is turned on
again to irrigate fields having
been relocated to avoid flood
damage on the banks of
the Euphrates
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An Iraqi at work repairing
the electrical supply network
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An RAF Regiment team discusses
with Marsh Arab elders
engineering plans to build
elevated platforms for three
villages which are routinely
damaged by flood waters
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One of the three villages:
the seasonal floods often
sweep away the houses,
but the villagers are reluctant
to leave their traditional lands.
The earth platforms should
allow them to remain, but with
far greater security
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Three lads from one of the
villages, seen against the
low-lying reed marshes
on which their homes
are presently built
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An RAF Regiment Warrant
Officer visits a Marsh Arab
village to discuss ways
of improving the delivery of
drinking water
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A meeting with the
village elders
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A major programme by the
Coalition Provisional Authority
to dispose of huge quantities
of rubbish from the streets of
Basrah, accumulated over
years of neglect, was launched
in February, using local contractors
under the direction of
37 Engineer Squadron. A new $3.2M
waste disposal facility is planned
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The Coalition Provisional Authority
has initiated a reconstruction
programme in Al Amarah which
will provide over 2,500 jobs. Local
men are seen queuing to register
for the scheme
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Inside a registration point,
British soldiers take the
details of the applicants
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A female Czech soldier distributes
gifts to young Iraqi girls at the
reopening of a school in
Basrah following refurbishment
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An instructor from 150 Fd Sqn
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Another box of shoes is unpacked
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A Scots officer helps a
child try on a pair of shoes
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