Kumudini, Jaago get Tk 90 lakh in funds from Japan

Japan has provided a grant of Tk 70 lakh to Kumudini Welfare Trust of Bengal Ltd and Tk 20 lakh to Jaago Foundation Trust.

Japanese Ambassador Ito Naoki signed 'Grant Contracts' for its Grass-roots Human Security Projects (GGHSP) -- through which the funds are disbursed -- at the Embassy of Japan with Rajiv Prasad Shaha, managing director of Kumudini Welfare Trust, and separately with Korvi Rakshand, chairman of Jaago Foundation, said a press statement yesterday.

Kumudini was awarded the grant for "The Project for the Installation of Central Oxygen Supply System at Kumudini Hospital in Tangail District".

Kumudini has been operating to ensure health, socio-economic and welfare of poor and vulnerable women through its hospital, educational institutions, and training facilities.

With the assistance of the funding, Kumudini will procure and install medical oxygen storage pressure vessels and gas pipeline that will ensure adequate oxygen supply and adequate medical care to critically-ill patients and others at Kumudini Hospital.

Jaago was awarded the grant for "The Project for Providing Bus Service for the Students and the Community Teachers in Bandarban District".

Since its establishment in 2007, Jaago has been working to provide educational opportunities to underprivileged children and promoting volunteer youth activities for youth development.

With the funding, it will support students and community teachers of its Jaago Bandarban School with a school bus to travel to and from the remote location to the school, the statement added.

Japan has supported 200 NGO projects through its GGHSP since 1989, with the view to enhancing economic and social human security in the grass-roots levels. The total sum of these grants extended to NGOs in Bangladesh to date amounts to approximately $16 million.