Japan funds Tongan village water supply projects [1]
Monday, August 14, 2006 - 19:15. Updated on Thursday, July 16, 2015 - 12:17.
Targeting its aid in Tonga where the need is most urgent, at the grassroots level, the Japanese Government has granted over $400,000 for more village water projects.
Between1993-2005 Japan has financed 50 village water supply system projects under its Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security projects (GGP).
On Friday, August 11, Keiko Konosu, the Second Secretary at the Japanese Embassy in Suva, on her second visit to Tonga this year, signed Grant contracts valued at $416,949 pa...anga to finance yet another three water supply projects for the villages of Hofoa, Lakepa and for Tupou College in Tongatapu.
Keiko said during this visit to Tonga, she would commission five new water supply systems, one in Tongatapu, at the village of Vaotu...u and two each in Vava...u and Ha...apai.
Keiko said that the Japanese assistance was in line with the commitment made by Japan at the 2006 Pacific Island Summit Meeting that was held in Japan in May, where leaders of Pacific Island Countries and Japan adopted the Okinawa Partnership Declaration "for a more robust and prosperous Pacific Region."
Earlier in May this year, Keioko commissioned six new water supply systems for the villages of Nukuhetulu, ...Utulau, Hoi, Manuka, Lomaiviti and Puke. These water systems were financed under the GGP program, for the amount of $606,961 pa...anga.
Keioko said that on her next visit to Tonga she will commission six more water supply projects.
Between 1993 and 2005 Japan has funded a total of 167 village projects, valued at US$5,110,889 in Tonga, and 50 of these projects were water supply projects.