Key to comfortable life

Nine families get rebuilt housesFamilies from Nabi Saleh, Al Mahooz, Juffair, Al Gareefa, and Bilad Al Qadeem received the keys to their newly-built homes. The nine families in the Manama Municipal Council area had lived in old, run-down buildings. Now they will enjoy the benefits of modern high-standard houses, thanks to the national housing rehabilitation programme, initiated by His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.Working in co-operation with the five municipal councils, the programme provides new homes for low-income Bahraini families who own and live in old, deteriorated houses. The rundown homes are demolished and replaced, on the same site, with high-quality dwellings and presented to the owners as a Royal gift. The programme began full-scale implementation in the beginning of the year and has completed 200 houses and another 260 are being repaired or rebuilt.Steadily expanding, the programme has a target of 1,000 houses to be rebuilt by April.