Japan supports education and health projects in Yemen

SANA’A, March 03 (Saba)- Japan
has decided to extend a grant amounting to YR 20.39 million for a project of
improving
school education environment in Taiz province and another grant amounting to YR
20.19 million for a project of improving medical services for Habeel al-Jabr
Hospital in Lahj
province, southern Yemen.
In a press release issued on Wednesday, the Japanese Embassy in Sana’a said that
the first grant to the General Education Office in Taiz, Girls Education
Department, was
for funding school improvement plans to create better school learning environment
for pupils and girls in particular, at 14 schools in 3 different districts of Taiz,
including
Taziya, Kahdir and Gabel Habashi.
‘’The second grant was to Habeel al-Jabr Hospital in Lahj to purchase medical
equipments to improve emergency, laboratory and diagnostic services in the hospital
which will
benefit 45000 people living in remote and deprived areas of Radfan district’’, said
the embassy.
Japanese ambassador to Yemen Mr. Mitsunori Namba and Girls Education Manager at
Taiz Education Office Ms. Afaf Makki, and the Manager of Habeel al-Jabr Hospital
Mr. Abdul
Raqeeb Sa’eed Mohriz signed on Wednesday the two contracts at the embassy.
The two projects were under the scheme called “Grant Assistance for Grass-roots
Human Security Projects” which aims at supporting small-scale community-based
projects in
basic human needs fields, such as primary health care, basic education and drinking
water supply in the developing countries.
During this Japanese fiscal year (April 1, 2009 - March 31, 2010) the Government of
Japan funded 16 projects so far including these two in Yemen, amounting to USD 1.28
million
under the above mentioned Japanese scheme.
In the last Japanese fiscal year, Japan funded 16 projects in Yemen under the same
scheme with a total amount of more than USD 1.2 million.
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