WFP-Aided Projects
Japanese envoy 'impressed' as he visits Gaibandha
Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Shiro Sadoshima and other officials see the site of embankment-cum-road construction at Gazaria in Phulchhari upazila of Gaibandha district yesterday during a visit to different development works being implemented under the United Nations World Food Programme.Photo: STAR
Japan's Ambassador to Bangladesh Shiro Sadoshima has praised the operations of different projects under United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in two upazilas of the district. “We have been providing food assistance to Bangladesh through WFP. Today I was very impressed by what I saw here. I would like to thank WFP and the government of Bangladesh for their hard work. I am convinced that our support will help the poorest, most vulnerable and undernourished people in this region” said the ambassador after visiting the projects in Saghata and Phulchhari upazilas. The envoy reached Sigria Bazaar ghat (river terminal) by a seaplane and visited a WFP-supported community nutrition centre at Kalitola under Gajaria Union of Phulchhari upazila. He appreciated the ongoing project and exchanged views with the participants. He assured that Japan would provide more assistance to scale up nutrition operations in the poverty-stricken areas in the district. WFP in collaboration with local NGOs are operating as many as 129 community nutrition centres in different areas of Gaibandha district. Later, the ambassador saw the reconstruction work of an embankment-cum-road at Gajaria in the upazila. Around 392 male and female labourers have been engaged for reconstruction of the one-kilometre-long embankment-cum-road. He also joined a disaster preparedness training session there. The embankment will protect crops on 600 acres of land from floods. Over 3,000 villagers, including 700 students, can use the road during flood. In Saghata upazila, the envoy visited Bhangamore Primary School and distributed biscuits among the students under the School Feeding Programme of World Food Programme. He stayed with the students for half an hour and exchanged views with them. Christa Rader, country representative of World Food Programme (WFP), Nurjahan Begum, joint secretary of the Economic Relations Division, Soumya Proshad Adhikari, additional chief engineer of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) accompanied the Japanese ambassador.
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