| The Government of Japan, under its Grassroots Grant Assistance (GGA) Scheme, decided to extend an assistance of US$ 106,065 for the project for construction of Kan Tet Kone Ma Soe Yein Monastic Primary School in Mandalay, Mandalay Region.
Mr. Takashi Saito, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of Japan in the Union of Myanmar, and U Win Hlaing Oo, Chairman of Kan Tet Kone Ma Soe Yein Monastic Primary School Construction Committee, signed the grant contract on February 15, 2011.
This monastic school has attracted many students with the number of students increasing to more than seven hundred because it has charged low school fees in providing formal education to children. The school has not been able to accept all the students due to the shortage of classrooms, and the students are taught in the existent buildings or a temporary bamboo schoolhouse.
The two-storey reinforced concrete school building, which comprises of 6 classrooms, toilets and school furniture will be funded under the GGA Scheme to enable the monastic school to provide a better learning environment. This assistance will benefit students in their pursuit of formal studies, thereby further strengthening existing friendly relations between Japan and Myanmar.
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