Japan supports Education and Health Projects in Yemen

SANA'A, March 17 (Saba)- Japan
has decided to extend two grants amounting to YR 41.46 million for two education and
health
projects in Aden and Mahweet.
''Japan has decided to extend a grant amounting to YR 20.98 million for the project
of “Improving Environment of Home Economics Education at Al-Qadesiya School for
Girls
in Aden province”, and another grant amounting to YR 20.48 million for the project
of “Constructing a Health Centre in Bani Sa’ad District in Mahweet province", the
Japanese
Embassy said on Wednesday.
In a press release, the embassy made it cleared that the two grants 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.
The first grant is to the General Education Office in Aden to build two classrooms
and provide cooking and sewing training equipments targeting 640 girls studying in
grades
7-9 at Al-Qadesiya School in order to help them acquire home economic skills.
The second grant is to the Mahweet Health Office to upgrade the current health unit
by constructing a new health centre in order to improve its services. Up 3,250
residents
in 34 villages in Bani Sa’ad will have its benefits.
Mr. Mitsunori Namba, ambassador of Japan to Yemen signed the agreements of the two
grants with Ms. Ibtisam Salih Ali, Girls Education Manager at Aden Education Office
and
Dr. Ameen Mohammed Hubaish, the Director of the Mahweet Health Office.
During this Japanese fiscal year (April 1, 2009 - March 31, 2010) Japan funded 18
projects so far including these two in Yemen, amounting to about USD 1.5 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.
MD/YA