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Tamil Nadu

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Japanese Consul-General lauds SOS Children's Village

Staff Reporter

Kodaki takes part in 28th anniversary, unveils paintings

UNITED IN SPIRIT: Japan's Consul-General in Chennai Yohiaki Kodaki (standing left) and his wife (sitting), at the SOS Children's Village in East Tambaram on Thursday. — Photo: A. Muralitharan

TAMBARAM : Japanese Consul-General in Chennai, Yoshiaki Kodaki, lauded the SOS Children's Village of India - Chatnath Homes in East Tambaram for its services to destitute children, providing them education and training them for a career.

Taking part in the 28th anniversary of the Children's Village located in Professors' Colony in East Tambaram on Thursday, Mr. Kodaki inaugurated an exhibition of paintings drawn by children of the institution and coloured by children of Japan.

He recalled that documentary filmmaker and writer Rima Fujita of Japan had visited the Children's Village in 2005 and was impressed with the philosophy behind the institution. She took some of the paintings made by the children and had them coloured by children in Japan.

He said through such joint work, "the Indian children at Chatnath Homes would feel a shared solidarity with the Japanese people in bringing out a fusion of Indo-Japanese drawings." This year, both countries were celebrating Indo-Japan Friendship Year in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Indo-Japan Cultural Exchange Agreement, Mr. Kodaki said. It signified the friendly ties between the two nations, he said and hoped that mutual understanding would be strengthened.

He said he was glad to note that a grant extended to SOS Children's Villages through the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Project in 1991 was successfully implemented and had benefited many children. Akiko Kodaki, wife of the Consul General, P.M. Amza, Deputy High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in Chennai, M. Srinivas and Uma Narayanan, director and managing trustee respectively of the institution were also present on the occasion.

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