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2013 Jci World Congress"Diamond Children" -Children who will change thefuture of JapanJCI JAPANBest Local Growth & Development Program

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Entry Information
Award Program:Category:

2013 JCI World Congress
Best Local Growth & Development 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 Akita
Kagaya Hisato

President Email: info@akitajc.jp

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Basic Information
Duration : June 6, 2012 - November 30, 2012
Staff : Six member
1. Shouichi Saitou Store (200 meals worth amount of traditional food.) 2.
Sponsors :Toraya (Permission to use
Budget : 668 US dollar
Profit / Loss : None
In which UN MDG bestfit (if apply): ?:Who is benefited ?: 320 thousand people living in Akita city.
Objective : JCI Akita took actions with an aim of expanding Jaycee in the long term.
1. We focused on junior high and high school students.
2. We evoked students’ will to help and work for the local society andsupported their action.
3. We promoted students’ "Positive Change"by letting them notice how
important and great it is to support and work for a local society.
It is crucial for JCI Akita to increase the number of members in order toimprove its movement. Therefore, our committee has offered a chance forjunior high and high school students to think about issues in a local
community and try to work it out. It is because in order to develop future
Jaycee, it is necessary for those who are going to work in the future tounderstand to significance of local development.
We let students to do everything basically on their own from planning toactual carry out. By supporting their regional development program tosuccess, we make "Positive Change" within each of them. As a result,
there will be more people from younger generation to actively participate inlocal development, which means that future Jaycee can be expanded.
In Akita, there are there are no opportunity for junior high and high schoolstudents to think and work for local area.
So we offered an opportunity for students to think and act for local
community with JC. Our goal is to expand the membership in the future by
motivating students toward contribution activities to the local areas.
Overview : We allowed junior high and high school students organized a committee
so that they can plan and work it out as a town development movement.
JCI Akita has supported the activity.
・We invited people who are well experienced and was once a member of"United Children", which is a group of junior high and high school students
working for local area development all over Japan, and held a lecture forjunior high and high school students in Akita.
・By notifying the works of United Children in the lecture, we motivatedstudents from Akita to join the local area development.
・We distributed a handout to the junior high and high school to announce
the recruitment of the new members for "Committee of Local Area
Development by Junior High and High School Students".
・We have discussed about some issues in Akita and ways to improve thesituation at the committee.
・Students focused on a issue that traditional foods are no longer
common among families nowadays. They have come up with a recipe thatarranges traditional food to be more modern. Students came up with aprogram to offer recipe and sell the product and they carried out the plan.
・Those who joined the committee found the activity to be fun, andwww.jci.cc/eawards2n/print.php?lang_id=1&u=34760

