JICA Lecture & Special Lecture from JOCV (Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers)

 On June 6th, a lecture ‘Learn from The Most Unique and Happiest Country, Bhutan’ was held for the third-year students.  Tomoki Nitta, the lecturer, has worked as the head of the JICA office in Bhutan for 3 and a half years from 2009 to 2012.  His lecture was so interesting that all the students enjoyed the 50-minute lecture.  They are going to write an essay for the JICA essay contest.

On the same day after school, some lectures were held for first-year and second-year students by two JICA staff members; one had tried music education in Uganda and the other had tried to develop villages in Rwanda.  The lectures based on their personal experiences were full of reality.  The audience listened to them earnestly.

[the participants’ comments]

＊I used to think, “I want to help people in Africa.”  But through this lecture I realized that this was wrong.  And I thought I want to help Japan through going to Africa.  Real happiness was something different from what I had been imagining. I would like to find it in my life.

＊I realized that through thinking about what we can do for other people or other places, we will be able to become more considerate.  When we go abroad, learning foreign languages is not the only thing that we can do.