Peace Winds Japan Annual Report FY2004

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Message from chairperson
Summary of 2004
Iraq
Mongolia
Indonesia
East Timor
Sierra Leone
Liberia
Afghanistan
Iran
Nigata
Strengthening Ourselves and
Our Civil Society
Major Activities in FY2004
Organizational Time Line
Organizational Structure
Financial Statement

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Major Activities in FY2004

Total number of beneficiaries: Approx, 1.55million + 10,500 families

Iraq
Activities		Activity Sites	Beneficiaries
Emergency assistance and reconstruction	Distribution of medicine, medical equipment and non-food items	Sulaimaniyah, Dohuk, Ninewa, Kirkuk Erbil	Approx. 1.2 million*
	Construction and renovation of public facilities including hospitals, and provision of equipment
	Assistance for IDPs and returnees
Socio-Medic projects	Mobile clinics	Sulaimaniyah, Dohuk, Erbil	29,100
Socio-Medic projects	Medical assistance for children with heart disease	Japan	2
Development assistance	Maternal and child health care projects	Dohuk	193
	Assistance for juveniles released from the juvenile social reformatory centers		8
	Improvement of sanitation and employment creation		4,379
	Assistance for mentally handicapped people	Erbil	1,048

Iran
Activities		Activity Sites	Beneficiaries
Assistance for earthquake victims in Bam	Distribution of tents	Bam City	2,456 families
	Distribution of non-food items
	Management of camps for displaced people
Educational assistance	Construction of temporary school buildings		980
	Reconstruction of a school with earthquake-safer design		218
Dissemination of earthquake-safer design	Workshop for dissemination of earthquake-safer design		Approx. 500
	Construction of model houses with earthquake-safer design

Liberia
Activities		Activity Sites	Beneficiaries
Assistance for repatriation of returnees	Shelter project	Lofa County	10,513
	Hygiene promotion Latrine construction		Approx. 5,200*
	Hygiene promotion Hygiene education		Approx. 5,500*
	Well construction		Approx. 6,000*
	School renovation		Approx. 4,000
	Provision of chairs and desks for schools		Approx. 3,000

Sierra Leone
Activities		Activity Sites	Beneficiaries
Assistance for Liberian refugees	Camp management, water supply, hygiene promotion	Pujehun District Bo District	10,513
	Food distribution
	Latrine and shower construction
	Management of educational facilities
	Assistance for most vulnerable people
Assistance for Sierra Leonean returnees	Well drilling	Kono District	12,900*
	Non-formal education		Approx. 1,000
	Water supply project using a gravity-driven system		1,500*

Indonesia
Activities		Activity Sites	Beneficiaries
Emergency relief for earthquake victims	Distribution of emergency relief items	Aceh Province	10,735
Repatriation of earthquake victims	Assistance for removal of rubble	Aceh Province	Approx. 250
Promotion of local NGOs and self-help groups	Empowerment of local NGOs in Sorong	Sorong District	Approx. 550
Promotion of local NGOs and self-help groups	Resettlement of Aceh IDPs	Boyolali District	125

Afghanistan
Activities		Activity Sites	Beneficiaries
Emergency assistance	Water distribution	Sarepul Province	Approx. 29,820*
Reconstruction and development	Infrastructure improvement	Sarepul Province	Construction of water supply facilities Approx. 200,000* Maintenance of irrigation canal 7,857
	Empowerment of women		Sericulture project 2,867 Poultry farming project 740 Literacy education 20
	Agricultural assistance		Seed distribution 5,260 families Establishment of nursery farm 1,000 families
Educational assistance	Provision of teaching materials		2,000
Educational assistance	School construction	Kabul Province	Approx. 2,300
Study for appropriate water resource usage		Sarepul Province	N/A
Design of new nursery project		Sarepul Province	N/A

Mongolia
Activities		Activity Sites	Beneficiaries
Assistance for children of poor families in Ulaanbaatar	Khot Ail management	Ulaanbaatar	72
Assistance for children of poor families in Ulaanbaatar	Non-formal education	Erdenet	83
Empowerment of local NGOs	Vocational training	Darkhan	49
Social welfare	Counseling in juvenile reformatory center	Ulaanbaatar	120
	Non-formal education in tuberculosis hospital for children		77
	Artificial limbs project		6
Community development	Vocational training	Ulaanbaatar	30
	Nutrition training for pregnant women and nursing mothers		141
	Assistance for preschool		80
Educational assistance for schools in rural areas	Provision of mimeographs	Omnogovi Province Dundgovi Province	Approx. 5,470

China
Activities	Activity Sites	Beneficiaries
Scholarship program	Yunnan Province	77

East Timor
Activities	Activity Sites	Beneficiaries
Assistance for coffee farmers in Letefoho	Ermera District	135 families
Dissemination of coffee cultivation management skills

Tokyo
Activities		Activity Sites	Beneficiaries
Emergency relief for earthquake victims	Management of balloon shelters for IDPs	Ojiya City	Approx. 450
	Medical counseling		40

*Calculation of beneficiries: In the case of projects that service an entire area such as hospital rehabilitation or infrastructure reconstruction, the beneficiries are counted as the total population within that service area.