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| Wednesday, 11 June 2003 |
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The Government of Japan has recently decided to provide grant assistance to the office of "Peace Building Project through health project (PBP)" which comes under the Association of Medical Doctors of Asia (AMDA) to extend mobile health services and community health promotion activities in the Northern Province as well as in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka, states a Japanese Embassy press release. AMDA, a Japanese NGO, which was established in 1984 has a strong background in supporting health promotion and peace building activities in over fifty countries throughout the world including Afghanistan. India, Kosovo, Myanmar, Salvador, Zambia. AMDA is going to extend their health related projects in Sri Lanka by utilizing funds provided by the Government of Japan. AMDA started its peace building projects in February this year in Sri lanka and has been implementing mobile clinic services and health education projects in the Northern and Southern parts of Sri Lanka. The PBP has sent emergency medical relief teams with the close cooperation of AMDA Sri Lanka Chapter and St. John's Ambulance which is a local NGO, for the flood and landslide victims. The grant will be utilized to extend its mobile clinic services and health education activities, including school health, mainly to areas in the North and South. In addition, provision of a surgical operation with emphasis on plastic surgery for ruptured palate and facial disorders, for example, will also be implemented. The other Sri Lankan branch of the AMDA has also commenced a Community Rehabilitation Project in Jaffna by utilizing funds provided by the Government of Japan in March this year. That project aims to construct community centres with mini libraries and daycare facilities for children and the provision of necessary tools and equipment for basic activities such as cultivation and fishing and psycho-social counselling for the people in the North. The people and the Government of Japan hopes that from the point of view of the human security AMDA's project will directly benefit the people of this country and help to upgrade their living standards and medical services. The exchange of the Grant Contract took place at the Embassy of Japan on May 30. The Ambassador of Japan Seiichiro Otsuka and Ms. Yuko Hamada, Project Director of the AMDA signed the grant contract. Ms. Noriko Iseki, First Secretary, Embassy of Japan and Ms. Ayaka Tomita, project coordinator, Tatsuo Yamane, project coordinator, Ms. Rie Takeuchi, medical radiology technologist, Geethodana, project assistant and Ms. Srini Abhayagunaratne, secretary of the recipient organization were also present on this occasion. |
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