February 5, 2010
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Japan's Assistance for the Construction of a Rehabilitation School for People with Intellectual Disabilities and other Severe Disabilities in Mechinagar Sub-Municipality
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The Government of Japan has decided to extend financial assistance, in Japan’s FY 2009, of seventy-three thousand, five hundred and eighty-eight US Dollars (USD 73,588), equivalent to approximately five million, four hundred twelve thousand, three hundred and ninety seven Nepali Rupees (NPR 5,412,397), 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 today between His Excellency Mr. Tatsuo MIZUNO, Ambassador of Japan to Nepal, and Mr. 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 to be highly evaluated.
Speaking at the ceremony, H.E. 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. He expressed his wish that Samaj Sewa Sudhar Yuwa Sangh succeed in operating the Rehabilitation School in firm cooperation with Mechinagar Sub-Municipality, DDC Jhapa, Mechi Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the local people. Furthermore, he expressed his hope that disabled children will live in dignity and that the grant will play a symbolic role in further strengthening the relationship between Japan and Nepal.
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