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launched "Akita United Children" on their ownl
・They are aggressively joining the programs of Akita JC today.
Results : 1. Junior high and high school students have pondered over the local area
development on their own and made an action.
2. "Positive Charge" of those who participated in the program has becometrue.
According to the hearing to the students after the program, they haveexperienced the local area development and contribution to the area. They
were also willing to work continuously. As a result, students have created
United Children, which can be said as the children’s JC, in Akita bythemselves. Also, there were total of 60 junior high and high school
students joining the local area development program that focuses on
support program from the damage of the Great East Japan Earthquake,environmental protection program, and Akita’s fermentation brewage
culture.
Students succeeded in getting assets from companies. Also, they havevolunteered for snow removal after the program. From these facts, it canbe said that motivation of students toward a contribution to local areas andtheir activeness have improved.
Until now, JCI Akita was aiming only toward elementary students and did
not promote to junior high and high school students. Throughout thisprogram, JCI Akita got connection to the elder age group.
We were able to get the results of "Positive Charge" to the elder students
as expected, and for the development of future Jaycee candidate, we got
much more than what had been expected.
Actions Taken : 2011, 9～ Our committee have decided to organize a program for older
children who are more close to the age who start working
2011, 12 Decided to set a target to junior high and high school students
2012, 1 Focused on a United Children and searched about theiractivities.
2012, 2 Asked for lectures to the members who have once participated inUnited Children.
2012, 3～4 Started to create a flyer to announce about the lecture and the"Committee of Local Area Development by Junior High and High SchoolStudents". Distributed them to 18,000 students in junior high and highschools in Akita city
2012, 5 Invited two of the graduate members of United Children for thelecture.
2012, 6 Held a kickoff meeting for "Committee of Local Area Development
by Junior High and High School Students"
2012, 6～10 Held the committee for 15 times
2012, 10 Program has began. Supported junior high and high school
students to cook and sell the traditional foods in the area.
2012, 10 Program ended. Supported students to establish Akita UnitedChildren
2012, 11 Program inspected. Reflected on the program.
We have decided to offer a chance for students in junior high and highschool to join the local area development.
To do so, we focused on the United Children, did some research, andasked for a lecture.
As the lecture was held, we recruited students who got interested in local
area development.
We created "Committee of Local Area Development by Junior High andHigh School Students"
After teaching students how to conduct a meeting, we let them work on
their own.
They held meeting 15 times within a period from June until October.
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We helped the meeting by giving some advice when the topic got stuck.
Students decided to establish "Akita United Children", so we supportedthem.
On the day of the project, we helped students and supported them.
Successfully established Akita United Children, and "Committee of Local
Area Development by Junior High and High School Students" changed its
name to "Akita United Children".
We had a meeting with students to reflect on the project.
Recommendations : After the project, we got comments from students’ parents such as "Mydaughter got to work with people who would never known each otherwithout this project, and as she work in the committee she became morebright and outgoing," and "The way of talking have changed as my childdiscuss with elder members of the committee."
Some students have also commented that "I joined the committee tochange my passive attitude to interact with others. As I work in thecommittee, I realized that I was changing. My anxiety soon became
anticipation," and "I have never thought about Akita like this before joining
the committee, and I got to realize that there are so many things that need
to be improved and solved."
We held the project to let the students explore and notice how fun it is towork for local areas and its importance.
As a result, we were able to lead the project to the foundation of "Akita
United hildren".
Foundation of Akita United Children.
We did not mention anything about starting up a group since we believedthat it is only possible with the will of students.
By letting students know about the United Children before making acommittee, we tried to make them aware of the group.
We first expected the "Committee of Local Area Development by JuniorHigh and High School Students" to end with in the year 2012. So it wassurprising to know that students wanted to work more for local area
development by founding Akita United Children.
It is sure that the lecture and seminar held by the graduates of UnitedChildren played a large role for students to think in such way.
There are tremendous differences in students’ motivation in starting up anew United Children between us suggesting them to startup the Unite
Children on our own and students working on setting up the organizationon their own.
So we tried to get them motivated toward starting the organization.
The most important feature of this program was to let the junior high andhigh school students to work on their own to experience the socialdevelopment.
Adults can have a program for themselves at any time. It is important todevelop next generation.
AKT Akita Television, 134,000 households viewable/ We were interviewed
on the day of the program. Our activity was on-air for three minutes at theevening news.
Asahi Shinbun(Newspaper Company) 37,000 copies/ We were interviewed
on the day of the program. There was an article about the program on thenext day’s newspaper. (1/6 of the page with picture.)
Akita Sakigake Shinbun(Akita’s local newspaper company) 240,000
copies/ lecture was interviewed. There was a small article about thelecture on the next day’s newspaper.

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1Aw ard Category criteria
Strategic Plan

What were the JCI Akita took actions with an aim of expanding
main objectives of Jaycee in the long term.
the program?

1. We focused on junior high and high school
students.

2. We evoked students’ will to help and work for thelocal society and supported their action.
3. We promoted students’ "Positive Change" byletting them notice how important and great it is tosupport and work for a local society.
How does this It is crucial for JCI Akita to increase the number ofprogram advance members in order to improve its movement.
the plan of action of Therefore, our committee has offered a chance forthe Local junior high and high school students to think about
Organization? issues in a local community and try to work it out. Itis because in order to develop future Jaycee, it isnecessary for those who are going to work in thefuture to understand to significance of localdevelopment.
We let students to do everything basically on theirown from planning to actual carry out. By supporting
their regional development program to success, we
make "Positive Change" within each of them. As aresult, there will be more people from youngergeneration to actively participate in local
development, which means that future Jaycee canbe expanded.

