SCHG’s center receives about 350 hearing- or speech-impaired children every day, but it still has over 60 children in its waiting list. This grant will be utilized to improve the availability of an infant hearing test for early detection. It will also enable SCHG to make better diagnostic and therapeutic care available to hearing- and speech-impaired people in Gaza without severe delay, it said.

GGP scheme is specifically designed to address basic needs from human security perspective, which include water and electricity supply, health care, primary education and to support deprived people.

In the Japanese Fiscal Year 2010, a total of $1,068,288 for eleven projects in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were funded by the government of Japan under GGP scheme, which is a part of Japan’s total assistance to the Palestinians since 1993 amounting to about $ 1.21 billion.

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