| Fosterage of juvenile (Training, cultivation) |
| Primary, junior high, senior high schools, and Organization for International
Promotion of Intercollegiate Athletic Okayama (OIPIAO) |
| Hearts of Gold (HG) cooperates with some schools in Japan in overall studying,
international understanding education, and volunteer work. HG intends that
these activities will encourage Japanese children/students to concern for
the world situations (poverty, environment, peace, etc), to broaden international/cross-cultural
understandings, and to raise self-awareness. |
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The way of learning
- Listening to those who are engaged in the work in Cambodia
- Communicating with people in Cambodia on IT device and videos, etc.
- Communicating with children in Cambodia by exchange of letters, to do cooperation activities from their viewpoint.
- Understanding current situation by learning the way of life and thinking
in the developing country through communication.
1st term - get to know, 2nd term – communicate, 3rd term – reflect. There were some differences in activities from school to school.
| 1st term: |
Japanese students showed understanding of the situation and international
cooperation activities in Cambodia through lectures given by HG at related
schools. |
| 2nd term: |
HG Japanese staffs working in Cambodia and a Cambodian student visited
Japanese schools to give advice about adequate cooperation activities for
the country. Through internet students of participating schools communicated
with HG Asia staffs to know what they should do for the country. They prepared
and sent supplies/materials along the tour to Cambodia in December. These
were used for cooperation activities. Some of them were delivered to NGOs
and some local schools directly. |
| 3rd term: |
 The schools in Cambodia reported the receipt to Japanese schools. Japanese
students found their activities useful for Cambodian schools and found
themselves enriched by doing what they can do. They showed more interest
in their activities and started changing their own lives in Japan. (For
this year, a Japanese language teacher and HG staffs were dispatched 20
times in total.) |
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| Mutsumi Hinokio, Japanese teacher dispatched to HG Mutsumi Japanese Course
located in Chei Primary School, Yuko Arimori, Representative Director,
staff members (from HG Asia office, and Head office), and university students
from Japan. |
Achievement can't be expressed in figures, since this cooperation is not
concrete activities like constructing roads and bridges, and emergency
supplies but fostering humans. Developing human resources is one of the
most important supports. We found one-year activities had big influences
on Japanese children. They could make friends across the ocean and they
were encouraged to live strong after learning the situation in which Cambodian
people are. Having started from saying "I feel sorry for Cambodian
children," they gradually showed respect for Cambodian children by
knowing their way of life.
They learned that poverty, environment, human right and peace were linked, that it was important to improve something only a little for the future and that activities with friends also made them happy. We could extend our motto, "Do what you can do as long as possible."
We have been doing this activity for 8 years. This continuous activity
has had immeasurable impact on students in participating schools. and we
don't know how much influence the continuous activity has had on the children
in participating schools. |
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（800 Japanese,100 Cambodian totally）
Participating schools:
(1)Okayama City Hirafuku Primary School (2)Okayama City Fukushima Primary School (3)Okayama City Makiishi Primary School (4)Okayama City Houmei Primary School (5)Kurashiki City Kotoura Higashi Primary School (6)Okayama City Nodani Primary School (7)Okayama City Mikado Primary School (8)Okayama City Korakukan Primary School (9)Okayama City Kohoku Junior High School (10)Okayama Private Gakugeikan High School (11)Okayama Private Shujitsu High School (12)Cambodia Chei Primary School (13)Cambodia Child Care Center (14)Angkor Hospital for Children (15)Other universities（Kurashiki University of Science and The Arts., etc.） |
| Publication of the activities about international understanding in cooperation
with participating schools in Japan. Giving more opportunities to the teachers
in Cambodia to join the program by networking with Japanese schools. Planning
a study tour for the teachers. A Cambodian student studying in HG Mutsumi
Japanese Course is planning to study in a Japanese high school participating
in this project. She and Japanese students will exchange their views directly
and deepen international and cross-cultural understanding. |
| RCE （Regional Centers of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development） |
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