Different angle from my early blogs ~introduction of Children without Borders~

Mai Kusakabe

 

I have introduced Doctors without Borders so far. In this blog, I will change my angle, and I’m going to talk about other NGO organization. What organization or activity of volunteer do you come up with first? There are so many organizations of volunteer in all over the world. However, maybe most people know a few of them. Actually I also do not know about them well. I have stuck to Doctors without Borders in my blog ever. So I want you to know more different activity today!

 

 First, I will talk about Kokkyo naki Kodomotachi (Children without Borders). As you can see from the name of it, this organization was found in Japan in 1997 in order to support underprivileged young people in the world and educate Japanese general people especially young people. Its ideology is that Japanese children and children in foreign countries grow up together. At present, it works in 10 countries and regions in the world including Tohoku area in Japan where was suffered from strong earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. It helps street children, children who are victims of human trafficking and sexual and who are damaged from disaster. However it focuses on especially children who do not be supported by other organization in spite of they are in serious situation. I think this is a great point of this organization. There are many organizations like this, but maybe they try to support people who are in more serious and danger situation. So many people can’t be helped by someone because their situation is better than situation of people who are about to die, despite they cannot afford to do something except to live. So I think this organization plays very important role all over the world. In addition it also helps young people who are forced to do heavy labor and minors who are locked up in jail and rehabilitation facilities because they did not follow law. This organization think that these all young people should have chance to receive understandings and educations equally, and give them education and training of works in order that someday they will be able to get appropriate jobs and spend their great life as a part of a regional community.

 

　I will give you concrete examples. It supplied school buses to people in Tohoku. Also it supplied many books to children who are poor and can’t afford to buy them. These activities would lead to improve children’s conditions of education.

 

 Why did I introduce Children without Borders to you? That’s because I was deeply moved by its ideology and activities and I want you to know it. Actually I did not know this organization before I researched Doctors without Borders for blog, despite I am Japanese. I think the cause of its unfamiliarity is that most mass media tend to inform us more important and heavier situation which damaged a lot of people, and we cannot know about people who are in better situation than them but, for example, they don’t have chance to get an education or struggle to get rights to live equally. So inevitably its activities have not been reported by the media well, and we don’t know them, even though its activities should be evaluated.

 

Anyway, I’m glad to introduce Children without Borders to you today. Thank you!