A04 Morioka Chuo High School

Our action to prevent child poverty
1. Introduction

Morioka Chuo High School has 24 sister schools all over the world. We discuss the SDG’s with oversea students at annual
21st CHUO International Education Forum. This year, our group discussed “Child poverty” and we visited a food bank todeepen our understanding. We have been collecting school uniforms to help children in poor conditions.

2. Each country’s situation
Argentina: 48% of children are poor. 20% of thechildren live in extreme poverty. Poverty has been
defined as a household’s inability to financially covera basic basket of goods and services, and extreme orabsolute poverty is defined as a household’s inability
to meet the financial cost of a basic food basket. 3.5
million children live in poverty ( due to bothinsufficient income and deprivations) and the total
number of children living in no monetary poverty is
6.3, which leaves 2.8 million unaccounted by officialfigures.

Taiwan: In 2015, the gap between therich and the poor in Taiwan was thesecond highest in history. Children
under 12 in poverty account for 18.34%,
nearly 120,000 poor children in Taiwan.
About 71.5% of poverty children sufferfrom unbalanced education due to thelack of education fees.

Australia: More than 22,000 children
in South Australia live below thepoverty line. Poverty rates are
increased in rural areas due to lessemployment and education South
Australianpovertyrateofapproximately 12.6%.
Common Ideas
1. More awareness needed not just inJapan.
2. We feel good when we help others.
3. We have to prevent poverty cycle by
the education.

Vietnam: 1.There are 5,6 million poorchildren. 2. Current problems ( 26,6% ofchild poverty focus on mountainous areas.
11% children don’t receive education.
170.000 children are abandoned and live inpoor conditions.) 3. Culprits ( Poor
education, Low income, Food and water
shortage, Poor living condition)

Singapore:10~14%
ofSingaporeans struggle to afford
basic necessities. 43.45% increasein families relying on government
financial assistance from 2012 to2015.
Okinawa: Okinawa’s salary rate is the lowest in Japan. 1 in
3 children suffer from poverty. The Japanese government
doesn’t do anything effective. The Okinawan prefectural
office provides information, and has support centers thatwork with schools, making a foundation that provides theneeded support.
Iwate: Child poverty rate of Iwate prefecture was onincrease from 1992 to 2012. It was 5.4% in 1992, it became
13.8% in 2012. The university entrance rate of Iwate
prefecture is bottom 3 in all prefectures in Japan. If people
don’t go to high school, university or college, they will haveno choice but to live under low-income and unstable
employment when they become adults.

3. Fieldwork

Children’s cafeteria

Food bankDiscussion

Chuo International Education Forum4. Conclusion
Global Solutions.
1. Set up food banks or donation drives in every country to solve the problem of insufficient food and resources for children born intopoverty.
2. Make academic guidance programs for students ( where students teach other under-privileged children) and to ensure sustainability
for the programs, we could initiate with school programs. Also, we could make a skills program with NGO for people who are willing towork.
3. Raise awareness by talking and posting about these problems. For example, crowd funding.
→We will keep collecting school uniforms.