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| Project
Overview |
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| ■Duration: |
- Emergency aid period: February-June
2002
- Rehabilitation and Development
period: since 2002
We are currently working on long-term expansion of
the projects
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| ■Beneficiaries: |
- Medical project: about 60000 residents in Gulrun
District, Herat Province
- Environmental project: 25 families
in farming villages, Western Herat Province
- Educational project: about 5500
students in Taki school, Feqri School and Herat Agricultural
High school
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| ■What We Do: |
- Medical project: providing hospital
equipments, building local health centers, implementing
treatment and prevention of TB, training local doctors
- Environmental project: reforestation projects and
agricultural projects based on nursery management
and kitchin gardens owned by local people
- Educational project: renovating
school buildings in urban areas, providing school
supplies and study materials
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| Project
Chronology |
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| February
2002: | Opened NICCO Herat Office in Herat Province,
Gulran District |
| April:
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Started training program of local medical staff.Provision
of supplies to Feqri Girl's School: desks, chairs, carpets
and other school suppliers.
Provision of supplies to
the dormitory of Herat Agricultural High School: beddings
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| May:
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Made a medical support contract
with the Ministry of Public Health. Started T.B.-treatment
programs based on Afghanistan national T.B.-treatment
Program in the out-country region in Gulran, near Turkmenistan. |
| August: |
Completed the renovation of Taki shcools
(elementary, junior and high school) |
| November:
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Provision of supplies to 760 students
from poor families in Taki school: study materials |
| December:
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Organized a series of lecture of permaculture
by the Australian expert in the Agricultural Department
of Heart University and Herat Agricultural High School. |
| February
2003: |
Lend-lease of ambulance cars to Gulran District Hospital.
Provision of supplies to Herat Agricultural High School;
kitchen wares and other living supplies for the purpose
of improving educational and living environment. Started
fostering of more than 60.000 seedlings of vegetables
and fruits in the Agricultural Department of Herat University.
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| March:
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Started classes of kitchen
gardens (privately owned small farms) for women in poor
families and provided them with the vegetable seedlings,
in House Kalpos, Golwar. |
| May: |
Completed the renovation of Gulran District
Hospital.
Started construction of Public Health Center in the three
villages, Lahrab, Gulran Khogiani, Totichee villages. |
| June:
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First harvest of vegetables
in the kitchen gardens. |
| September:
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106 registered T.B. patients
completed the T.B.-treatment Program.
Invited the Australian expert for the evaluation of the
agricultural projects and for the training of students
in the Agricultural Department. |
| December:
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Completed the construction
of the branch hospitals in Lahrab village, Gulran Khogiani
village, Totichee village.
Handed over the operation of the medical projects to the
local NGO.
Completed the construction of kitchen and bathroom of
the dormitory of Herat Agricultural High School. |
| March
2004: |
Completed the construction
of irrigation in Khoja Sarbor Village, where friendship
planting of Hazara and Pashtoon was realized.
Distributed seedlings to the five newly participating
villages as well as to Golwar village in West Herat.
Started fostering of seedlings (the second crop) including
pistachio in the vacant spaces after distributing the
seedlings |
| April:
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Started monitoring of the families
participating in KG (kitchen garden project.) |
| July:
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Provision of supplies to the
families participating in KG this year: farming tools.
Organized training sessions of water conservation in dry
seasons. Donated generators to the 3 branch hospitals
in Gulran District, which made the indoor lights in the
hospital on. They were also used to pump up water from
the well to the rooftop, which enabled people to obtain
water from the faucets. |
| August:
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Support to the 5 KG participating
villages in West Herat hit by the drought at striking
damages. The support includes financial aid to repaire
the pumps as well as the other emergency measures against
the drought. |
| October:
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Organized cultural exchange
classes in Taki Elementary School: classes of calligraphy
with work of calligraphy sent from the students of a Japanese
elementary school. Repaired 95 desk-bench-for-3 persons,
which had been donated to Taki School one year ago. |
| November:
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Donation entrusted by *Lala
in Nara : blankets and heaters to Khaja Abdulla Ansari
Orphanage in Herat. |
| February
2005: |
Distributed seedligs to six villages in West Herat
and Khoja Sarbor Village in a larger amount than last
year's.
Planted cutttage of original seeds inside the site of
the resorvoir in Khoja Sarbor Village.
Started fostering
of seedlings (3rd crop) of pistachio and other plants.
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| April
2005 |
Invited experts from Iran and organized the first workshop
of soil inspection at the Agricultural Department of
Herat University, in which the basic method of soil
inspection by the machines donated by NICCO was instructed.
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MMedical Projects |
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| Staff
comment |
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Tomoko Sato
Director Herat/Mashad Office
Her mission in Iran and Afghanistan amounted to
two years and three months from her first dispatch
in December 2002 to June 2005.
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-Leaving the mission in Iran and Afghanistan-
I started working in NICCO Kyoto Office in April 2002
and then began to take care of the projects in Iran
and Afghanistan. My main job was communication and coordination
between Kyoto and Iran and Afghanistan and fund-raising,
which was mostly desk-work. After another 8 months,
finally I was given a mission to work in the field,
in Iran and Afghanistan. It was an utterly exiting moment
when my dream from high school--to work for developing
countries in the field--got realized.
There are so many things I learned through my mission
in Iran and Afghanistan. And if I would choose one or
two as the most valuable of them, they should be:
--Importance of the attitude to accept local situations
while urging local people to understand our efforts.
--Power of the communication without words between
experts.
At first, during the first year in the field, I was
so strongly determined to achieve the goals as planned
that it was not easy to spend a single day without getting
irritated by the local pace; at least three days were
necessary to finish merely a one-day plan; even a tiny
registering procedure took several months; people would
not mind the circumstances like these, saying "it
is always the case in this country", "no one
is to be blamed for it".
But gradually I learned to accept the local realities
which any crying or screaming could change. I also learned
to talk to the people with patience, explaining it was
crucial to keep time in Japanese society. The change
of my behavior eventually brought a success in making
local people haste a little more than before.
Secondly, as for the power of communication without
words, I discovered it when the Australian expert of
permaculture and the other Japanese experts of DTP and
publishing came to work here. They instantly came up
with suggestions for the ongoing plans by the precise
understanding and analysis of the situation. They managed
to convey their ideas to the local experts even though
they did not understand each other's language.
I witnessed the scene where the experts of same area
were communicating without relying on words. I was deeply
impressed by this and thought, "communication between
people who have mastered something particular goes beyond
"international" and reaches to "universal".
NICCO will continuously execute the projects of self-reliance
support based on job training, implement of irrigation/reforestation
and revitalization of agriculture.
In Herat, the new building of Taki High School will
see the commence of its construction within this summer.
In four or five years time, the trees of nuts and fruits
we planted will bring the first harvestry to the people
in Afghanistan. Will there be a big figure emerging
from graduates of the vocational school in Iran? I am
looking forward to the day to visit this place again
and see the seeds spread by NICCO bearing various fruits
in future.
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