Subject: [reg-easttimor 131] 日本政府が東ティモールの小学校改修に 123万ドルを
From: Koshida Kiyokazu <koshida@jca.apc.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 11:23:10 +0900
Seq: 131

日本政府は、東ティモールの初等教育に123万ドルの援助を決定。この援助は、は
東ティモールで小学校の改修工事を行なっているＵＮＩＣＥＦに対して行なわれ、
第二期に入った学校改修工事にあてられる。

Forwarded by Koshida Kiyokazu <koshida@jca.apc.org>
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Indonesian Observer
Sunday, July 30 - 2000  

Japan rebuilding schools in Timor

JAKARTA (IO) Japan has provided US$1.23 million to support primary 
education in East Timor, a statement from the Japanese Embassy said 
yesterday.

The contribution, channeled to the United Nations Children窶冱 Fund (UNICEF) 
through the embassy, is currently being spent on rebuilding primary 
schools that were destroyed by pro-Indonesia militia gangs last year.

The Japanese Embassy hopes the contribution will provide children in East 
Timor with greater education opportunities.

According to the statement, the Japanese government is the biggest 
supporter of UNICEF in East Timor, having provided US$3.63 million since 
last October, most of it to education and health projects.

"This contribution, which is most timely and very welcome, will help pay 
for more than 800 classrooms to be re-roofed," said Rodney Harfield 
UNICEF窶冱 representative in East Timor.

In the first phase of the program to the end of June, 250 classrooms were 
repaired, but phase two, aims to re-roof 800 more classrooms. The new 
roofs will provide shelter from the sun and rain for more than 30,000 
young children.

Although the basic repair work carried out by UNICEF by no means brings a 
school back to normal, in many cases it has acted as a catalyst. In 
several schools, parents have provided furniture they built themselves. In 
others, the US military and other groups repaired the floors, painted 
walls and provided furniture.

UNICEF has gained important experience during the first phase and will be 
expanding its workforce to tackle the much larger second phase, made 
possible by the contribution from Japan. Work gangs are being formed in 
each district to speed up the process and to ensure quality, and UNICEF 
will be paying the salary levels laid down by the UN Temporary 
Administration in East Timor (UNTAET).

In the first phase, units of the International Force in East Timor and the 
subsequent peacekeeping force carried out most of the actual repairs, with 
limited contributions from the East Timorese. 


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