南アフリカでのJICAの活動が新聞で紹介されました！

 

Pretoria - Japans’s International Co-operation Agency (Jica) has been running an overseas volunteer programme for 50 years and the Embassy in Pretoria recently undertook a tour to view some of the projects it supports in South Africa.Through the programme, Jica volunteers provide vital development assistance on behalf of the Japanese government. According to Ryan Keet of the embassy, more than 46 000 Japanese volunteers have worked in 96 countries in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, and Central and South America since the launch of the programme in 1965.
An Exchange of Notes agreement was signed between the Japanese and South African governments in 2001. Since then, 104 Japanese have volunteered in South Africa working in the fields of healthcare, personnel training, and maths and science education.

Takatsugi Iwataki, Volunteer Co-ordinator of Jica's South Africa office, said he had seen the impact the programme has had on the lives of South Africans. At present ,19 volunteers are in South Africa, working in Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal where they contribute to maths and science education.

In Limpopo, the tour included the Waterberg TVET College’s Business Studies Centre in Mahwelereng and the Hlanganani Service Centre in Ribungwani. In Mpumalanga, it included Sasol’s Osizweni Education and Development Centre in Secunda, Schoemansdal Combine school and the Ehlanzeni TVET College in Kanyamazane.

Osizweni s general manager Velaphi Gumbi said that without the Japanese volunteers Osizweni would not have been able to give teachers and pupils such an excellent mathematics and science education.

Selaelo Lekoloane, principal at Waterberg TVET College in Mokopane, praised volunteer Keisuke Inada, whose work with lecturers led to a marked improvement in the results f our maths students.
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