ISLAMABAD: Japan has provided assistance worth $ 83,230 to Al-Mustafa Trust for provision of better health facilities to disadvantaged communities in Rawalpindi.
According to details, the Japanese government extended the grant for installing new medical equipment at its medical centre in Chaklala, Rawalpindi, to better serve the underprivileged communities in surrounding areas.
Japan extended this grant under its Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) Programme to implement the social development project for the betterment of the disadvantaged communities of Pakistan.
The agreement for the project was signed Tuesday at the Al-Mustafa Trust’s head office in Rawalpindi, between Charg’d Affaires ad Interim of Japan to Pakistan, Junya Matsuura and chairman of the trust Lt Gen (r) Muhammad Mustafa Khan.
The grant provided by Japan will assist in the installation of new digital X-ray machine and up-gradation of physiotherapy equipment to one of Al-Mustafa Trust’s medical centres located in Chaklala, Rawalpindi.
The project is expected to assist Al-Mustafa Trust in addressing healthcare needs of local underprivileged communities with a better quality and easily accessible facility.
Junya Matsuura, at the signing ceremony, appreciated the Al-Mustafa Trust in providing reliable and affordable medical facilities and wished for successful implementation of the project.
So far, during the current Japanese fiscal year (April 2016 – March 2017), the government of Japan has provided financial assistance of worth $ 500,362 to six Pakistani NGOs under the GGP programme that includes a public-private partnership project while more projects for this year are in pipeline.
