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Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 4.12 GMT |
Japan funds to improve livelihoods of Mannar
communities
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The Japanese Government through its "Grant
Assistance for Grassroots Human Security
Project (GGP)" has provided US$ 88, 020 to
improve livelihoods of communities in the
Mannar District.
The project titled "Sustainable Grass Root
Level Human Security Interventions in Mannar
District" is implemented by the "Community
Trust Fund (CTF)" and the fund will be
utilized to repair a total of 4.8 km length
of three roads in Sinna Karaisal, Hijra
Nagar and Olai Thoduwai villages in the
Mannar DS, a total of 1.6 km length of three
roads and 3 km length of irrigation channels
in Puthuvely, Alawaki, Malitan and
Rasoolputnuveli villages of Nanattan DS in
the Mannar District.
This project is expected to benefit a total
of 511 families directly and 2000 families
in-directly in the two DS areas by
increasing water supply to their
agricultural fields and improving their
mobility to carry out their livelihood
activities effectively.
The signing of this Grant Contracts took
place at the Embassy of Japan on December
10. Japanese Ambassador Kiyoshi Araki
together with Mr, S.H. Firdous, Managing
Trustee of CTF signed the Grant Contract in
the presence of other officials at the
Embassy of Japan in Colombo.
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