Congo Project was launched by professor Simon Bedelo and professor Yoko Hasebe for building a sustainable education system. Our vision is to make society of Congo and Japan better together. Through our experiences from building ACADEX primary school, we aim to magnify our project with more fields in Congo. Recently, we collaborate with Congolais NGO, companies and students and now in 2019 our midterm goal is to make the society where people can take action with entrepreneurship. We put our project forward collaborating own interests and demands in Congo.
This project was started in 2011. Our field is Kuchinoerabu island. Its located next to Yakushima island, Kagoshima Prefecture. The population is about 100, it is decreasing now. In the future, facing the crisis that cant continue the island society.Now, we are set the mission, Creating as an island of Education with the island people under the collaboration system between the region and the university.We aim to build a model for sustainable community development under the closely collaborate with the island people and students want to do.
We are working in the Fujisawa City Endo area where SFC is located.The project was launched with a sense of awareness that the relationship between SFC and the Endo area, the area closest to us, was weak.Currently, with the residents of the Endo area, we are launching a children's co-cooking program and implementing content for elementary school students in local area walks.With a focus on community-based education, we will conduct practical research on the role of universities and university students in the region, with university students participating in the children's co-cooking program as an example.
This project is working on the community revitalization achieved through education. Our field is Kaida Highlands in Kiso city, Nagano and in this region, there is only one junior high school with 26 students in total. This makes it hard for the students to feel the diversity in their daily life. In the past, students in Kaida Highlands deepened the understanding of their own culture through the cross-cultural communication with the exchange students from SFC. We are trying not only to create an opportunity for the students to widen their perspective but also to revitalize the community by making a new flow of people through workshops. In order to do this, we are working with different kinds of people in the region, such as the teachers and the local officials.
We, Glocal English Project hold English workshops at 4 elementary/junior-high schools in Kanagawa and Tokyo. In addition, we hold short-term workshops that allow the participating students to understand cross-culture and to acquire English as a communication tool. Each of us sets research themes, for example, changes in learning attitude, and learning motivation. We conduct workshops based on the themes.
Congo Project was launched by professor Simon Bedelo and professor Yoko Hasebe for building a sustainable education system. Our vision is to make society of Congo and Japan better together. Through our experiences from building ACADEX primary school, we aim to magnify our project with more fields in Congo. Recently, we collaborate with Congolais NGO, companies and students and now in 2019 our midterm goal is to make the society where people can take action with entrepreneurship. We put our project forward collaborating own interests and demands in Congo.