KITA participants devote themselves to their training.

E-mail exchange between a courseleader and a former participant【Follow-up of a JICA/KITA Participant】
Course leader : Mr. Hajime SUETA
Former participant: Mr. Mark LEKGJONAJ

October 25th, 2013

Training Division
ーー１＝Kitakyushu International
Techno-cooperative Association

～E-mail Exchange with a Former Participant（Mr. Mark LEKGJONAJ）～
Mr. SUETA, a course leader of KITA, has been building the relationship with former participants in manyways even after the training ended. I believe that following-up activities for JICA/KITA participants are usefulways to provide technical supports for those who returned to their respective countries.
I would, therefore, like to introduce a part of his e-mail exchange with Mr. Mark LEKGJONAJ fromAlbania.

Mr. SUETA

Mr. Mark LEKGJONAJ◆Comment from Mr. SUETA, Course Leader
In the course of “Operation and Maintenance of Sewerage and Waste Water
Treatment Technique (B),” most of the participants were from the countries where asewerage project was about to start. Therefore, all the participants were eager toabsorb various types of knowledge. Mr. LEKGJONAJ was one of them. He explainedwater environmental problems in his country with several pictures and also provided a
lot of detailed information to me. I enjoyed having him in my course.
I exchange e-mails with him from time to time even after he went back to hiscountry. I sent the following e-mail to him in September.
“There will be a training course on sewerage system for Kosovo participants from themiddle of October this year. I will be in charge of this course, but I am concerned
because the training will be conducted in Albanian.”
He replied, “Feel free to contact me if you need any help with Albanian. I want tohelp you as much as I can in return for taking care of me in Japan.”I felt so relieved thanks to his message. I sincerely appreciate that I could establish
this kind of relationship, although we don’t communicate so often.
Nine participants from eight countries participated in this training. Judging fromtheir earnest learning attitudes, every one of them, including Mr. LEKGJONAJ, musthave had a strong desire to somehow improve the sewerage systems of their owncountries.
I hope that Mr. LEKGJONAJ will play an important role in his country, using theknowledge he gained in the training in Japan.

1◆The E-mail Recently Received from Mr. LEKGJONAJ< an excerpt from the original e-mail from Mr. LEKGJONAJ>
Dear Sueta-san,
How are you and your family? I really hope you are doing well, and having nice times. Did
you go on vacations? I am ok, and I am sorry we do not talk with each other, but my time
was really busy, I have finished my project. Here in Albania now we are having someproblems because of the elections, all my colleagues are afraid for the job positions
because of the elections...this situation its "normal" for my country. I have an advantage, I
am optimist and fully believe in my skills, so in one way its a Japanese way of thinking...yousee I have good remembers and I got good manners from my Japanese experience.

*snip*
Tell me something about you, are you playing guitar with your friends? I am sure that inyour reply email I will read how good and funny you are organizing your time.
Take care Sueta-san, and we will talk more often now.
I really miss you all, and please say hi to Joomi-san, (a coordinator of his training course)from me. It was nice writing to you.
Mark.

Pictures from the JICA/KITA Training

Mr. LEKGJONAJ

Mr. LEKGJONAJ

At Mt. Sarakura covered with snow

Storm simulation booth at Tokyo Life Safety Learning Center2

1. Outline of the Training Course（１）Course Name

Operation and Maintenance of Sewerage System and Waste Water
Treatment Technique (B)（２）Course Leader

Hajime SUETA（３）Type of CourseTrainers Training（４）Training Period

January 16, 2013（５）Participants

9 participants from 8 countries

to March 8, 2013

①Albania ②Palestine ③Turkey ④Iraq ⑤Mauritius⑥Angola ⑦Colombia ⑧Costa Rica (2 members）① Albania② Palestine③ Turkey⑧Costa Rica

Countries of the participants of this training course⑦ Colombia④ Iraq⑤ Mauritius⑥ Angola32. Conceptual Framework of the Training Course

Overall Goal
Effective sewerage system and its wastewater (sewage) treatment techniquewill be established in participants’ organizations.

Implementation after due
consideration
insparticipants’respective
countries

Project Goal
Necessary Knowledge and technique relating to seweragesystem and its wastewater (sewage) treatment will beshared within participants’ organizations.

Trainingin
Training
in Japan
Module Output(5)Being able to propose sewerage systems
improvement plans as “Action Plans” for theparticipants’ respective countries

Module Output(2)Being able to explain necessary
knowledge for planning anddesigning of sewerage systems(sewernetwork,wastewater(sewage) treatment plants)

Module Output(4)Beingabletoexplain
necessaryknowledgeforindustrialwastewatertreatment and pretreatment
facilities for discharge tosewerage systems
Module Output(3)Beingabletoexplain
necessaryknowledgeformaintaining sewerage systems(sewer network, wastewater(sewage) treatment plants)

Module Output(1)Being able to explain basic
knowledge of sewerage systems
and its wastewater (sewage)
treatment

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3. General Information about Albania■Source: Website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Basic Data

EconomyArea

About 28,700 km2 (1.5 times bigger than Shikoku region）

Population

About 2.82 million（2011 Census）

CapitalTirana（ About 420,000 people ）Ethnic group

Albanian

Official language

Albanian

Major industries

Agriculture, manufacturing, construction

GDP

13.1 billion U.S. dollars (The World Bank, 2012）

Economic growth rate

1.6％（EIU 2012）(1)Export: minerals, fuels, electricity, textiles,

Major trading items

footwear, construction materials(2)Import: minerals, fuels, electricity, machinery,
food stuffs, tobacco

Currency

Lek

Exchange rate

1 U.S. dollar＝about 105.5 Lek (August, 2013)

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