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Turkey's leading charity finished digging hundreds of water wells across Africa with donations of Turkish beneficents before Islamic holy month Ramadan starts, the foundation said.

Hudreds of water wells were digged and fountains were built in a aid move under the leadership of Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) across African countries, the charity said on website.

The last projects in Chad, Sudan and Burkina Faso were also finished before Ramadan.

One of the first foundations which started water well projects, IHH has built 392 water wells in Somali, Chad, Djibouti, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Niger with the donations of beneficents so far.

Chairman of IHH Bulent Yildirim said that "1.4 million people have to live without water around the world."

"In Africa 250 million people are suffering from drought" Yildirim said in his statement about the issue.

"Some of them have to carry water from the wells that are kilometers far away from their villages. Because not all of the villages have water wells."

"We are solving two problems when we are building water wells. First of all, we are supplying water for them and secondly, we are preventing the illnesses that are caused by the unhealthy resources," Yildirim added.

Africa is the continent that the drought is felt at the highest level in the world. African countries head the highest rates of death and diseases caused by the unhealhty drinking waters in the world.

IHH was founded in 1992 after the Serbian war in Bosnia erupted. Turkish volunteers who swiftly took steps with the outbreak of the Bosnian war and continued their efforts during the Chechen war gathered in 1995 and founded the Foundation for the humanitarion aid foundation.