Continuous effort to collect miswritten postcard
where everyone’s heart is squeezed in -
Meguro UNESCO Association has completed collecting and sorting miswritten postcards.
On the other hand, there are piles of miswritten postcards in the office of National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan (NFUAJ).
NFUAJ is currently looking for volunteers. Location: Asahi Seimei Ebisu Bldg., 12F
I want to join volunteer activities. How can I do that?” That was a sentence I found in the text book which we were using in Meguro UNESCO’s Japanese language class. I thought it was good timing, so I told them about “miswritten postcards” and suggested we do the sorting. 5 friendship members of the class happily accepted this offer. Thus, on Mar.14 (Tue), we visited NFUAJ after our class. It was the first time for some of the members to see Nenga-hagaki (a special postcard used for new-year greetings) and Kansei-hagaki (an official postcard). Everyone eagerly worked and completed sorting 9000 postcards. It was a good opportunity to learn and experience the meaning of this volunteer activity (UNESCO World Terakoya movement) in the atmosphere where we communicated in Japanese, Korean and English. Some of the members even donated the commuting cost which was provided to each volunteer by NFUAJ. I was very much impressed by everyone’s heart. When it was the time to leave the office, the members’ Japanese, sounding so lively, touched my heart more than ever.
- reported by Yoshiko Nakajima,
staff member of Japanese language classes
