Short summary

⌨️ Nowadays, there are many foreigners living in Japan, especially the number of them has increased in Shizuoka city in recent years. Therefore, there are a lot of foreign children living in Shizuoka city and going to nursery school, secondary high school as well as senior high school. However, there are a lot of foreign parents in Shizuoka city who don't know how to help their children enter the nursery school as well as other high level of education. So, I think the authority in Shizuoka city should focus on helping these foreign children have equal education like Japanese children.

Which SDGs this relates to, and how

⌨️ This project is related with the SDGs Target number 4 ( Bringing high education to everyone )

This project is to help all the foreign children in Shizuoka city get more information and chances to enter Japanese senior high school , so it relates to the SDGs target number 4 .

本プロジェクトはSDGｓの目標4番の「質の高い教育を皆に」に直接に関連しています。

本プロジェクトを通して、静岡市に住んでいるすべての外国人子ども達に日本の小中高校への進学チャンスや情報などを提供する事を目的としているため、ＳDGsの目標4番に関わっています。

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

⌨️https://tabunka.n-pocket.com/us/shizugaku/guidebook

Now in Shizuoka prefecture, only about 60% of the foreign students enter into senior high school. This percentage is considerably low when compared with Japanese students. It happens because some students drop out of primary school or junior high school. There are others who want to get in senior high school but are not able to go because of financial reasons, or the lack of understanding of their parents. Therefore, N-pocket which is an organization in Hamamatsu has been organizing guidance of entering a senior high school as well as providing a lot of information a guidebook made by them since 2004. Now, this guidebook is translated to 6 languages: English, Japanese, Portuguese , Spanish, Filipino and Chinese. I still wonder why there are so many Vietnamese families living in Hamamatsu but it is still not translated to Vietnamese. Besides that, Not everyone know about this, especially in Shizuoka city, there is still no guidance about entering Japanese senior high school for foreign children. So, as a Vietnamese person and as a foreigner living in Shizuoka, I want to help all the foreign children in Shizuoka city can get more opportunities to enter Japanese senior high school through my project!

PROJECT PROPOSAL

Introduction

⌨️ According to data from Shizuoka city official site, about 250 foreign children are not getting good Japanese education and the number tends to increase year by year.

https://www.city.shizuoka.lg.jp/000869110.pdf

Many people may say that is just a small number and it shouldn't be considered as a big problem. However, with the dramatical change in multicultural symbiotic societies , the number of foreigner in Shizuoka city will be going to increase quickly and the number of foreign children also increase as a result of this. Although, a bigger problem is that Shizuoka city still not have any guidance book providing with information of entering Japanese school for foreign children.

So, if the authority in Shizuoka does not have any idea to help foreign children in the area, it might become a social problem someday.

Therefore, in this project, I am going to introduce my idea about how to solve this problem.

Main contents

Why

⌨️ Because helping foreign children as well as all of children in the world is making our world a better place

So, what are the benefits from good education?

Securing high income

Developing problem solving skill

Improving the economy

Providing a prosperous and happy life

Giving back good value to the community: Well-educated people can understand what problems that the society are facing and can contribute their knowledge to create many new technologies or things making the community become better.

Creating modern society: Well-educated children will become useful people who can create or make many good things , even just give ideas to change the society better by their knowledge and thinking.

Creating equal opportunities: this helps reduce the unfairness in this life

=>If children have a good education , they can do these things and make the world better. That's why I say children are the world's future.

https://www.habitatbroward.org/benefits-of-education/

Who

⌨️ Foreign children in Shizuoka city

When

⌨️ From this autumn

Tasks and Timeline Brainstorming

① Attending organizations that support children with learning Japanese and see what they do

② Do research ( listen to what the people in these organizations think and what they want/ Besides that, listen to the feelings of foreign children when they attend class held by these organizations and what they need as well as their parents )

③Thinking about the solution (how to make it easier for foreign children and their parents to get a lot of information )

④Connect with the Shizuoka City Association for Multicultural Exchange to hear their ideas and explain the need of providing more information to help foreign children have more chances to enter in Japanese school.

⑤If possible, I may create a guide book written about all of information and ways to enter Japanese school for foreign residents in Vietnamese, Japanese and even English. Besides that, I also use SNS to update and provide a lot of new information.

Where

⌨️ Shizuoka city

How

⌨️By SNS, connection with the authority and related people and provide information about entering Japanese school for all foreigners living in Shizuoka city.

Contact the authority to give them the idea. Make hashtag and get people in Shizuoka city as well as other areas known about it. Create events or attend organizations which aim to help foreign children study Japanese as well as Japan's culture and so on.

Go to see how the Hamamatsu city is doing to support foreign children in their area and learn their way.

Use all my languages skills and get information to write guidance book providing information and ways of entering Japanese school in Shizuoka city.

Preparation

⌨️Do research ( listen to what the people in these organizations think and what they want/ Besides that, listen to the feelings of foreign children when they attend class held by these organizations and what they need as well as their parents )

Attending organizations that support children with learning Japanese and see what they do

Support you need

⌨️ The authority

I am thinking about having a talk with the Shizuoka City Association for Multicultural Exchange to get more specific information

Local community connections

⌨️ Shizuoka City Association for Multicultural Exchange

Global community connections

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Anything else

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References

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Additional Links

⌨️https://www.city.shizuoka.lg.jp/556_000043.html#h2_1

https://www.city.shizuoka.lg.jp/000869110.pdf