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February 15, 2010
Japan pledges US $ 73,588 for disabled-Nepal
The following information was downloaded from the mailing list of "Disability and Development" with a cooperation of the publisher, Mr. Soya Mori.
The government of Japan has decided to extend financial assistance of US$ 73,588 to Samaj Sewa Sudhar Yuwa Sangh (Disabled Helping Committee) for the implementation of the project for the construction of a Rehabilitation School for People with Intellectual Disabilities and other Severe Disabilities in Mechinagar Sub-Municipality.
This financial assistance is extended under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) scheme of the Government of Japan.
A grant contract to this effect was signed and exchanged recently between Ambassador of Japan to Nepal Tatsuo Mizuno and Dharma Raj Ghimire, President of Samaj Sewa Sudhar Yuwa Sangh, Mechinagar.
The project is to complete a facility to provide opportunities for receiving education and rehabilitation to disabled children. The recipient organization constructed the ground floor, in October 2009, with local supporters including Mechinagar Sub-Municipality. This time, the grant is to be exclusively utilized for the additional construction of the first and second floors, consisting of 13 rooms, furniture, and necessary equipment in the existing building.
The building is to be utilized as a Rehabilitation School, providing education, rehabilitation, and vocational training for 50 children with disabilities. 9 visually-impaired, 10 hearing-impaired, 11 physically-impaired, and 20 mentally impaired children are to be enrolled in the hostel.
The Samaj Sewa Sudhar Yuwa Sangh consists of staff with disabilities who have energetically worked on various programs since 2004 in order to promote the disabled people’s right for a quality life. The leading role that they are playing to provide children with education, rehabilitation, and vocational training - aiming to help them to be socially and economically independent, is highly evaluated.
Speaking at the ceremony, ambassador Mizuno mentioned Japan’s grant aid to Nepal since 1994 in contributing to realization of the goal of the "Education for All by 2015" Program. He also explained the difficult circumstances surrounding disabled people in Nepal and that the project supports the basic rights of children through contributing education to disabled children. nepalnews.com
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