http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Japan grants Yemen $199,000 for health, water projects [The Source: SANA'A/hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 10/11/2010] Japan extended on Wednesday two grants amounting to US$199,586 for two projects in health and water areas in Yemen. The grant will be utilized to a project for Constructing Aras Health Unit in Yareem District, Ibb governorate and a project for Improving Water Supply System in al-Mouza' district, Taiz governorate, according to a press release issued by the Japanese embassy.The grant of Aras Health Unit will benefit 8,000 people in Yareem district by funding the construction of a health unit and providing medical equipments.The other grant aims to improve the access to water by constructing a water supply system in al-Mouza' district, where around 800 people will avail from the project.The projects' contracts were signed by Japanese ambassador to Yemen Mitsunori Namba and Head of Fatimah Al-Zahra Organization in Arasa area, Ibb governorate Shadia al-Arasi and Principal of Al-Mouza' Agricultural Cooperative Association in Taiz governorate Mohammed al-Salahi.The two grants has come under Japan's grant assistance 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 water in developing countries. In the last Japanese fiscal year, Japan funded 18 projects in Yemen under the Grass-Roots scheme with a total amount of USD 1.5 millio