An Inauguration ceremony for a Project for the Expansion of Yejoka Primary School and the Rehabilitation of Water Supply System in Yejoka Village, Guraghe Zone, SNNPRS, will take place in the said School, Yejoka, SNNPRS on Saturday 14 May 2011. This project was funded by the Japanese Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP), amounting to USD96,790.  

Mr. Yoshinori KITAMURA, First Secretary, Embassy of Japan in Ethiopia, celebrated the completion of the school blocks, together with representatives of the Guraghe Zone, as well as members of the community.　 

In this project, the Embassy of Japan supported construction of one school block and one administration block, and provision of 174 combined desks and chairs for students, 27 desks and chairs for teachers. It also supported the renovation of water system in Yejoka village and constructed one water point in the school. In this village, due to lack of school classrooms, a broken water pipeline and generator, the students could not access to a proper education system and safe water. In order to solve these problems, this project was aimed at improving the educational environment and water supply for residents in Yejoka Village by constructing the above items.  

This Project has been implemented by Ethiopian Catholic Church Social and Development Coordination Office of Endibir Catholic Secretariat who has been working for Endibir people since 2004, in collaboration with the local residents who supported the project with their labor. 

The GGP scheme was first introduced in 1989, and thus it has a history of 21 years to date. In Ethiopia, since 1997, around 290 projects have been implemented under this scheme in such sectors as education, water supply, health services, food and the provision of other basic human needs.