Japan to provide $6.28 lakh for human security

Japan will provide US $ 628,000 as grant for seven grassroot projects in Bangladesh on human security encompassing healthcare services to mothers, children and physically challenged people and arsenic mitigation.
Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Shiro Sadoshima signed the grant for three of the projects with representatives of the three respective implementing organisations at the Embassy of Japan yesterday.
The three projects would be implemented by Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), Arsenic Mitigation and Research Foundation (AMRF) and Unitarian Service for Development and Peace (USDP).
Four other organisations, to implement the remaining four projects, will sign the grant on March 18, says a press release of the embassy.
CRP will use its share of the grant, US $ 102,082, to construct a four-storied “Rehabilitation Centre” in Rajshahi.
This centre will help physically challenged people access healthcare and therapeutic services, including physiotherapy, occupational, speech and language therapy, orthotics and prosthetics. It is expected to rehabilitate 23,440 people while providing vocational training to 100 people per year.
AMRF will use its share, US$ 86,208, to construct a two-storied hospital for mothers and children in Munshiganj, which expects to serve 15,700 seekers of maternal and neonatal healthcare per year.
USDP will use US $ 97,539 it is getting to construct a one-storied hospital, capable of providing emergency reproductive and child healthcare services, for people of the minority community of Barguna district.