MANILA - The Japanese government has given a grant of $78,795 (about 3.6 million) to a non-government organization that would facilitate livelihood and capacity-building programs for Japanese-Filipino children and their Filipino mothers who were migrant workers to Japan before.
According to the Japanese embassy here, Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Makoto Katsura and Development Action for Women Network (DAWN) executive director Carmelita Nuqui signed the grant contract for “The Project for Building Capacities of Women and their Japanese-Filipino Children” on February 5, 2010 at the embassy of Japan.
The project, funded through the embassy of Japan's Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP), will provide various sewing and handloom weaving machines, as well as produce and disseminate a book that contains the typical situations and experiences of Japanese-Filipino children in the Philippines in order to promote the society’s understanding of them. Some expenses necessary for the trainings and seminars will also be shouldered by the grant assistance.
The growing concern over the distressed migrant women and their children, particularly those returned from Japan, resulted in the establishment of DAWN in 1996. Over the years, DAWN has been implementing psychosocial intervention and livelihood programs for women and children and more than 800 have benefited from DAWN’s various programs. With the aim of reaching out to more women and children, DAWN sought assistance from the embassy of Japan to expand the training programs and seminars.
The GGP was launched in the Philippines in 1989 for the purpose of reducing poverty and helping various communities engaged in grassroots activities. As of December 2009, more than 400 grassroots projects funded by GGP—ranging from roughly P1 million to P4 million—have been implemented by NGOs, local government units, and other non-profit organizations. The total grant for these projects so far amounts to $17,418,724.
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