Da Nang grateful for Japanese bicycle donations
Japan’s Kawasaki city has
donated more than 10,000 bicycles, worth almost 20 billion VND, to poor
students in the central city of Da Nang and Quang Nam province over the
past ten years.
Implemented by the Japan-Vietnam Friendship
Association (JVFA) in Kawasaki in conjunction with the Union of
Friendship Organisations in Da Nang, the programme has helped a huge
number of disadvantaged students to travel to school and build a life
for themselves.
The programme has strengthened the friendship between the two cities and the countries at large.
Miyahara Haruo, Chairman of the JVFA in Kawasaki has played a key role
in the programme. He persuaded Kawasaki city’s governor to present the
bicycles and successfully collected donations to pay for the bike
transportation costs.
Speaking at a ceremony to mark the ten
year anniversary of the programme in Da Nang on August 22, Haruo
pledged that the bicycle donations would continue.
He added that that the two sides will also further cooperate in several other fields in the future.-VNA