9 February 2006: Additional Assistance to Emergency Grant Aid to Pakistan through International Organizations for Large-Scale Earthquake Disaster
Following the United Nations' Flash appeal, the Government of Japan has announced an additional assistance of 20 million dollars to Pakistan to support its relief activities for the victims of the South Asia earthquake on 8 October.
The assistance will be provided through international organizations, and 1.3 million dollars will be disbursed for UNESCO in order to finance a project of reactivation and stabilisation of the school system in the affected areas.
This project is composed of the following activities:
Training and reorientation of teachers: teachers are trained to cope with their own stress, in basics of psychological needs of children, their peers and in techniques of teaching in temporary facilities with multi-grade classes
Re-establishment of secondary, technical and vocational education: work with educational authorities in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and AJK to re-establish middle, high, higher secondary and technical/vocational schools, including the teaching of skilled trades (masonry, carpentry) linked to the upcoming reconstruction.
Management training of 400 district education officers and other local officials to reactivate manage and monitor local education systems. Training sessions are designed to fit the professional needs of every person concerned. Example of contents:
Peer psychological support
Basic educational planning and management in post-disaster reconstruction settings
Managing school-building reconstruction; of education of children with special needs; relations with the private sector
Managing educational projects
Planning and monitoring the restart of secondary, vocational and technical education
Personnel; advisory services and partnership arrangements
Logistical assistance
Approximately 60,000 children, 600 teachers and 100 schools in the most affected districts will benefit from this project.
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