Don't take education for granted.

Let's do what we can do now!

Don't take education for granted. Let's do what we can do now!

Juan, Kaede, Saho

Brainstorming and Notepad(What problems are you aware of? What are you curious about?)

We know about this.

Many people in this university take high quality education.

This is a school for poor and disadvantaged and troubled children →Utaka　

Some people in Japan retire from university.

　 In Japan, many people take high quality education compared to developing countries.

Children in poor countries can’t go to school because they don’t have money or they have to work instead of going to school.

We have access to education without problems in Japan. However, there are many differences in education in the world.

What we want to know.

Did you know how much money your parents pay for you in order to commute to school?

→ In Japan, it cost about 5.4millon yen to graduate from high school and 8~9 million yen to graduate from university.

What initiatives is the school take to achieve quality education?

I want to know the difference in the world’s approach to education. (ex.In Vietnam, they have to pay tuition to go to elementary school.)

How many people don't take education in Japan and developing countries?

What triggers the differences in education?

What are the local characteristics and problems?

This problem is not only for children but also for elderly people who couldn't study because of their family reasons or something.

For them, night schools and Online school are made.　

　As there are many points of concern, it is necessary to focus on each one.

Narrow down your (SDG-related) topic(s) or problems you are interested in.

　　Activities for children's learning that we can find nearby.

Hypothesis or question
- What do you know?

How many donation boxes for donating to education are there around Kusanagi?

What kind of education donation boxes are there? (money or items?)

- How did you become interested in this?

There are many donation boxes, but we were interested in how many were related to education.

- What should you know about?

We should know how many donation boxes are in what range.

- Question: How many donation boxes for donating to education are there around Kusanagi?

Hypothesis: We estimate that the number of donation boxes for education is small.

How will you collect data to answer the question?
- Things. (e.g., observe and notes, photos, audio, video, collect and tally, ???, ???, ???).

Observe, count and take pictures.

- Locations. (home, street, train, shops, school, job, city, books, documents, nature, media, internet, SNS, ???, ???, ???)

convenience stores, some shops, department store, supermarket

- Describe your process, step by step. Be specific.

Decide the area we observe and go there. Walk around and drop into some shops like convenience stores, and if we can find the boxes, we count and take pictures.

Do a risk assessment. Are there any dangers involved in your data collection?

I guess we will have some risks like crossing the road with many cars and pedestrians.

Collect and record data

We walk and find donation boxes.

We found donation boxes in convenience stores. (Seven eleven, Ministop, Lawson, Family mart )

In department store (Mark is), there are donation boxes at two stores. ( Right-on, UNIQLO)

Analyze data. What does your data show? What are the trends and outliers, main aspects and minor interesting details in the data?

In the first place, only few shops had donation boxes. Even if there were, they were only a famous chain stores. There was no donation box in the mall itself, not inside the store. Most of the boxes were for nature support and it was difficult to find donation boxes for supporting children's education.

However, most of convenience stores had donation boxes.

Answer your question or hypothesis using your data. Present your answer clearly. Summarize and highlight important aspects. Why are your findings interesting?

We found donation boxes and all of them collected money.

Four convenience store in Kusanagi have donation box. →Seven eleven, Ministop, Lawson, Family mart (Donation box in Seven eleven is not about education.)

Reflect. Do an evaluation of your process and data. (what problems did you realize from your data/analysis? What could/should you do better next time?)

・Fundraising is not everything, but I realized that ordinary people have little means to help children's education. There is a lot of interests in the environment, but I feel that people are not interested in anything else.

・The area of research was too broad, so we should narrow down the area of research.

・The number of donation boxes is small. (It may be due to the advancement of cashless society.)

Connect. How does this fieldwork connect to you and your future?

・This fieldwork gave me a opportunity to think more about education.

　・I will start to actively donate if there are donation boxes .

Short summary

⌨️We work for people who have difficulties getting educations and making places where they can concentrate on their studies.

