Japanese grant for emergency shelter

Kathmandu, Jan. 22

Japan has decided to provide grant to the Community Development Centre to build a training centre and emergency shelter in Rautahat district.

Charge d'Affaires a.i. of Japan to Nepal, Yoshioka Yuzo signed a grant contract with the centre at an online ceremony on Friday to support Rs. 91.5 million for the project.

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

Yoshioka said the project will help to promote the welfare and security of people in the district.

The Community Development Centre was established in 1998 and has been providing training on disaster prevention, vocational training, and that aimed to support education of children in the district.

Meanwhile, Yoshioka also signed a grant contract with Damodar Prasad Yadav, chairperson of centre for Health and Environment Conservation (CHEC) Nepal, 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 and involves a grant of about Rs. 4 million.

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 23 January 2021.