http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Japan offers $ 100,000 to improve education in Yemen [The Source: www.sabanews.net - 17/11/2008] he Japanese embassy in Yemen announced on Sunday granting $ 100,000 to Timprove the educational environment in the schools targeted by Bridge project to develop girl education. The announcement came during signing a minute of completing Bridge project, being carried out currently in Taiz governorate, by the Deputy Education Minister Abdullah al-Hamadi and the resident representative of Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Sana'a. The minute stipulated the continuation of Bridge project, training teaches and heads of the targeting schools and creating a mechanism for the direct transferring of the financial allocations to the accounts of the target schools. Moreover, the ministry should approve appointing 125 teachers, of whom the project has contracted with, in addition to extending the projects to add 60 new schools besides the 59 current ones in throughout the governorate districts.