Press Release on March 14, 2010

Japan signs a Grant Contract of US$ 79,449 with Jordan Psychiatric Rehabilitation Society for the Project for Improvement of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Facilities
 

Ambassador's Speech
 

 

  

     

 

 

The Government of Japan has decided to extend a Seventy Nine thousand Four Hundred Forty Nine US Dollars (US$79,449) grant aid to Jordan Psychiatric Rehabilitation Society and an agreement to that effect was signed on March 14, 2010 by His Excellency Mr. Tetsuo Shioguchi, Ambassador of Japan to Jordan and Mrs. Haifa Al-Bashir, President of Jordan Psychiatric Rehabilitation Society.

 

Jordan Psychiatric Rehabilitation Society was established in 1989 to provide specialized rehabilitation care as well as supervising and following up the treatment of those who need its services. In 2003 the society opened Al-Safsaf Rehabilitation center in Na’our to provide care for the mentally and addicted persons in cooperation with their families and to assist in finding job opportunities once rehabilitation is over.

 

Today’s grant aid is the second one by the Embassy to the Society. The first grant aid was in 2002 and amounted to US$73,081.

 

These grants are provided within the framework of Japanese Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects (GGP). Japan has donated more than US$ 6.7 million for 121 projects to non-governmental organizations, schools, hospitals, and local governments in Jordan for the last 16 years.

 

The total amount of the Japanese economic cooperation which has been extended to the people in Jordan for the last decades is more than 3 Billion United States dollars (US$ 3,000,000,000), more than Two Billion Jordanian Dinars (2,000,000,000).

 

     As for the area of supporting people with disabilities, the Japanese Government has supported several projects in order to enhance  the accessibility to the special education and r   rehabilitation service. The recent projects supported by the Japanese Government are following:

 

1) The project for supporting children with hearing difficulties in 2004 (Entity: South Society for Special Education/Grant: 100,850USD)

2) The project for the supply of equipment for the center for the mentally handicapped in 2005 (Entity: The National Association for the Mentally Handicapped/Grant: 15,642USD)

3) The project for the Improvement of the Center for Special Education in Al-Khalidiya in 2006 (Entity: Al-Khalidiya Society for Special Education/Grant: 50,394USD)

4) The Project for the Improvement of Educational Equipment for the Center for Special Education in 2006(Entity: Princess Alia Bint Al-Hussein Center for Special Education/Grant: 14,923USD)

5) The Project for the Enhancement of Service Quality of Al Raja Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children in 2008 (Entity: Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development (JOHUD)/Grant: 29,237USD)

6) The Project for Improvement of Educational Facility of the Friendship Association of the Blind in 2008 (Entity: The Friendship Association of the Blind/Grant: 59,085USD)

7) The Project for Empowering the Local Committee for the Mentally and Physically Disabled in the Ghor (Entity: Jordan River Foundation /Grant: 75,018USD)

8) The Project for Construction a Second Floor addition to the Moab Center for Special Education (Entity: Al-Khaldieh Charitable Society/Grant: 96,751USD)

 

This assistance would be expected further promote the existing significant partnership between our two countries.

 


For further inquiries | Back to top