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Japan extends a grant to a grass-root project in Bureyqah district Aden governorate

The Government of Japan decided to extend a grant to a grass-root project in Aden Governorate under the Japanese scheme called “Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects.” This scheme aims at supporting small scale community-based projects in the area of basic human needs, such as primary health care, basic education and rural water supply in the developing countries.

H.E. Mr. Masakazu Toshikage, Ambassador of Japan to the Republic of Yemen, signed today in Sana’a, an agreements to this effect with Ms. Rahimah Qasim Sa’id, Director General of Al-Rahmah Society for Mentally Retarded Children, in Aden Governorate.

The grant, in the amount of YR17million, will be used to fund the project for rehabilitating Al-Bureyqah Mentally Retarded Children School in Bureyqah city, Aden Governorate. The grant aims at improving the education environment for the mentally retarded children, and encourages more families to send their children affected by such a disease, to this school to qualify them and prepare them to adapt to the society.

This is the fourteenth grass-root project funded by the Government of Japan in the Republic of Yemen during the current Japanese fiscal year (April 2008–March 2009), totaling up to US$1,049,384 under the above-mentioned scheme. During the past Japanese fiscal year, April 2007-March 2008), Japan funded 17 grass-roots projects in Yemen amounting to US$1,337,350 under the same scheme.

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