Japan assists the Center for Development Services in Zgharta

(17 March 2010)

Japan supports the Center for Development Services for equipping its dispensary in Zgharta. This support is aimed at improving the health condition of people in a remote area. Ambassador of Japan to Lebanon Mr. Koichi Kawakami and Director of the Center for Development Services in Zgharta, Mrs. Zeina Joukhadar Frangieh, signed the grant contract of US$86,430 to this effect at the Embassy of Japan on 17 March 2010.

This is funded by “Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Project (GGP)” of Japan. 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.