Ambassador's Speech

The Government of Japan has decided to extend a Sixty Thousand Four hundred Ninety Four US Dollars (US$67,494) grant in aid to Taibeh Charity Association and an agreement to that effect was signed on March 16, 2010 by His Excellency Mr. Tetsuo Shioguchi, Ambassador of Japan to Jordan and Mr. Ahmad Awad Al Qura’an, President of Taibeh Charity Association.

Taibeh Charity Association has been running a vocational training center, a kindergarten for underprivileged people as well as a rehabilitation facility for people with disabilities since the Association was established in 1964. Today’s grant will be donated for the purchase of medical equipment that will be installed at a health clinic which the Association will open soon this year. The assistance is expected to contribute to the improvement of medical services in Taibeh.

This grant is provided within the framework of Japanese Grant Assistance for GGP. Japan has donated more than US$ 6.7 million for 123 projects to nongovernmental organizations, schools, hospitals and local governments in Jordan for the last 16 years.

The total amount of 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 (JD 2,000,000,000).

As for the area of health, the Japanese Government has supported the improvement of medical system in providing ambulances and equipment at various hospitals in order to enhance the accessibility to medical care across the Kingdom.  The recent projects supported by the Japanese Government are as follows:

- The project for supporting the prevention of breast cancer to the health center in 2004 (87,617USD)

- The project for supporting the prevention of breast cancer to the King Hussein Cancer Foundation in 2005 (91,250USD)

- The project for the improvement of medical equipment for the labors clinic in 2005 (57,193USD)

- The project for provision of medical equipment to hospital in Karak and Ma’an and Al-Basheer Hospital in 2006 (4,500,000USD)

- The project for provision of medical equipment to clinic in Al-Wehdat Camp in 2007 (78,535USD)

- The project for provision of medical equipment to clinic in Husn Camp in 2007 (78,843USD)

- The project for Construction of Heaｌth Center in Ghal village, Diesah in 2009 (93,361USD)

- The project for Improvement of Medical Equipment for Al Hussein Labor Clinics in 2010 (90,269USD)