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2013 Jci World Congress

Enrich and broaden children's horizon
JCI JAPAN
Best Long-term Local Community Program

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Entry Information
Award Program:Category:

2013 JCI World Congress
Best Long-term Local Community Program

NOM Information
National Organization:

JCI JAPAN
Kosuke Obata
E-mail: yu-ai2@oregano.ocn.ne.jp;
secjjc@mrh.biglobe.ne.jp

National President:

LOM Information
Local Organization:
President:

JCI Osaka
Shigenari Yamamoto

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Basic Information
Duration : Jan 2007 - Sep 2013
Staff : 70
Board of Education, Osaka City, 96 elementary schools, Yomiuri News
Sponsors :paper, JCI Osaka members and Obs
Budget : US$1540
Profit / Loss : none
In which UN MDG bestfit (if apply): ?:2.6million people that live in the local region.(especially children)
Who is benefited ?:Objective : JCI Osaka provide an opportunity for elementary school children to create
positive change through providing them tuition and after school enrichment
teach by JCI members and cooperative NPO people.
1) Through education, cultivate global leader
2) We proved that leadership is not only for someone special but also foreverybody.
3) Empower KIDS leader to be better and increase their interest to change
their community be better.
Overview : [Preparation for the program]
JCI Osaka held more than 10 times of meeting with city government,elementary school teacher, parents, and citizen. Gathering as many
opinions from different positioned people participate in the meeting, andfound the problem. [The problem, living in the small community, and they
dont have enough opportunity to widen their perception and experience][Actual program]
1) All the members took some lessons of teaching skill and mental atitude
to teach children.
2) We provide more than 100 times (usually 2 hours per time, which isabout 200 hours) of tuition to children based on each members job orexperimental rules.
3) We provide opportunities to broaden childrens horizon; moral lesson,
importance of having future dream, friendships, world news, United Nation
MDGs.
[After program]To brushup what they learn and not to forget, let children talk what theylearned to their family and friends.
To act to be better to community, let children think what they can do.
Results : We conducted questionnaire survey after all the tuition.
We have done 2 times of verification meeting. For the verification meeting,
25 citizens, 10 teeachers from schools, 8 government officers, 15
cooperative organization, and 70 of our committee member joined.
And from the questionnaire survey to the children, we are confidence of themeaning of this project.
[Questionnaire answers snippets]
1) I understand that the good you do for others is good you do yourself;
compassion is not for other people\'s benefit.
2) I want to help people who has some problem.
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4) I want to be grownup who always help others.
5) I understand that we human beings are all conected in the world.
6) I will try harder in order to make my dream come true.
Actions Taken : [Meetings],[Prepeation],[Training ourselves as lector], [Tuition],[Questionnaire],[Verification meeting]2012 Jan: Hand over from 2011 committee members, and we pay a visit tocity government, schools, cooperative organization, and held meetings.
2012 Jan- 2013 Sep: Deliver tuition and after school enrichment. We did
138 times to 96 schools, to 5202 children, and 105 members andcooperative organization members played a role of lector.
2012 March -October: Training ourselves as lector (5 times)
2012 May: Meeting with schools
2012 May: Recruiting citizen lectors (primary recruit)
2012 July: Meeting with parents of children
2012 August: Recruiting citizen lectors (secondary recruit)
2012 Sep: Interval verification meeting2012 Oct- 2013 Sep: conduct after school enrichment lesson to schools (6schools per month)
2012 Dec: Verification meeting2013 Jan: Meeting with City government
2013 Mar: Report to city government, schools, parents, cooperativeorganizations.
2013 May: Supporting each schools to held tuition and afterschool
enrichment lesson conducted by schools and communities themselves.
2013 June-Sep: Training citizen lectors (4 times)
Recommendations : Ideal form of this project in the future1) We should follow-up survay what changes has occur to children after
taking the tuition and after school enrichment lessons.
2) We should keep the good relation with city government, companies,and communities, who cooperate the project. We should be a leading
global network of young active citizens, so that we should provide anopportunities to communities and companies to create positive change,
which is to hand over this project to community and companies.

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JCIPage 31Aw ard Category criteria
Objectives, Planning, Finance and Ex ecution

What were the JCI Osaka provide an opportunity for elementarylong-term school children to create positive change throughobjectives of this providing them tuition and after school enrichment
program? teach by JCI members and cooperative NPO people.

