BUILDING A SYSTEM to connect
Tokyo Gakugei University
High School Students to Volunteerism International Secondary SchoolRESULTABSTRACTThe goal of this study is to close the gap between high schoolstudents and volunteer organizations and to create a system tomatch them. Through interviews with volunteer organizations, weidentified specific safety measures that they take when accepting
high school students as volunteers and found that accepting highschool students has a positive impact on them.
In addition, an Instagram account was set up to send out
information to high school students, and the influence of theinformation sent out was assessed through an interview survey.

RESEARCH MOTIVES
The results of a survey on volunteerism conducted by the Student
Volunteer Center of the Nippon Foundation show a gap between
attitudes and behaviors regarding volunteerism.
It was thought that many people did not have access to
information about volunteerism as a reason for not participating involunteerism even though they were interested in it. This study will
focus on the availability of information about volunteerism andpromote participation in volunteerism.
NO39%

YES
61%

IN T E R EST INV OL U N TEER ING

NO73%

YES
27%

WH E T H ER Y OU H AV E
V OL U N TEER ED IN T H E
PAST Y E AR

10,000 Students Nationwide - Volunteer Awareness Survey 2017
The Nippon Foundation Student Volunteer Center<http://gakuvo.jp/about/newsrelease/> accessed 2020-10-7

RESEARCH PURPOSE
The gap between high school students and volunteer organizations
will be clarified through interviews and other methods, and asystem will be built to mutually match high school students withvolunteer organizations to eliminate the gap and encourage themto participate in volunteer activities, and the effects of the system
will be evaluated.

METHOD■For volunteer organizations...
1) Conduct an interview survey
Why do volunteer organizations accept high school students
and clarify the rules for accepting high school students.
→Investigate the actual conditions for accepting high school
students.

■

For volunteer organizations...
1) Interview with volunteer organizations
・green bird Ikebukuro team・NEXUS・b-lab (NPO Katariba)
Online Interview with b-lab
Three volunteer organizations were interviewed.
From the table below, it can be seen that the organizations working with highschool students took various safety measures in hosting high school students,
such as not leaving them alone during their activities and adjusting their returntime. It was also found that the high school students could have a positive
influence on the organizations because they were in a position to give newperspectives and ways of thinking to the organizations and because they were thefocus of the society's attention.
greenbird Ikebukuro

NEXUS

b-lab

Organization Info

Garbage pickup
activity

Garbage pickup
activity

Management ofyouth facilities

Q1. Rules and ideas
for accepting highschool students

・Survey the activity
area in advance andwork in a safe area

・A few people
working together
・Protection of
personal information

・Go home earlier・Parental consent
form

Q2. Advantage ofthe organization

・A wide range ofparticipants of allages

High school students
have the flexibility ofthinking and diverse
opinions

The amount of heat,
the genuine desire
and power to try
something new

Q3. Things to do to
make it easier forhigh school
students toparticipate

・Disseminate
information on
activities using SNS・Organize events
during longvacations

・Hold an exchange
after the activity
・Update youractivity record

・Raise publicity inschools
・Conduct acampaign■For high school students ...
1) Opened an Instagram accountWe have opened an account called "SanKaku" to introduce volunteer events inwhich high school students can participate. It provides an opportunity for highschool students to participate in society through the dissemination ofinformation. We have introduced 15 volunteer activities and events since theopening of the account.

2) Interview Surveys
In order to verify the effectiveness of information dissemination on Instagram,an interview survey was conducted with eight viewers of the account. As a result,it was found that 5 out of 8 people participated in the volunteer activities andevents that they were introduced to. All of the respondents were accessing thedetailed pages of the introduced volunteers and events.
This revealed that this account provided an opportunity and motivation for highschool students and other visitors to participate in volunteer work and events.
Provide volunteer
information throughthe Instagram2) Create a manual
Using the information revealed in the interviews, create amanual for approaching organizations that have not yet
accepted high school students to do so.

■For high school students...
1) Opening an Instagram accountTo solve the problem of many people not being able to get
to information about volunteering, we will use Instagram,which is widely used by high school students, to introduce
volunteer events, etc. in which high school students canparticipate.

2) Evaluation of the effectiveness of the program
Conduct interviews with viewers to verify theeffectiveness of information dissemination using Instagram.
Through it, we will confirm its validity.

High school
students

Request us introduce
volunteer workWe

View our Instagram
to get information

Volunteerorganizations
Encouraging the acceptance ofhigh school students

CONCLUSION
If we use social networking sites alone, information will not reach people who are not onthese sites. In the future, we will establish a method of disseminating information that does
not use social networking sites. We will compile the information obtained from theinterviews, create a manual, and approach the volunteer organizations.