JICA volunteers pay 50th Anniversary Courtesy Call on Deputy President William Ruto

Deputy President William Ruto admires artifacts from JICA volunteers who paid him a courtesy call on Wednesday. (PHOTO: JICA/T.KUNO)

The Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCVs) today paid a courtesy call on H.E. the Deputy President William Ruto at his official residence in Karen. JOCV is one of JICA’s programs aiming at providing technical assistance in developing countries at the grassroots level. In attendance was the Japanese Ambassador to Kenya, H.E. Tatsushi Terada and JICA Kenya’s Chief Representative, Mr Hideo Eguchi.

Deputy President William Ruto admires artifacts from JICA volunteers who paid him a courtesy call on Wednesday. (PHOTO: JICA/T.KUNO)

The purpose of this courtesy call was to brief H.E. Ruto on current JOCV activities in Kenya as well as to commemorate the Program’s 50th Anniversary in Kenya. The first Volunteers were dispatched to Kenya in 1966, and since then more than 1600 have worked in Kenya in various fields.