KATHMANDU, Nepal – The Rehabilitation Center for Patients with Muscular Dystrophy in Shankharapur Municipality, Kathmandu District, was formally handed over by the Government of Japan on Tuesday. Tamura Takahiro, the Charge d’Affaires advert interim of Japan to Nepal, attended the ceremony.
The Muscular Dystrophy Foundation-Nepal (MDF-Nepal) acquired a beneficiant grant of USD 95,235 (roughly NPR 10.9 million) from the Government of Japan underneath the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP). This monetary assist enabled the conclusion of the rehabilitation heart mission.
During the ceremony, Tamura congratulated and expressed his appreciation for the collective efforts of all these concerned within the mission. He emphasised that the newly established rehabilitation heart wouldn’t solely cater to the wants of muscular dystrophy sufferers but in addition improve MDF-Nepal’s current medical initiatives, resulting in the supply of higher-quality companies.
Tamura expressed his hope that the power would supply acceptable remedy to sufferers, contributing to their well being and welfare and that of their households.
MDF-Nepal was established in 2003 by households who had tragically misplaced their youngsters to muscular dystrophy. As the one group in Nepal devoted to addressing this illness, MDF-Nepal has performed a vital position in increasing data and consciousness whereas offering important psychological well being care to sufferers and their households.
With the assist of the Japanese authorities, MDF-Nepal can now supply more practical companies by the newly constructed heart. The Embassy believes that this help will additional deepen the friendship between the individuals of Japan and Nepal.
The Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) was created to implement tasks that instantly profit communities on the grassroots stage, selling socio-economic growth. Since its institution in 1991, over 200 GGP tasks have been efficiently applied in Nepal.