KATHMANDU: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has dispatched one new Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer (JOCV) to work in Nepal.
Miki Enomoto arrived in Kathmandu on Tuesday and will join JICA Alumni Association of Nepal's (JAAN) Integrated Community Development Programme in Lele, Lalitpur from July 5, Wednesday, as per a press statement. JICA's volunteer programme in Nepal was on temporary halt since the outbreak of COVID-19 in April 2020.
With the arrival of Enomoto, JICA assures that more volunteers will be coming to Nepal in the following months. JICA volunteer programme founded in 1965 allows Japanese volunteers to work with the local people for two years to contribute to the country's socioeconomic development, making effective use of their abilities and experiences.
The volunteers live among the local people of the country to which they are dispatched to and pursue their activities enabling them to ascertain development needs from the viewpoint of those living there as well as promote mutual understanding and friendship between Nepal and Japan. The first JICA volunteers came to Nepal in September 1970.
A version of this article appears in the print on July 5, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.
