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I seem to have missed this one the first time round. There's a good website listing similar successes that can be found here.

Iraqi Infrastructure : Multi-national forces report on Iraq reconstruction successes Thursday, August 4th 2005 Working together, Iraqi citizens and Coalition partners have taken additional strides toward a self-reliant Iraq in July. Reconstruction and humanitarian projects touched the lives of Iraqis, while the constitutional committee worked toward a resolution of difficult issues. Each individual success marked progress. What follows is a partial list of these successes. Health Nineteen Iraqi military physicians, nurses, medics and medical equipment technicians from the Iraqi Armed Forces went to Germany for five weeks of field hospital, mass casualty and biomedical equipment maintenance training that taught them how to use a variety of donated medical equipment. During the second week in July, Coalition Forces worked with Iraqi health officials in Owja, of the Salah Ad Din province, to open a hospital for the general public. Troops helped hire doctors and nurses, obtain beds, and fix the air conditioning system. Now the hospital provides basic healthcare, including gynecology, x-rays and general practice. The hospital served Saddam Hussein's family and friends but has been closed for several years. More than 20 healthcare facilities have been renovated, with many others in the process of being renovated. The $653,000 Al Husseiniya Primary Healthcare Center under construction in the Al Resafa District of Baghdad Province will include teaching and delivery facilities, as well as a labor center. The facilities are scheduled to be completed by the end of the year and will relieve the overburdened outpatient care currently being provided by existing hospitals. The final objective of implementing this health care system is to reduce overall infant mortality rate by at least 20 percent. Security Iraqi Police graduated from the second of three classes conducted by medics of the 3rd Infantry Division. The five-day course consisted of patient evaluation, wound care and treatment, and rapid vehicle extraction. The students received a wealth of knowledge regarding health care and day-to-day protocols, as well as lifesaving techniques. The 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 8th Iraqi Army Division from al-Hillah were certified as being fully capable of planning and executing security operations. The unit will take control of Camp Echo and surrounding areas in ad Diwaniyah. The Soldiers will soon be patrolling the streets and conducting anti-terrorist operations in the city. On July 13, the IA held a ceremony in al-Hillah to commemorate the occasion. The Chief of Staff of the Australian Army, Lt. Gen. Peter Leahy, hosted a ceremony to present awards to the Iraqi Soldiers who rescued Douglas Wood, the Australian contractor held captive by terrorists for six weeks. Lt. Gen. Naseer Abadi, Deputy Chief of Staff, attended the ceremony and represented the Minister of Defense. The group of Australians presented gifts and offered special thanks to the battalion commander of the forces responsible for the rescue, Col. Mohammed Fa'ek Raouf of 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division. Coalition Soldiers and Kirkuk 's religious leaders came together for a religious conference. Kirkuk 's Governor, Abdulrahman Mustafa, addressed the assembly and said there should be unity and equality between Arab, Turkomen and Kurds. On July 15, the support functions at the Kirkush Military Training Base were transferred to Iraqi control. This is the fifth major base to transition to Iraqi responsibility. KMTB is the home of the Iraqi Training Brigade. An Iraqi female police station tops the list of more than a dozen active construction and planned projects in Najaf. The female police facility will be used to train female cadets to properly search other females at the many checkpoints and security stops throughout Iraq . Three other police station projects are under construction in Waf'a and Najaf city; two are police stations and one is a headquarters building. On July 16, a group of determined and proud Iraqis took a step in building democracy, and gave girls across their country positive role models to look up to. They became the first all-female class to graduate from Iraqi Army basic training. The training, taught entirely by Iraqi instructors, consisted of weapons qualifications and physical fitness development. More than 6,000 Iraqi Security Forces were trained this month, including 1,514 who graduated from the Jordan International Police Training Center on July 30. Sanitation Through surface-cleaning grants from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and long-term privatized contracts, Baghdad residents established all-Iraqi-contracted neighborhood dumpsters, trash collection and removal teams, and trash transfer points, and the practice of littering the streets is slowly starting to change. The first of 27 new compact water treatment