Assistance grant: Japan to help improve water supply

The grant contract was signed on February 14 at the Japan Information and Culture Centre.

KARACHI: The Government of Japan has extended a grant of $99,935 (Rs9.4 million) to the Sindh Community Foundation for a project to improve the water supply and sanitation systems of 27 flood-affected villages in Tando Muhammad Khan.

The grant contract was signed on Thursday at the Japan Information and Culture Centre between Consul General Akira Ouchi and Javed Hussain of the foundation.

The grant will be used to install 216 hand water pumps, five water supply systems and 200 public toilets in 27 villages.

This project has been fast-tracked within eight months in order to fix the systems which were destroyed largely by the 2011 flood.

It aims to improve the living conditions of more than 23,000 flood-affected people, especially women.

Japan has provided more than 200 grants in Pakistan since 1989.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 15^th, 2013.