Japan supports education and health projects in Yemen
The Source: sana'a/hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 03/03/2010
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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.
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