Meguro UNESCO Association is Making Efforts to PromoteEducational Opportunities for Children Overseas
To support the World Terakoya movement, we donated in the last fiscal year, through the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan, 400,000 yen to Laos and 300,000 yen to the Philippines. We also made a contribution, through other bodies, to the Darunee Scholarship Program helping Thai children attend junior high school, and to the Sakura-Lanka Scholarship Program for children in Sri Lanka. We have been supporting those two scholarship programs for more than 20 years (33,000 yen/year to Darunee; 36,000 yen/year to Sakura-Lanka). We have recently received a Darunee newsletter and the photos of children receiving scholarship this year.
Porntiwa Lueang-On, a girl in the first year of junior high school, lives in a fatherless family. Weeradech Bodtaisong (left photo) is a second year boy whose dream is to become a teacher, a soldier, or a lawyer. Thawatchai Ratananet (right photo), who is in his third year, seems to be anxious to go on to high school. We would like to help them as much as we can. For a family whose income is one dollar a day or less, scholarship, even in small amounts, seems to be a very encouraging support. We would like to go on watching the children’s growth and development.
- Fumiko Harada, International Support Activity Committee
