Japan helps build training center and emergency shelter, and health facility

 Japan has helped Nepal construct building training center and emergency shelter, and also for making sanitary napkins to support the hygiene of poor women in Birgunj Municipality.

The Charge d'Affaires of Japan to Nepal Ypsjioka Yuzo today signed a grant contract with the Community Development Center (CDC) to build a training center and emergency shelter in Rautahat district. The construction is expected to cost approximately Rs 91.5 million, according to a press note issued by the Japanese Embassy in Kathmandu.

The project for building the training center and emergency shelter facility in Rautahat district is funded under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project (GGP) of the government of Japan. 

At the online signing ceremony, Yoshioka said that the project will help to promote the welfare and security of people in Rautahat district.

The Community Development Center was established in 1998 and has been providing trainings related to disaster prevention, vocational training, and that aimed to support education of children in the district. “The Embassy of Japan in its press note said that it believes that the project will also contribute towards further enhancing the friendship that exists between the people of Japan and Nepal.

Meanwhile, Yoshioka today also signed a grant contract with chairperson of Centre for Health and Environment Conservation (CHEC) Nepal Damodar Prasad Yadav for installing a machine for making sanitary napkins to support the hygiene of poor women in Birgunj Municipality.

The project is also funded under the GGP of the Japanese government and involves a grant of about Rs 4 million, the press note reads.

At the online grant signing ceremony, Yoshioka said that he believes the project will support many poor women to access sanitary napkins at low cost, and contribute towards improving their personal hygiene.

CHEC Nepal – established in 2009 – has been carrying out health and hygiene improvement programmes in public schools alongside environmental preservation activities in Parsa district.

“The support will contribute towards further enhancing the friendship between the peoples of Japan and Nepal,” according to the Embassy of Japan in Kathmandu.