How does this Promoting JCI Mission
project advance theJCI Mission and JCI Akita created "Committee of Local Area
Vision? Development by Junior High and High SchoolStudents". We succeeded in offering students tochange positively by letting them work for local
development on their own.
Promoting JCI Vision
JCI Akita supported students who are interested inlocal area development to create their network.
Succeeded in creating a network of students andJCI Akita.
JCI Akita has obtained a leading role in the area.
Shared a recognition of JCI as a Top Global Networkin the area.

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Involvement of Local Board of Directors and Members

By number, howmany members
were involved? 6Ｍｅｍｂｅｒｓ
By percentage,
how manymembers wereinvolved in theprogram? 70%
How many Local
Board members
were involved in theproject? 25Members

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Methods of Implementation

What methods We organized "Committee of Local Area
and/or activities Development by Junior High and High School
were used to grow Students" for students from junior high and highand develop the school at actively participate in local area
Local development and recruited students.
Organization? -They first came up with kinds of ideas such as

having a school festival at the area. Students did
not fully understood the concept of "junior high andhigh school students realizing the situation of local
areas" and "carry out a project to solve the issue".
-We tried to make each student to have aresponsibility on social development by keeping fourthings in mind which are "what do we want to do","produce satisfaction within a society", "keepchallenging", and "take in others and tell them ourfaith". -There were some students who keep saying"We can’t do it," every time when new idea hascome up. There were meetings that did not makeany progress, and also meetings where everybodykept silent. -One of the graduates from UnitedChildren gave us an advice about the project. Theadvice encouraged students and we focused on one
topic to solve, which is traditional foods in the local
area. This progress made our confidence and hopecome back again. -Students started to think ofrecipes using traditional foods. They tried again andagain to serve the food in the best way and finallycreated the recipe. Then students started to lookfor ingredients they will use for the recipe by asking
local companies and stores for support. President ofthe company understood and agreed with students’idea and supported them with 200 packs ofingredients. -Students improved their responsibility,
relations with different kinds of people, and altruistic
spirit through this project.

Which Students have experienced how fun and important it
method/activity is to work for social development through thewas the most program.
effective in To share the idea to other students at the similar
recruiting new age group, they established "Akita United Children"
members? Why? and spread the information to other students intheir school.
As a result, students who are willing to work forsocial development have increased.
Even a teacher from a school where none of themembers belongs to has asked about the UnitedChildren, which is the evidence for the increasing
students who are interested in social development.

Which Changes and improvements in the members of JC
method/activity who were not supportive toward the activity.
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effective in members of JC noticed about the students’developing current activeness and their no fear for failing, and it
members? Why? improved the members’ consciousness about local

area development. Also, those members who were
not supportive toward the activities become more
supportive.

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Results Achieved

By number, howmany newmembers wererecruited by thisprogram? 0
Which objectives JCI Akita was able to establish students’ will to
did the program work for local area.
achieve? We were also able to notify them about theimportance of development and contribution to thelocal society.
We promoted students’ "Positive Charge" bymaking them realize how valuable their action is.

What was the most Students gained confidence that they can work forimportant outcome local development, and wanted to organize a placeof this program? where they can continuously work on it.

As a result, they established United Children, which
can be considered as children’s JC, in Akita.

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Long-term Impact of the Program

What is the United Children is an independent organization thatexpected long-term they have established.
impact of this This organization will expand a chance for junior highproject? and high school students to join the local

development.
After having such an experience, they will join JC
after going out to the society as a new member andwork for the movement of JC.
Also, there will be an organization that is similar to
United Children from our community and expand themovement.

What changes We must improve our "Advice for the Meeting Heldwould you make to Only by Children".It is because we faced situations
improve the results such as our advice from an adult’s point of viewof this project? have stopped the meeting, and being unable to maketheir plans to come true.
We must learn from the way the graduates fromUnited Children support student without denying
their opinion.

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