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Overseas Reports【Action plan progress report】

1) Course Leader:Hajime SUETA

2) Former Participant:

Mr. SANDLY Hichem

Apr. 20, 2019

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This issue of Overseas Reports covers activities being run in their homeland by participants whoattended the training course, “Operation and Maintenance of Sewerage System (B)” Mr. Hajime SUETA,
the course leader, introduced us the mail exchange with him.

1. Introduction of the participant, who has given the reportNickname

PhotoNameCountry

Period of JICA
Training Course

Republic of Tunisia

Jan.12, 2018
toFeb.23, 2018

Mr. SANDLY
Hichem-sanHichem

Letter from Hichem-sanTunisia

2. Profile of participants

Eight participants dispatched fromall over the world gathered inKitakyushu city (JICA Kyushu)
and studied “Operation and
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3. Message from Mr. SUETA, Course Leader
The English language edition of the KITA News pamphlet waspublished in November 2018, and a photo of our training group was on
the cover. I also wrote some comments about the training in the pamphlet.
I sent an email to all the participants who should read this edition of KITA
News, and also asked them to send me a report about their activities since
returning to their home countries.
Hichem-san responded to my request.
Hichem-san works at a wastewater treatment plant that handles industrial wastewater. It seems that
he was racking his brains for strategies to deal with such problems as illegal connections to thesewerage system, factories that do not observe the regulations, and pipe blockages caused by oil andgrease. However, the overall training curriculum does not include much about industrial wastewater
regulations. Given this fact, I was advised by the coordinator that that the participants seemed towant a little more information about industrial wastewater, so during the ‘review time’ I provided
information that mainly focused on issues that arise when industrial wastewater is fed into
wastewater treatment plants.
Looking at his report, I can see that he is carrying out on-site inspections at many factories. This
may well be a manifestation of the policy he outlined in his action plan of prioritizing inspections ofsites with a heavy environmental load, such as cheese factories and cement plants.
It is a herculean task to get factories to observe water emission standards. In particular, it becomeseven more difficult to provide guidance when factories are connected to the sewer pipes so thecondition of the wastewater is not visible. It is thus absolutely essential for the entire system to takea stand against this issue. The maintenance and operation of wastewater facilities becomes easy whenregulations are firmly in place, and this in turn contributes to the improvement and protection of thewater environment.
I expect Hichem-san to continue to play an active role in this field.

Participants at the JICA Kyushu
Center Entrance.

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4. Letter from Hichem-sanNov. 26, 2018

Konnichiwa... How are you SUETA-san and MAFUMI-san.
I hope that all is OK for you your families and Japan in general.
I followed seriously all the natural disasters that has suffered japan this summer (floods, heatwaves...) but in the same time I was sure that the big and impressive people of japan will
overcome this problems.
My stay in japan is in my mind every days, I try to communicate my experience to many persons
and I try to learn what I learned inside and outside JICA in this country.
For mafumi san: I miss you a lot, I consider you like our tutor, our support during our stay injapan. I hope that you are in a good health you and YOU MOTHER. I really hope that receiving
you in our country for vacations.
For sueta san: I miss you too, you are like our father in the group and I consider that until now,I hope for you the better, I hope to receive you too in Tunisia. You are welcome in my house. You
find my report for KITA with 2 photos like I found in the format sent by you (if you want moretell me, I have a lot of photos for my job) , Since one month they allowed me to drive the service
car to control the factories, and controlled 30 in one month . Coincidence: the car is Japanese one
MITSUBISHI
L200- from4. Reportfrom Ana
san 2002 (old one but very strong). In the second photo of the report youfind that I’m wearing JICA SAFETY SHOES (hhhhhhhhhhhhhh).
Photo1: maintenance of measurement devices (oximeter)
Photo2: controlling the microorganism of the activated sludge in the microscope (with myFUJITSU laptop).
Sorry to be so late.
Thank you for all dears, I miss you.
DEWA MATA.
Hichem sandly
ONAS TUNISIA.
It was hard the end of 2018 with the preterm birth of my firstdaughter SALMA.
My feeling was balanced between happy to be newly father andthe fear about the health of my daughter.
It was The 20th December, but after 11 days in the neonatal
intensive care unit, SALMA is here in her room in a very good
health.
Thank you GOD, thank you to my family and Friend and special
thanks to the very professional medical staff.
You find attached all the photos 😉😉.
Miss you all.
Hichem Sandly.

Jan.13, 2019

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Recent activity report

Controlling industrial waste water
Like a responsible of controlling industrial waste water in all the suburb south of
Tunisian capital and in application of action plan that I developed in the end of mytraineeship in japan, we are working this days to increase the number of the controlledindustrial in the area and take the necessary decisions against fraudsters and polluting
factories.

1) Water quality control of cement plants
Controlling cement plant and we took asample from the reverse osmosis treatment
and the water public area for doing thenecessary analysis and determine thequality of water.

2) Water quality control of cheese plants
Controlling an artisanal cheese factorysuspected of polluting the environment, after
the enquiry we found that this factory produce
a good quality of cheese in a good conditions but
it don’t treat the waste water coming fromdifferent steps of production and discharge thewaste water in the water public area.
An ultimatum has been given to the factory theinstall a waste water treatment plant, on theother hand the factory she will be forced toclose.

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Maintenance of DO Meter

Observation of activated sludge organisms(with my FUJITSU laptop)

5．Memories of JICA-KITA Training

Photo Album of the JICA / KITA Training CourseGroup study for the “Training Review Time”

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The memorial photo after lectureGroup representative report of "Training ReviewTime"

Job Report presentation of Hichem-sanPractice of oil interceptor

Practice of sewer pipe inspection

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