Japanese Embassy commemorates the completion of the Project for Renovation of Kabbat Beshumra Charitable School in Akkar

(24 November 2009)

Charge d'Affaires a.i. of Embassy of Japan, Mr. Tatsuyuki Ueda, visited on Tuesday 24 November, 2009, the school of Kabbat Beshumra Charitable Association in Akkar, where a project for renovation of the school has completed. The project, funded by the Government of Japan through its “Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Project (GGP)”, aims at improvement of the educational services in a remote area. The Embassy and the Association have signed the grant contract of US$88,862 on 26 December, 2006 for this aim.

Japan’s GGP supports development projects at grass-roots level proposed by such bodies as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and local governmental authorities in Lebanon. Japan has so far extended through GGP more than US$ 9 million since 1996.