Background

“As a typical characteristic of the Sacred Heart, our students have a challenging spirit of striving beyond borders” quoting Eriko Oyama RSCJ, the school headmistress – creating networking is the foundation of it. The school philosophy is to experience the spirit of sharing and foster the experiences of service work.

Objective

To form students as future agents of social transformation according to the spirit of justice, peace and integrity of the creation (JPIC).

Activities

To express solidarity with people in need

  • Volunteer service for the “refugee” people in Tokyo from the area of Fukushima atomic power plant accident
  • Volunteer service at elderly people’s homes and at homes for disadvantaged people
  • Writing Christmas cards to the kids in Kamaishi district, suffered from Tohoku earthquake disaster
  • Learning the sign language and braille

Awareness raising activities

  • Exposure experience: one-week study tour to Cambodia  
  • SOFIS: SOFIS stands for the first letters of the five Sacred Heart schools in Japan: Sapporo (Hokkaido), Obayashi (Hy?go), Fuji (Shizuoka), ISSH, and Sankocho (Tokyo) and is an inter-school networking on JPIC issues. The programme study group lately focused on the refugee issue. 
  • Global Class Room: International Model United Nations Conference. The Global Classroom is a US-based global education programme belonging to the UN Association for the USA that engages middle school and high school students in the deepening of current world matters through Model United Nations (students step into the shoes of UN Ambassadors  and debate a range of issues on the UN Agenda)
  • A study tour to Nagasaki, the site of the atomic bomb

Outcomes

Students feel compassion for people in need and understanding of a larger world and cultures preventing them from ignorance and prejudice.

Students develop creativity in initiating actions.  

 

People being served

People being served : Agents of transformation (Educators)

Age group : Children 0-17

Schedule

Project status : Ongoing

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Overview

Society presence : Japan

Focus of the project : Peace

JPIC Imperative : Transforming and Being Transformed

UN Sustainable Development Goals : 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, 17 Partnerships for the Goals