1) Through education, cultivate global leader.
2) We proved that leadership is not only forsomeone special but also for everybody.
3) Empower KIDS leader to be better and increase
their interest to change their community be better.
How does this 1) We change Osaka citizen positive, and active
program align to citizen started to try to contribute to community as
the JCI Plan of chain reaction.
Action?

2) For continual and long-last development ofcommunity, we empower from young to old to create
positive change.
3) This project also made people and organization
realize the importance of social responsibility.

Was the budget an
effective guide forthe financial Settling the budget in advance, we could be able tomanagement of the accomplish our objective of the program effectively
project? and in a low-cost.
How does this 1. Through providing an great opportunity toproject advance the empower children broaden their horizon.
JCI Mission andVision? 2. We cultivate many future leaders to ourcommunity. Thus we had advance the JCI Mission.
3. We provide an opportunity to make future active
citizens understand JCI and thus we advanced theJCI Vission.

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JCIPage 42Aw ard Category criteria
Membership Participation

By number, howmany members
were involved inthis program? 70
By percentage,
how manymembers of theLocal Organization
were involved inthis program? 90%
Describe the main Lector training (3 members)roles of theparticipating Public recruiting of lectors from citizens (3members in this members)
program.

Making Action plan, implementation, vertification (35members)
Training Cooperative organization collection of thetechnical acquisition (35 members)
Training teaching skill and mental atitude to teachchildren (3 members)
Bridge-building between government, schools,
parents, and citizens (5 members)
Public recruiting of lectors and cooperativeorganization (3 members)
Public relations (3 members)
Venue preparation (3 members)
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Community Impact

How did the Local 1) Took questionnaire to children before and after
Organization conducting the programs.
measurecommunity impact 2) Did hearing investigation from schools,
for this program? cooperative organization, government, andcooperation.

3) We got Official certificate of appreciation from
Osaka city mayer.
4) Conducted two times of vertification meetings,inviting 25 citizens, 10 teeachers from schools, 8
government officers, and 15 cooperativeorganization.
Describe the actualcommunity impact
produced by thisproject

We could create citizens awarness of cultivating not
only their own children but whole children in thecommunity.
We could create within and between community
network.
We could created leaders who spontaniously act tochange their community better through the project.
[Cooperative organizations]
Organizations including companies, they are aware ofhappiness of contributing for their community andthey became active organizations. In addiion, they
are proud of themselves who takes social
responsibility to their community.
[Citizens]
In the sence of Individual social responsibility,
citizens are aware of their possibility to be able tocontribute themselves to their community. We
provided the opportunity for them to positivechange.
Some of the citizens started to conduct tuition andafter school enrichment lesson by their own.
[Children]
Some of the children started to donate in theirschool for same generation children who is sufferingin the world, by taking class of UN MDGs. Some of
the children started to exchange letters with thesame generation children in The North East
Earthquake.

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Impact on Local Organization

How did the Local 1) JCI Osaka has growed ties with government,
Organization schools, citizens, and cooperative organizations.
benefit from running
this project? 2) JCI Osaka provided an opportunity to empower

community people to create positive change, and weare keeping good relationship with them, and webecame an leading global network of young activecitizens.
3) Through providing opportunity to positive change,
the members of JCI Osaka try their best to be agood example for citizens as a active leaders.
4) We have gained more organization and company
who want to contribute to community this year, andwe are sure the cantidates will increase year byyear.

How did the We could be able to change the childrens positive :program advancethe JCI Mission? Through providing opportunity to meet and hear

about unknown world, which they cannot learn fromschool, their horizen broaden more and their interest
spread wide and big. Also being involved with active
citizens including JCI Osaka members, children
definetly changed positively.

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Long-term Impact of the Program

What is the JCI Osaka has already spread this project to most
expected long-term of the elementary schools in the city. Through award
impact of this application, we hope this pfoject will be see by many
project? members and spread to Japan, and to world.

The plan of action is very simple and easy to spread,
we hope this gives an opportunity to create apositive change to the chapter who started thisproject.

What changes JCI Osaka should support community or citizen whowould you make to want to start this project by themselves.
improve the resultsof this project? [Improve pont]

Post this project detail to website and make it easy
for citizen or other organization to bring in theprojects.

Keep challenging to the project and JCI Osaka will
create more deep relationship with government,community, and other organization, and we should be
the leading global network of young active citizens.

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