Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Japanese assistance for rehabilitating school

Japan is helping Nepal rehabilitation of schools.
Charge d’ Affaires of the Embassy of Japan in Kathmandu Yuzo Yoshioka today signed a grant contract for Rehabilitating School and Building School Resilience to Disaster in Sindhupalchowk under Nepal Phase II with team leader at the Programme Department of Child Fund Japan Miho Nakajima.
The project is funded by the Japanese government and involves a grant assistance of $860,808 (approximately Rs 97.52 million).
At the grant signing ceremony, Charge d’ Affaires Yoshioka said that the project will foster and strengthen the capacity of public schools in Sindhupalchowk district in safeguarding children from natural disasters. In achieving this goal, ChildFund Japan, in partnership with local partner NGOs like Gramin Mahila Srijansil Pariwar, will provide multifaceted support to schools, School Management Committees (SMCs), and government officials by constructing seismic-resistant classrooms, conducting training on disaster risk reduction and Child Protection in Emergencies, and developing School Safety Plan which integrates earthquake drills in school.
The project will rehabilitate the School and Build School Resilience to Disaster in Sindhupalchowk district of Nepal and Yoshioka is certain that this project would give people more confidence to rebuild back better and also hoped that the project will contribute towards strengthening the cordial friendship between the peoples of Japan and Nepal.

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