JEN
JEN is an NGO supports ‘Self-Support’ from ‘Emergency to Recovery’
JEN was
initially established as ‘Japan Emergency NGOs’ in 1994. In April 2004, JEN obtained Certified NPO
status, and was renamed ‘NGO JEN’ and has become a certified NGO from September
2005.
JEN is an
International Cooperation NGO that has strives for the making of a peaceful
international community by using ‘Psycho-social care and self-reliant support’
as it’s motto to provide assistance to victims of conflict and natural
disasters.
From 2002 ?
2006, JEN promoted the resettlement of returning female heads of household by
assisting both returnee and local women to become socially and economically
self-reliant in Eritrea. JEN had
established a Union of 360 female heads of
household and started the Assistance Project for Self-Reliance by providing
tractors. Through this project, female heads of household could use tractors
without any costs and cultivate the land. Furthermore, JEN had not only
provided the materials necessary for poultry farming, but also gave technical
training in raising chickens, and maintaining and managing the chicken
factories. In addition, we also assisted women in strengthening their business
management skills, including sales and management of budgets.
Ghirmay
Meresie
was born in 1978 in Eritrea. He spent his time in the underground
elementary school within the EPLF (Eritrean People's Liberation Front) camp
since his father was a freedom fighter for the war against Ethiopia. He studied psychology in Karen College since 1993;
however, he was conscripted to the Eritrean military after two years of
studying, where he mainly served for the de-mining unit. He fled to Sudan in 2005 as a
refugee, and got to know JEN in South Sudan in
2007. Currently, he lives in Japan with his
Japanese wife.
