Ambassador of Japan in Rwanda, Takayuki Miyashita and Saint Joseph Nzuki Vocational Training’s headmaster, Father Gerard Hakizimana, signed the grant contract on 22 January 2018 at the Embassy of Japan.
Under the contract, the Embassy agreed to provide USD81, 857, to Saint Joseph Nzuki Vocational Training Center, to construct a dormitory for 400 students.
Almost half of the students are orphan, who were exempted from their tuitions and dormitory fees.
Ambassador Miyashita expressed his happiness in supporting Saint Joseph Nzuki VTC, “which plays a significant role in vocational trainings for orphans and children from poor households in Ruhango District.”
He expressed his hopes that the students will make good use of the accommodation in order to study hard for their future.
Saint Joseph Nzuki Vocational Training Center provides vocational trainings to about 300 students in Ruhango district. The new dormitory is expected to provide proper accommodation to the students, reduce the number of students who walk along ways to school, and allow the school to accept 100 more students who are put on a wait-list.
For the last 20 years, the embassy of Japan has supported approximately 90 projects in the areas of education, water, and sanitation as well as agricultural development.
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