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Tue, 06/07/2011 - 07:31
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Japanese charity people help children in Laos
VIENTIANE,JUNE. (KPL)- Many may wonder why Japanese charity people need to help children in the world as well as those in Laos. In 1993, at an ASEAN Summit, leaders of ASEAN and its dialogue partner Japan really recognized that the average mortality rate of children in the world was 7,000 per day.
As many children around the world were suffering from a killer tetanus, children in Japan were immune enough to the preventable disease. No causalities among children that were caused by tetanus was identified in this developed country.
This is a reason why Mr. Toshiro Arai and his country mates established the Japan Committee Vaccines for the World’s Children (JCV) in 1994.
Since then, JCV has acted as a charity organisation and aimed its responsibilities at helping women in productive ages (15-45) and children worldwide by providing anti-tetanus vaccination for children.
“I do sympathise with children around the world because they are supposed to grow up and develop their respective nations but they are poor and vulnerable to the infection of deadly diseases,” said Mr. Toshiro as the JCV General Director after he and his team administered anti-tetanus vaccination and vitamin A dropping and de-worming for target women and children in Phieng and Thongmisay districts, Sayaboury province last week.
For decades, the JCV has mobilized fund as much as they can for anti-tetanus vaccination for children in the world.
Its efforts have significantly contributed to the reduction in number of children suffering from tetanus worldwide from 7,000 children per day in 1993 to about 4,000 children per day nowadays.
“We feel very happy with this campaign because high-ranking officials from Laos namely Deputy Minister of Public Health Dr. Bounkouang Phichit, Sayaboury Vice-Governor, Mr. GnolGnong Sipaseuth and related officials from the National Commission for Mothers and Children, UNICEF, provincial health workers and local authorities seriously pay attention to vaccination against tetanus and they show their high willingness to help Lao children as well as we do,” said Mr. Arai.
The boss of the JCV told the Lao media people that he kept asking himself why his organization just helped children in Japan and why not those in other countries including Laos because they were human as Japanese children.
He said the JCV was willing to expand the anti-tetanus vaccination campaign to other areas in Laos but it needed cooperation and participation of the Lao government and relevant sectors.
“I would like to see children who will become main force for their nations in the future not to die due to having no access to anti-tetanus vaccination,” said Mr. Arai.
As many children around the world were suffering from a killer tetanus, children in Japan were immune enough to the preventable disease. No causalities among children that were caused by tetanus was identified in this developed country.
This is a reason why Mr. Toshiro Arai and his country mates established the Japan Committee Vaccines for the World’s Children (JCV) in 1994.
Since then, JCV has acted as a charity organisation and aimed its responsibilities at helping women in productive ages (15-45) and children worldwide by providing anti-tetanus vaccination for children.
“I do sympathise with children around the world because they are supposed to grow up and develop their respective nations but they are poor and vulnerable to the infection of deadly diseases,” said Mr. Toshiro as the JCV General Director after he and his team administered anti-tetanus vaccination and vitamin A dropping and de-worming for target women and children in Phieng and Thongmisay districts, Sayaboury province last week.
For decades, the JCV has mobilized fund as much as they can for anti-tetanus vaccination for children in the world.
Its efforts have significantly contributed to the reduction in number of children suffering from tetanus worldwide from 7,000 children per day in 1993 to about 4,000 children per day nowadays.
“We feel very happy with this campaign because high-ranking officials from Laos namely Deputy Minister of Public Health Dr. Bounkouang Phichit, Sayaboury Vice-Governor, Mr. GnolGnong Sipaseuth and related officials from the National Commission for Mothers and Children, UNICEF, provincial health workers and local authorities seriously pay attention to vaccination against tetanus and they show their high willingness to help Lao children as well as we do,” said Mr. Arai.
The boss of the JCV told the Lao media people that he kept asking himself why his organization just helped children in Japan and why not those in other countries including Laos because they were human as Japanese children.
He said the JCV was willing to expand the anti-tetanus vaccination campaign to other areas in Laos but it needed cooperation and participation of the Lao government and relevant sectors.
“I would like to see children who will become main force for their nations in the future not to die due to having no access to anti-tetanus vaccination,” said Mr. Arai.
