The Government of Japan provides grants totaling over US$400,000 for financing human security projects in the Republic of Moldova. The official ceremony for signing the grant contract for the implementation of projects financed within the Grant Assistance for Human Security Projects of the Grassroots Program “Kusanone” will take place on March 2, IPN reports.

The Embassy of Japan in Moldova in a press release says that six project to the value of over US$ 444,000 were approved for financing by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan for the Japanese fiscal year. The contracts are to be signed by Japan’s Ambassador in Chisinau Masanobu Yoshii and empowered representatives of beneficiary institutions.

The program “Kusanone” was launched in Moldova in 2008. In 2008-2016, 38 projects (without the six aforementioned grants), mainly in public health and school and preschool education, received grants of over US$3.3 million from Japan.

Among the recipients of financing through “Kusanone” in the Japanese fiscal year 2016 are the project to modernize the medical equipment of the Briceni District Hospital to the value of almost US$80,000, the project to modernize the medical equipment of the clinical immunology and allergy lab of the University of Medicine “Nicolae Testemitanu to the value of about US$83,000, and the project to modernize the medical equipment of the Institute of Cardiology to the value of over US$82,000.