Japanese project builds schools [Archives:2004/792/Local News]

By Sami al-Hadad
Taiz Bureau
Reflecting strong Japan-Yemen friendship and cooperation, and at the time Yemen is going on development through the local authorities forming a turning point towards the financial and administrative decentralization, the Japanese Grants and Aids Project (JGAP) appeared as an effective partner in development.
JGAP supported the local authorities in Taiz to reinforce the educational development allowing the authorities to be more active.
The JGAP planned to build and prepare 18 school buildings with facilities, of which 13 have been completed and received fully prepared with required school equipment and other educational aids. Five schools are supposed to be completed by the end of this year.
There are other achievements that were presented to improve the educational process such as the improvement of the school environmen .
The strategy of executing that depends on the successive coordination between the project, education office and the local authorities in Taiz.
Training many of the educational leaders from a number of schools is considered a part of the plan.
About the relation between the local council in Taiz and JGAP, Mohammed Ahmed al-Haj, Deputy governor and Secretary General of the council, said that it a strong relationship.
The program of training the educational leadership of some schools will last three years and it is a great step in the way of developing the level of education in all districts.
Hussien Hazib, General Manager of Education Office in Taiz, said about the JGAP's role in reinforcing the primary education that 'such grants contribute effectively in strengthening the organizational structure of education and it will improve its efficiency.
He said officials value the efforts of the Japanese embassy and what it offers to enable the project do its tasks. “The efforts of JGAP are tangible and of a positive effect either in the city of Taiz or in the districts it visits. We do confirm that we'll do whatever efforts we can in order to facilitate and pave the way for all their work.”
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