Mozambique: Japan to donate funds to build classrooms in Nampula province

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Mozambique: Japan to donate funds to build classrooms in Nampula province

12:31 CAT | 06 Feb 2025

FILE - For illustration purposes only. [File photo: Lusa]

The government of Japan on Wednesday announced funding of US$72,780 to build classrooms at the Mecuburi Rural Family Polytechnic Institute, in Nampula province, northern Mozambique.

“The project aims to accommodate more than 200 students to carry out various activities, such as classes, application of new technologies, rural extension and improvement of the quality of service to boarding students,” reads a statement from the Japanese Embassy in Mozambique.

The funding was made available through the Japanese government’s Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) programme, and will be implemented by the educational institution itself.

According to the embassy of Japan, the buildings that will be constructed may benefit other young people from communities surrounding the institute, especially women in the region.

The Japanese government, one of the main funders of projects in Mozambique, recently pledged to continue cooperating with the country, and asking the Mozambican government to secure the rapid stabilisation of security and “dialogue” between all parties to address post-election tension in the country.

“Japan intends to continue cooperation with Mozambique for the prosperity of the people of both countries, based on long-standing friendship,” reads a statement by Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Kitamura Toshihiro released by the Japanese Embassy in Maputo.

“Japan hopes that the new Government of Mozambique will ensure a stable security situation as soon as possible and further promote democratic politics, promoting dialogue between all interested parties,” it added, regarding the inauguration of Daniel Chapo as the fifth President of Mozambique.

The process surrounding the general elections of October 9 was marked by consecutive demonstrations called by presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane, who does not recognize the election results, which degenerated into violence, looting and destruction of public and private infrastructure, with at least 327 deaths and around 750 people shot.

Japan previously announced that it will donate more than €50 million for projects in Mozambique, in accordance with agreements signed in March 2024 in Maputo, the first country to implement the new model of international cooperation defined by the Japanese government.

“This cooperation, in which projects in different areas are implemented in the form of a package, was presented in the new Charter for Development Cooperation approved by the Council of Ministers last year. Mozambique will be the first country where the Japanese government will implement this new form of cooperation,” the Japanese ambassador in Maputo, Hamada Keiji, announced at the time.

Source: Lusa