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Awards Entry

2014 Asia-pacific Conference
Walking 77 Kilometers - OMOIYARI is Lying Aheadof You
JCI JAPAN

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Entry Information
Award Program:

2014 Asia-Pacific Conference

Category:

NOM Information
National Organization:

National President:

JCI JAPAN

Kazuya Suzuki
E-mail: japan@jci.cc

LOM Information
Local Organization:
President:

JCI Handa
katsuyoshi kondo

President Email: katsuyoshi@daikiyo.co.jp

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Basic Information
Duration : July 27 - 29, and August 25. 2013
Staff : 10 members
Some students at a local university (Nihon Fukushi University) and citizen
Sponsors :volunteers
Budget : 22,000 US dollars
Profit / Loss : None
In which UN MDG bestfit (if apply): ?:Who is benefited ?: Approx. 250,000 citizens living Handa city and the surrounding area
Objective : The object of this mission is to develop as many human resources below
as possible in order to make this area a good place to live with mutualhelp.
1. A person who can think of the people on the other side and takesome actions for them(mutual understanding and compassion)
2. A person who can help someone in trouble(doing what you shoulddo)
JCI Handa was aware of the importance of the relationship again that you
can help each other after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
We has been believing that its local society can turn into the good place tolive by incorporating the policy above.
The area on which JCI Handa is based contains a lot of communities inwhich the residents are able to support each other due to organizations tohold local festivals in each community. More and more residents in thecommunities, however, are gradually becoming able to lead their life
without supporting each other because of the recent lifestyle diversfied
and modernized.
We found it extremely important to develop as many human resources,
especially from children, as possible.
Overview : JCI Handa had the children carry out the program through which thechildren help each other.
The children found it enjoyable and pleasant to help each other at theprogram.
We help the children make it to Positive Change by turning them into theones who can support each other.
Finally, We succeeded in offering the children some chances to share theexperience above with their friends.
We had the participants, who all were children, walk 77 kilometers
together for three days.
We gave the children some requests at an appropriate time in order forthem to carry out mutual help.
We divided the children into several teams. We and some volunteers fromthe local citizens helped the teams carry out the program.
Day 1. We had the children know each member of the team thathe/she belonged to(mutual understanding, compassion).
Day 2. We gave the children some requests for them to help theirteam members, and had them look back on how they felt after theirtaking actions.
Day 3. We provided the children with some opportunities that thechildren could help each other(do your duty).
A month later. We put on a meeting in which the children show each other
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how much they helped others in their life after the program.
Results : Each of the children could help the other team members who joined theprogram. Each of the children could behave properly toward their family
members or friends in their daily life thinking of them on the other side.
Each of the children could decide to keep thinking of the others aroundthem in the future. We managed to develop more children who could takean act to help the others.

Excerptions from the participants survey results
1. 99 percent children found it important to support each other while
walking 77 kilometers, and 76 percent out of the 99 percent
children showed 'I understood the importance very much' in theiranswers.
2. 93 percent children showed in their answers that they became able
to take actions to help others in their daily life after they joined theprogram.
3. 99 percent children showed in their answers that they would keep
helping others in the future.

Excerptions from the parents of the participants survey
results
1. 83 percent parents showed in their answers that they be careaware of some acts that the children took that they knew theimportance of helping each other.
Actions Taken : 2013
January - March
Conducting research in order to decide what theme should bechosen, and field survey
April - May
Conducting some field survey for carrying out the program
June
Visiting education boards and social welfare councils in the local
towns to ask for participation in the program
June-July
Conducting the last field surveys (6 times)
June 26
Preliminary briefing session (for JCI team leaders)
July 4
Preliminary briefing session (for volunteer staff members and JCI
Handa members)
July 14Preliminary briefing session (for participants and their guardians)
July 27 - 29
Kicking off the program
August 25
Presentation of the program (for participants and their guardians)
August 25
Collecting participant survey papers
August 26 - 30
Evaluation of the survey and the program.

The Schedule on the day of the program (July 27 - 29)
July 27 (Day 1)
6:30 a.m.
Leaving Handa City for Kosai City, Sizuoka Prefecture, by bus
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9:10 a.m.
Leaving Kosai City for the goal, dropping by three points for takinga rest
Letting the participants tackle some requests to understand how theother team members were like.
6:00 p.m.
Arriving at the first accommodation in Toyohashi City, Aichi
Prefecture (which is 22 kilometers awary from Kosai CIty), taking abath, having dinner
7:30 p.m.
Holding a general meeting and a team meeting
9:30 p.m.
Going to bed
July 28 (Day 2)
5:00 a.m.
Waking up and having breakfast
6:00 a.m.
Leaving the accommodation, dropping by five places for taking arest
Giving the participants some requests to positively help the teammembers on their way to the goal
6:00 p.m.
Arriving at the second accommodation in Nishio City, Aichi
Prefecture (which is 27 kilometers away from Toyohashi CIty),taking a bath, having dinner
7:30
Holding a general meeting and a team meeting
9:30
Going to bed
July 29 (Day 3)
5:00 a.m.
Waking up
6:00 a.m.
Leaving the accommodation, dropping by six places for taking arest
6:10 p.m.
Arriving at the goal, Handa City (which is 28 kilometers away fromNishio City)
6:30 p.m.
Welcome Home Ceremony, announcing the declaration for mutualhelping
7:20 p.m.
Closing the program
Recommendations : We succeeded in developing more children who could take an action formutual helping.
These points below can be the critical reasons that led to the success.
1. We first let the children understand how the other team members.
We let the children carry on understanding the other members,
getting aware of the difference in the members, and taking actions.
This action by us brought the children establish good relationship ineach team.(mutual understanding, compassion)
2. We let the children think of how the other group members changed
after they took action to help the other group members. Thechildren got aware of their good change. The children came toknow the children themselves and the others became happy by
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their taking action to help each other. This result pointed to thefurther motivation for the children to keep taking action to help
others. It also caused the children's voluntary action. (do your duty)
3. We let the children make a declaration for mutual helping, which
managed to hold them accountable for thinking about mutualhelping with their team members. (do your duty)
4. We created an ideal environment that made it easy for the children
to help each other, which should have been the one that eachchildren couldn't create alone or achieve alone.
In addition, our members, volunteer members, and local university
students also found it important to have mutual understanding andcompassion while they developed the children into human resources who
can positively help others. They succeeded in becoming aware of theimportance to develop not only children but also adults into such humanresources.
We tried to make the parents involved in the program because it expected
them to help the children take an action for mutual helping, andencouraged them to shift themselves to Positive Change. However, in fact,
the target that we held 'walking 77 kilometers' had so strong impact thatmost of the parents couldn't help paying their attention to'accomplishment'.
Participant survey from the parents showed that 40 percent parents talked
about accomplishment at the comment column in which the parents could
write about anything freely.
We asked all the parents to attend the brief session and explained thetarget of the program to them.
Most the parents seemed to understand the purpose of the program.
However, there should be some room to reconsider how to make sure of
the parents' understanding or how to let the parents involved in theprogram.
The excerptions from the survey from which we reached theconclusion above
They(the children) learned something: you can make it unless you stop it,
not giving up is very important.
They(the children) seemed to become mentally/physically strong.

