| 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.
About the way of learning, they had lectures, communicated with IT tools
such as e-mail, skype and mixi (Japanese SNS), watching videos, letter
exchange and listening to the experience from a Cambodian student in Japan.
They had every chance of learning about international understanding. They
understood their current situation through learning the way of life and
the way of thinking of the people of different culture through communicating
with people in developing countries.
1st term - get to know, 2nd term – communicate, 3rd term – reflect. There were some differences in activities from school to school. |
Donation of suply from Jananese schools |
| 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.) |
* Barrier-free Education Network sent 80 wheelchairs to Cambodia. |
| 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."
 National Lifelong Learning Festival, 'Manabi Peer' was held in Okayama
Prefecture in Japan in 2007. A symposium titled 'What we learned from our
friends overseas' was held in the festival. Cambodian students, Japanese
students and teachers from the schools involving this project took part
in it. |
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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 Mitsu Junior High School (10)
Osaka Kyoiku Univ. Tennoji Junior High School (11) Okayama Private Gakugeikan
High School (12) Okayama Private Shujitsu High School (13) Cambodia Chei
Primary School (14) Cambodia Child Care Center (15）Suzume no Gakkou (16)
Angkor Hospital for Children (17) Other universities (Notre Dame Seishin
University., etc.) |
| A Cambodian high school student will come to Japan to study at a Japanese
high school this year again. Face-to-face meeting with her would help Japanese
students understand difficult situations in Cambodia. Landmine survivors
and disabled people will also come to Japan and visit Japanese schools.
HG is planning to have more face-to-face meetings in Japan. HG will make
efforts to improve educational environment of Chei Primary School with
cooperation of participating schools for celebrating HG 10th anniversary. |
| RCE （Regional Centers of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development） |
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