Staff Correspondent
The Government of Japan recently extended a grant of USD 135,508, which is approximately BDT
14.7 million to two Bangladeshi NGOs, SKS Foundation and Good Neighbors Bangladesh. H.E. Mr.
IWAMA Kiminori, Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh, signed the ‘Grant Contracts’ for Grass-Roots
Human Security Projects (GGHSP) at the Embassy of Japan with the respective organizations.
SKS Foundation has been awarded USD 82,027 as a grant for The Project for Procurement of Eye Care
Equipment for SKS Eye Hospital in Gaibandha District. SKS Foundation has been working on various
activities, such as local capacity building, reduction of climate change vulnerability, elimination of
gender discrimination, and health/nutrition. With the assistance of the GGHSP funding, SKS
Foundation will procure two eye care equipment (1 Optical Coherence Tomography and 1 Visual Field
Analyzer) to provide quality and affordable eye care diagnosis and treatment in the targeted area.
Good Neighbors Bangladesh has been awarded USD 53,481 as a grant for the Project for the
Construction of Drinking Water Supply Facilities in Barguna District. Good Neighbors Bangladesh has
been working on poverty, health, employment support, disaster risk reduction, etc. With the
assistance of the GGHSP funding, Good Neighbors Bangladesh will construct a Drinking Water Supply
Facilities to increase access to safe and sustainable drinking water in local communities and improve
the lifestyles of local residents to make a difference in the current situation, where people are
collecting unsafe drinking and daily use water from the communal wells and ponds in the targeted
area.
Japan has supported 215 NGO projects through its Grant Assistance for Grass-Roots Human Security
Projects (GGHSP) since 1989 with the view to enhancing economic and social human security in the
grass-roots levels. The total sum of these GGHSP grants extended to NGOs in Bangladesh to date
amounts approximately to $16.9 Million.
Japan Extends BDT 14.7 Million to Two Grass-RootsHuman Security Projects