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1Award Category criteria

In order to get our community developed, JCI Handa
are going to produce as many people below aspossible.
1. People who can think about someone/something
on the other side and take some actions for them.
(mutual understanding, compassion)
2. People who can help someone in trouble.(doyour duty)
The point that this program can empower JCI Handa
members in order for the members to make bigger
impact which can meet the demand in the world.
We managed to carry out this program within thebudget.
We used camping facility as accommodations, which
we could reduce about 6,000 dollars.
Using such camping facility is effective not only ingiving the children some chances to help each otherbut also in reducing the expense.
Promotion of JCI Vision
We brought children some opportunities called"Positive Change", which could let the children thinkby themselves and voluntarily take some actions tohelp each other.
Promotion of JCI MissionWe succeeded in expanding some local networks,
especially the network with children, which should bea basis of the global network by organizing theprograms for children.

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1. people who can take some actions consideringon the other side(mutual understanding andcompassion)
2. people who can help others in trouble (do yourduty)These human resources above are the group of people
who can take some actions with abilities for mutual
understanding and compassion.
It means that they are carrying out OMOIYARI
movement.
For peacekeeping, we have to spread the skill formutual understanding and the mind about compassion.
The activities by children through this program will
help spread those things and help keep peace all overthe world.
The volunteer staff members helped the JCI Handa
members with the program in order to turn the children
joined the program into the people with an ability tohelp each other.
In addition, the volunteer staff members themselves
succeeded in realizing the idea for mutual
understanding and carrying out the mind.
We held brief sessions for the guardians of the children
in order for them to understand the propgram.
Consequently, we succeeded in developing morehuman resources who promote peace by making more
people who can help each other.

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Award Category criteria

JCI Handa will develop as many people below as
possible:
1. the people who can take actions thinking on theother side
2. the people who can help someone else in troubleThis activity will result in turning the area into the one
in which the residents help each other and feel
comfortable.
The children succeeded in taking actions to practically
help their family members or friends.
The children decided to keep taking the actions to help
others in the future.
The actions that the children take can make theirfamily members or friends feel happy.
Their parents be care aware of the importance to help
each other through their children's change.
Their parents are sure that they can change their mindand attitude with the change of the children.

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Award Category criteria

The value improvement of JCI Handa: thepromotion
Forming the network between children and us
Forming the network between the guardians and us
Obtaining reliability from the parents.
More and more children have been taking part inanother activity that we organizes once they joined theactivity.
The improvement of the Jaycee's abilities
Enlightening the other our members to the promotionof JCI Mission and OMOIYARI movement.
We succeeded in providing children with theopportunities to become someone who can think aboutothers on the other side and help each other.
We provided the children with the chances of change
called "Positive Change", which could help thechildren voluntarily think by themselves and obtainsome abilities to take actions.
Obtaining the change called "Positive Change", a large
number of the children made Young Active Citizen in
the local communities.

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The participating children came up with thoughts
about the people around them such as their family
members or friends and put the thoughts into practice.
Those actions automatically matched the ones
performed under OMOIYARI movement.
The children's actions can lead to offering anotheryoung people some opportunities to get "PositiveChange".
In addition, when the participating children and Young
Active Citizen influenced by the children grow to beparents, they will show their own children
OMOIYARI movement.
This should lead the virtuous circle from generation togeneration now and in future, and produce another
Young Active Citizen with an ability in mutual
understanding and compassion. As a result, thesepeople can lead the local communities to peace, whichshould be the first step to lead nations and the world topeace.
(Providing parent generations with opportunities tojoin the activities)
The activities brought a good result for the parentswho indirectly participated in the activities.
The more opportunities to let the parents join, thebetter results we are able to obtain.
Moreover, we can expect the participating children togrow "Be Better".
Through the project, the parents positively joined in
the presentation meeting or gathering which was held
after the project. They came to know how the children
was changing on hand, and gave JCI Handa on thechange.
This indicates that the children can effectively achieve
their goals with the guide by the parents.
In order to achieve the goals that we plan, we think weshould work on a couple of things below:
A. Instituting measures to encourage parents tounderstand the description of the projects
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B. Providing parents with better questionnaires
C. Enhancing the reliability for us from parents

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