NO.175-2
The World Terakoya Movement of UNESCO
We are grateful for your cooperation!Thanks to your cooperation
the Meguro
UNESCO Association could offer ¥600,000 in fiscal 2000
from the proceeds of
UNESCO’s activities such as charity concerts, bazaars,
and the collection of
refundable miswritten or unused post cards, to Vietnam projects.
Campaign for Collecting Miswritten Post Cards in Fiscal 2000
“The World Terakoya Movement of UNESCO” seeks to offer everyone in the
world an opportunity and a place for education. In order to fund the Movement,
various UNESCO associations are carrying out campaigns for contributions
of miswritten or unused post cards. The following are the numbers of the
cards Meguro UNESCO has collected and we’d like to express our sincere
gratitude for your kind cooperation.
■Post Cards:
・Meguro City municipal elementary schools (21 schools out of 22):
2,431 cards
・Meguro City municipal junior high schools (8 schools out of 12):
715 cards
・Meguro citizens & members of Meguro UNESCO: 525 cards
・Employees of Meguro City Office: 415
cards
・Juku Centers, Shakai Kyoiku-kan, MIFA:
1,120 cards
■Unused prepaid telephone cards: 105
cards
■Other unused prepaid cards: 1
card
■Used prepaid telephone cards: Countless cards
■Cash: 68,779
yen
(These are the figures as of April 4, 2001)
● The cards collected from the elementary and junior high schools were
sent to the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan, and
we,
Meguro UNESCO, had the other cards reimbursed to fund the World Terakoya
Movement of UNESCO. Meguro City Municipal Fudo Elementary School took
the
cards directly to NFUAJ.
●We are collecting cards all year even though the campaign is over.
We Need Volunteers To Help Sort Collected Cards!
The Campaign for collecting miswritten or unused post cards is now over, with
an enormous amount of cards having arrived at the National Federation
of UNESCO Associations in Japan (located in Ebisu). A lot of volunteers
are sorting those cards every day.
Many Meguro UNESCO members join in the activity, and there are some who
come to work almost every day. We still need more volunteers who could
cooperate with us. Your kind help is solicited.
Inquiries: Fumiko Miyazaki (Tel: 03-3701-3783)
Children from UNESCO School Experience Volunteer Activities![](175-2voluntia1.jpg)
Nine children from elementary, junior and senior high schools, who also
learn at UNESCO School, visited the National Federation of UNESCO Associations
in Japan located in Ebisu, and sorted “miswritten cards” on March 26
(Mon.), in order to experience volunteer activities during their spring
vacation.
Before work began, an NFUAJ staff member in charge explained to the children
why such work is necessary and important, and the children also learned
from a video film about the actual situation in the countries that need
our support. At first the children were a little nervous because of the
atmosphere they were not used to. They behaved themselves without being
as cheerful (noisy?) as they are in their ordinary classes. Then they
were shown into another room NFUAJ had kindly arranged. As soon as they
started working with four Meguro UNESCO members (Harada, Uchikawa, Miyazaki,
Saito) who accompanied them, they relaxed. Even the three elementary schoolchildren
got the knack of the job at once, and everybody worked efficiently.
That day 28,400 cards were sorted thanks to the cooperation of all the
participants, and when the children were told that those cards were worth
about 1,184,000 yen, they cried out excitedly, clapping their hands. They
must have felt a different sense of achievement from the one they feel
by studying.
It was their first experience of volunteer activities, and I’m sure
it will help them some day in the future. Pupils and students who participated:
Enichi Tsutusi (3rd year in senior high), Shoko Oshima (2nd year in senior
high), Masaki Yokochi (1st year in senior high), Kou Matoba (3rd year in
junior high), Takako Fukuda, Ai Yamamoto (1st year in junior high), Hanako
Kudo, Sueko Fukuda, Akemi Tsutsui
(5th year in elementary school)
─By Takashi Saito, Chairperson, UNESCO School
Administration Committee─