units officially opened in Sadr City July 19. The compact water units bring water to the residents while the expanded water system for Sadr City continues to develop. Each water unit produces 15,000 liters of potable water a day. The water is fully treated and ready for drinking. Additional water programs benefiting Sadr City include the recently expanded Shark Dijlah Water Treatment Plant, which is now providing 190 million more liters of water per day to Baghdad . A new main water line is being constructed to connect the Shark Dijlah to the northern Sadr City water network, and a new Sadr City Water Treatment Plant, coming soon, will provide about 190 million liters of water per day directly to northern Sadr City. Many sewer trunk lines have been cleaned or fixed, and work on the majority of sewer trunk lines continues. Each day, 50 million additional gallons of treated, drinkable water are being pumped to the Baghdad residents. New water wells and treatment facilities are in the progress of being constructed in addition to new delivery pipes being installed. Solid waste (trash) is being removed from the majority of sites in the Baghdad area; with some areas having it removed at least twice a week. Reconstruction On July 4, construction was finished on a $29,000 courthouse project in the Soran District of Erbil Province. It was the only Courthouse project programmed for construction in the district, but nationwide, there are 22 prison and court projects planned, with 13 ongoing and nine complete. The $240,000 Zaherat Village Water Network project in the Diyala Governorate was also completed -- 49 days ahead of schedule. This project replaced and refurbished an existing potable water system and pipelines in Zaherat, Abi Saida and Muqdadiya village water networks, providing 300,000 gallons of potable water per day. The El Salvadorian battalion completed construction on a bridge in the city of Al Kifl . Thirty Iraqi Citizens were employed in the project, and officials estimate that 3,000 people will regularly use the bridge, which is located near the Al Jehad School. Another school, the $95,000 Al Masharq School project in the Thi Qar Province, opened July 11. Community Projects More than 200 children and community members gathered at the Bayaa Youth Center in the Al Rashid district of Baghdad to participate in a uniform and wheelchair distribution, followed by a soccer game July 13. The community program provided complete soccer uniforms, soccer balls, and a variety of other items for the 240 children involved in the Bayaa Youth Soccer League. There was enough equipment to outfit 15 teams. In addition to the soccer match, 300 people were treated for minor illnesses by Iraqi doctors at a community health screening, and program coordinators distributed five wheelchairs to disabled people in the area. Kissimmee, Florida is close to formalizing a Sister City agreement with Zafaraniya, Iraq. Despite the 7,000-mile distance and significant cultural differences, citizens of both communities are working to establish a powerful bond to improve both cities. Once accepted as members, the cities will gain numerous programs and grant possibilities that should positively impact Zafaraniya. The program can last anywhere from six months to two years and has substantive goals with specific needs in mind – grants can be made available to target specific infrastructure projects such as sewer and water distribution, power generation or trash collection. Coalition Soldiers provided food, cooking utensils and cleaning supplies July 22 to residents of Kindi, a Baghdad neighborhood north of the International Zone. The supplies were delivered in the form of a Rhode pack, a sustenance package of more than one ton of food and supplies that included rice, beans, canned fish and meat, vegetables, cooking oil, dessert treats, pots and pans, serving utensils and propane stoves. Electricity Since the transfer of sovereignty more than a year ago, a total of 1,451 projects valued at $1.4 billion have been completed. Large-scale capital projects like power plants, water treatment plants and oil infrastructure facilities are being reconstructed and, in some cases, built anew. Demand for electricity is currently growing faster than it can be supplied; however, new power lines of 33 kilovolts have been completed. Generation plants are being built and transmission lines are being constructed to replace a decades-old, neglected electrical power system. More than 1,400 electrical towers and 8,600 kilometers of transmission lines have been installed. Costs Construction was completed this month on a $437,000 electrical distribution project in the Al Anbar Province; a $264,000 Maternity and Pediatric Hospital in the Wassit Province; a $240,000 potable water project in the Diyala Province; a $217,500 police station in the Baghdad Province; a $50,000 school repair project in the Salah al Din Province; and a $29,000 courthouse project in the Erbil Province. These projects, and the efforts of Iraqi citizens and Security Forces, are steadily building Iraq 's infrastructure.