The Government of Japan has extended a grant of $ 99,935 (Rs 9.4 million) to the Sindh Community Foundation (SCF) for improving water supply and sanitation systems of 27 flood-affected villages in Tando Muhammad Khan under its Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) scheme.
The grant contract was signed on February 14th at the Japan Information and Culture Centre between Consul-General of Japan Akira Ouchi and SCF Executive Director Javed Hussain.
The grant would be utilised by SCF for the installation of 216 hand water pumps, five water supply systems and 200 public toilets altogether in 27 villages in the district. The project would provide the people of the targeted area with a better access to clean drinking water and improved sanitation with privacy.
At the signing ceremony, Japanese consul-general Akira said that this project had been materialised on fast-track basis within right months in order to recover the water supply and sanitation systems which were destroyed largely by the 2011 floods, and to contribute to the betterment of the living conditions of more than 23,000 flood-affected people, especially women. Furthermore, Akira suggested that this project could also be a model case for other communities in Pakistan in the future, and wished that it would promote friendly relationship between Japan and Pakistan.
Under the GGP scheme, Japan had previously provided more than 200 grant assistance in Pakistan since 1989, and this project would be the eighth GGP project undertaken by the Consulate General of Japan at Karachi since 2009.