私たちは教育を受けることが困難な人たちのため、そして彼らが勉強に専念できる居場所を作るために活動を行います。

Which SDGs this relates to, and how

⌨️This work relates to Goal04:Quality Education

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong leaning opportunities for all.

すべての人に公正な質の高い教育を確保し、生涯学習の機会を促進する。

This goal is not only for students, but also adults to get work skills. Moreover, promoting high quality education for all people lead to solve poverty issue.

この目標は、単に生徒だけでなく、働く技能を得るために大人も対象としている。また、すべての人に高い質の教育を促進することは貧困問題の解決にもつながります。

ゴール４：質の高い教育をみんなに | 国際開発センター（IDCJ）SDGs室

Why this research matters to you, to the local community, and to the global community

⌨️We can go to college as a matter of course, but this isn't a matter of course. There are a lot of people in the world who want to study but can't do it because of some difficulties , and then it becomes hard to achieve their dreams for the future. Because we learn the fun and importance of studying, we thought that we should work on this problem by contributing to the solution of poverty.

私たちは当たり前のように大学に進学できていますが、これは決して当たり前のことではありません。勉強したくてもできない人、またそれによって将来の夢を叶えることが大変な人が世界にはたくさんいます。勉強の楽しさ、大切さを学んでいる私たちだからこそ、貧困問題の解決への貢献のためにも、この問題に取り組むべきだと考えました。

(RESEARCH REPORT)

Introduction

Are you satisfied with your education? We learned from the news that some students were forced to quit university due to family reasons. It's not a matter of course that you can get an education. There are a lot of people who can't study even if they want to do all over the world, and closer than you think. It is said that about 303,000,000 children can't go to school in the world. After thinking about how we could help these people, We thought that raising money was the familiar method and the easiest way for anyone to work on. So this time, we decided to research the number of donation boxes that support education nearby.

世界の就学状況報告書発表学校に通っていない子ども3億300万人 (unicef.or.jp)

あなたは教育を満足に受けれていますか？コロナ禍の今、家庭の事情で大学を辞めざるを得ない生徒がいることをニュースで知りました。教育を受けることが出来るのは、当たり前のことではありません。世界中、そして案外身近にも、勉強をしたくてもできない人がたくさんいます。世界には、約3億３百万人の学校に通えない子どもがいると言われています。そして、そんな人たちをどうやって支援できるか考えた結果、募金が一番身近で、そして誰でも取り組みやすい方法だと考えました。よって今回、私たちは身近にある教育を支援する募金箱の数を調査することにしました。

Main contents

Who

children, people who want to study (get an education), we (student) 子どもたち、教育を受けたい人、私たち生徒

Your fieldwork

⌨️The research of the donation boxes for education around Kusanagi 草薙周辺の教育に関する募金箱の調査

What

⌨️Donation boxes (Especially for education) 募金箱（特に教育に関する募金箱）

When

⌨️June 10th and 17th.　6月10日と17日。

Where

⌨️Convenience stores, restaurants and department stores (including Parco), etc. around Kusanagi Station from Shizuoka Prefectural University.静岡県立大学から草薙駅周辺のコンビニエンスストア、飲食店、デパート等。(パルコ)

How

⌨️We research the number of educational donation boxes in the store. We asked permission to take some photos and put in this homepage.

店内にある教育に関連する募金箱の数を調査しました。募金箱があるところでは、写真やホームページへの掲載の許可をとりました。

Why

⌨It because we are interested in education. We think that support is very important for people who want to get an education but can not get due to various reasons. Donation is a way to support and help them so we research the number of educational donation boxes.

なぜなら私たちは教育に関して興味があるからです。教育を受けたいのに、様々な理由により受けることが出来ない人にとって支援がとても大切であると私たちは思っています。募金は、彼らを支援し手助けするための1つの方法です。なので、今回私たちは募金箱について調査することにしました。

Results

We found donation boxes in convenience stores. (Seven eleven, Ministop, Lawson, Family mart )

In department store (Mark is), there are donation boxes at two stores. ( Right-on, UNIQLO)

In parche (パルシェ), there is a donation box at book store.

