Unleash the Potential of Young Changemakers

Thank you for your kind support and donations for the Tohoku Youth Venture program by Ashoka Japan. 

Tohoku is the area where tsunami hit in 2011. 4 and a half year has passed from that huge earthquake. Now many young powers are needed and many youth's activities encourage local adults.

Tohoku is the "disaster area" but young people are creating new Tohoku.

We have 48 Tohoku Youth Venturers until now. Some are victims of tsunami and some lost their schools or houses. But they all take actions for their hometown and next generation as high school students. Their activities also have made new venturers around them.  

I would like to introduce to you a Youth Venturers who live in Tohoku.

Yuki (Kamaishi High School)

I live in temporary housing in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture for 4 years.

One day, I had one question;

"Why do people at temporary housings call their houses as "KASETSU"(temporary) not "IE"(home)?" 

I asked my friend. The answer was so simple.

"I can't call "IE" such a gray box!"

I wondered what could help them to call the houses "IE".

People feel a sense of familiarity and ownership towards hand-made things.

So I started a project where I and the residents work together to turn gray temporary housings colorful using colored magnets. (Because the housings made by steel.)

I hope to brighten the town through this project.