Japan spends over $10m on community projects in Nigeria

The Japanese Government has spent 11 million dollars for 158 community projects under its Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project (GGP)  in various regions in Nigeria since 1998.

In a statement from the Japanese Embassy in Abuja on Thursday, Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy, Masaya Otsuka, made this known at the commissioning of two vocational centres in Bwari.

Otsuka said the centres, located in Durumi and Sabo-Gida communities, were executed under the GGP.

“High rate of unemployment is one of the key socio-economic challenges in Nigeria.

“According to the Initiative for Food Environment and Health Society, about 7,500 people seek for vocational training in Bwari Area Council.

“As one of the measures to mitigate the situation, the Embassy of Japan has decided to fund the projects to establish vocational training facilities and procure training equipment that can be available to the people.”

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The centres were handed over to the National Commission for Mass Literacy and the implementing partners, Initiative for Food Environment and Health Society and Tabitha Cumi Foundation.

NAN reports that the overall goal of GGP is to enhance the well-being of people at the grassroots level, based on the concept of human security.

Others are primary education, illiteracy reduction, vocational training, governance, and human resource development in communities.

Others are primary health care, family planning, HIV and AIDS, rehabilitation for people with disabilities, and communicable diseases, women empowerment, and education for girls.