Education Japan Project #11841

Unleash the Potential of Young Changemakers

by ASHOKA JAPAN

Unleash the Potential of Young Changemakers

Project Report | Mar 29, 2016
Sparkle Youth Miyako

By Hiroaki Yabe | Youth Venture Programmatic Leader

Dear GlobalGivers,

We are very thankful for your warm support. it has been 5 years since the earthquake and tsunami hit Tohoku and 4 years since we started Tohoku Youth Venture project. Now we have 52 Tohoku Youth Venture teams who are working for the revival of the Tohoku area.

We would like to introduce Tomoki Yoshihama, one of our Tohoku Youth Venturers who joined YV community in March 2015.

I love Miyako, my hometown.

But lots of my friends in the town say, "Miyako is boring," "this town has nothing," and "I want to leave here as soon as possible."

In addition, after the earthquake, Miyako has been losing its own liveliness even though lots of volunteers came to our town and encouraged our town.

I was wondering what I can do for Miyako.

I planned to create an event that all generations can enjoy and to accomplish it only with the power of our youth as much as possible.

We started a high school student organization SYM in April 2015. Since its establishment, we have volunteered for and run a booth at some existing community events.

Finally, we had SYM FES in February 2016! About 30 high school students joined as staff. We had stage performance like Japanese drums, dances and so on and ran some booth. Over 100 people came and enjoyed our performance.

I believe that our activity will give opportunities for Miyako's youth to recognize the strength s of our town, which I hope will lead to young people's return to the region and to the prevention of the decline of our community. I will keep working on energizing the town and inspiring local youth.

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