In drugstore, there is donation box.

私たちは、コンビニで募金箱を見つけました。（セブンイレブン、ミニストップ、ローソン、ファミリーマート）

マークイズには、2か所のお店の中に募金箱がありました。（ライトオン、ユニクロ）

パルシェには、本屋に募金箱がありました。

ドラッグストアにも、募金箱がありました。

Problems

1.About the number of donation boxes

募金箱の数について

We visited many stores and found that the number of donation boxes was low. One of the reasons for this is the trend toward cashless transactions, and the fact that cash payments themselves are on the decline. Among them, there seemed to be even fewer, especially those focusing on education.

多くの店舗を訪れ,募金箱の数が少ないと思いました。キャッシュレス化が進み、現金の決済自体が減少傾向にあることが原因の一つとして挙げられます。その中でも、特に教育に焦点を当てたものはさらに少ないように感じました。

2.Location of donation boxes

募金箱の設置場所について

Most of the donation boxes were located next to the cash register. However, if they are just set up, we may not notice them unless you are aware of them. Because it's next to the cash register, only shoppers can donate, and unless we shop, it's hard to notice the donation boxes. We thought it was a problem that it was hard to be noticed even though the donation boxes were set up.　We thought that everyone can notice it at the entrance such as next to the sanitizer.

大体の募金箱はレジの横に設置されていました。しかし、ただ設置されているだけでは、意識を向けない限り気が付かないこともあります。レジ横にあるため、買い物をする人しか募金できず、また買い物をしない限り募金箱に気が付きにくいのです。

折角募金箱が設置されているにも関わらず、気づかれ辛いことは問題だと思いました。消毒液の横など、入口付近なら誰でも気付くことが出来ると考えました。

Actions

1. Set up donation boxes at universities and other institutions close to you.

We thought that placing them in public institutions such as universities related to education would be more effective in raising awareness of donation. Many people at universities are familiar with education, so we thought it would be easy for them to pay attention to donation boxes for education.

1.大学などの身近な機関に募金箱の設置をする。

教育に関係する大学などの公共機関に設置することで、より募金への意識を向ける効果が期待できると思いました。

大学にいる人たちの多くは教育が身近にあるため、教育を支援する募金箱に関心を向けてもらいやすいと考えました。

2.Play fund-raising activities by themselves.

We thought that the money earned by creating and selling something by ourselves could be used for donation for education.

2.自分たちで募金活動をする。

自分たちで何かを作成し売ることで得たお金を教育の募金にあてることができると考えました。

3.Cashless fundraising.

Since the use of cash is decreasing, we should think of a cashless way to donate so that even people who don't have cash can donate. We felt that it would be good if we could make a cashless donation by simply reading a QR code.

3.キャッシュレス募金

現金の使用が減っているので、普段現金を持っていない人でも募金できるようにキャッシュレスでも募金できる方法を考えるべきだと考えました。QRコードを読み取るだけでキャッシュレスで募金ができたらいいのではないかと感じました。

Other people/groups working on this problem

Local community connections

Global community connections

UNICEF（ユニセフ）

NGO

Conclusion

What we learned this semester:

・We think the number of donation boxes are small. We should put donation boxes in many more places.

・We noticed that many people should have more opportunities to think about education.

・Donation boxes are not entirely absent in our cities and towns. In addition, there are many sites on the Internet that deal with donation for education.

・We felt it was important to bring a little awareness about education when we were shopping or touching my phone. For example, post education-related posts on SNS, or set up the donation for education in a more visible place.

・私たちは募金箱の数が少ないと感じ、もっとたくさんの場所に募金箱を設置するべきだと思いました。

・私たちは、より多くの人が、教育に関することを考える機会を増やすべきだと気づきました。　

・募金箱が私たちの住む街に全くないわけではありません。さらに、インターネット上にも教育に関する募金を取り扱ったサイトが沢山あります。

・買い物をしているときやスマホを触っているときに、教育に関してほんの少しでも意識を向けることが大切だと感じました。