Biennial Report WFWP - Overseas Volunteer Activities - International Service Projects - 2019－

“The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020” Overview These are the charts of the progress from Goal 1 to Goal 6 related to the activity field of WFWP. *Plase See P3 for Goal 1 and P4 for Goal 2.

Source：The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020, https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2020/#sdg-goals

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FOREWORD Women’s Federation for World Peace（WFWP）is an NGO, founded in 1992.

Our Vision（The World We Are Aiming For） With the spirit of love and harmony by women, we aim for a peaceful world where everyone lives happily.

Our Mission Based on the idea that “Humankind is a family living in one global home, the Earth”, ● We strive to establish family ethics centered on “education” and foster youths, and strive to solve various problems in modern society. ● We strive to “eradicate poverty” and “improve the status of women” through community-based support. Founder of WFWP：Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon

AS A UNITED NATIONS NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION（UN NGO） In 1997, “WFWP International（WFWPI）” which is organized by WFWP chapters around the world, was ac- credited as a UN NGO in consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council. Since then, the UN NGO Committee has reviewed the “Quadrennial Report” submitted by WFWPI and it has continued its general consultative status in 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017. “WFWP Japan” is the Japan branch of “WFWPI”.

WFWP is working on women’s empowerment, education and poverty eradication to contribute to the achievement of the “Sustainable Development Goals（SDGs）” set by the UN. Furthermore, as a way to create a network of peace, we have also promoted the “international sisterhood movement” in which women over- come past history and reconcile by becoming sisters.

WIDE-RANGING ACTIVITIES We are engaged in various activities at home and abroad to fulfill the vision and mission of WFWP. In overseas countries, we are mainly engaged in projects for（1）women’s independence support and status improvement,（2）children’s education,（3）medical / health support, and（4）AIDS prevention education. In Japan, in addition to activities to support international service projects, we are developing grassroots volunteer activities for education reform such as support for female international students, Japanese speech contest for female international students, mother’s cram school, and adolescent lectures. （Visit our traslated website: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&u=https://wfwp.jp/）

In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, overseas travel was restricted and WFWP Japanese overseas volunteers were unable to travel to their mission countries. Even under such circumstances, we have made handmade masks saying “Let’s think about what we can do now and act”, have sent them to their mission countries with a message of support, and have held online status check and communication meetings with foster children.

This booklet is a summary of some of the activities which WFWP Japanese overseas volunteers and members of WFWP International had carried out for attainment of SDGs. In order to have you understand our efforts for contribution to achieve SDGs, we report activities according to the goals of SDGs in this booklet. WFWP would appreciate your understanding and guidance as to our efforts.

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Goal 1 End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Target 1.4 By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance

Microfinance Middle East Jordan Microfinance Outline: The project began in October 2000 in order to support independence for women. Since women are restricted to go out in public freely in Islamic society, it is easy for them to use the microfinance system be- cause it allows them to run a small business at home. The target is women who live in the capital city, Am- man, and 4 other areas. A loan recipient signs a contract with two guarantors. Each person can receive a loan of 300JD（≒$423）for the first time and 400JD（≒$564） to 500JD（≒$705）depending on the stance of repay- ment and degree of success with no interest, and repay monthly within 10 times. The repayment amount and 2% of the amount as administrative fee are collected, and Sales of Jew’s Mallow life and management guidance is also provided. Meetings for recipients are held in order for them to share their experiences in their business and receive education for mothers. We promote mental indepen- dence through these meetings. *JD=Jordan Dinar

The kind of businesses: Sales of clothing, miscella- neous goods, sweets, cosmetics, and etc.

New Developments （2019） ● A total of 30 loans for women who are aged 30 to 50 years and live in Wadi Al Seer and Bayader, suburban of Amman. Repayment rate was 100%.

（2020） ● A total of 7 loans for women aged 30 to 50. Management of a Variety Store Management of a Tailor Shop ● The repayment rate became severe due to the COVID-19 pandemic and it was 50%. ● The loan was canceled in March. “The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020” Overview

Repayment Failure Rate 4.20%

Repayment Success Rate 95.8％

2003-2020 Average Repayment Rate

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Goal 2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture Target2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons.

Nutrition Guidance Africa Zambia Food Project（Nutrition Class） Outline: In 1994, WFWP began to supply soy flour to malnourished children under 5 years old in Ndora City. Since January 1995, WFWP has held nutrition classes every first and third Friday of the month at a couple of clinics in the capital city, Lusaka, in cooperation with local doctors, nurses and staff members. These nutrition classes are introduced to mothers of malnourished children under age 5 if the child weighs less Delivering Soy Flour and Eggs than average during a regular checkup at the clinics. A child is fed soy flour porridge and her/his weight variation is monitored in the class. These classes provide the mothers with a supply of soy flour for two weeks（1Kg） and instructions so that they can make porridge and feed the children at home. Feeding the children for three to four months as instructed typically brings the weight of the children up to the standard level. When the children attain the standard weight, the mothers and children can graduate from the class. A doctor who is a member of WFWP Zambia provides nutrition and hygiene guidance on a regular basis. Participant mothers are trained to assist the program as “Nutrition Promoters.” They are actively assisting the program. Gifts of Yarn Hats for Children Since 2010, in order to promote economic independence of mothers who participate in the nutrition class, WFWP has offered sewing classes at the WFWP Percentage of Children who Gained Back Standard Weight Zambia office in Lusaka City. 100% 52 90% 67 New Developments（2019） 80% children children ● Nutrition classes were held twice a month every other 70% （37％） （48％） Number of Children who gained week at the “Mandevu Clinic”. Due to the occurrence 60% 50% back standard weight of cholera, cooking and demonstrations could not be 40% Number of Children who could not performed, but weight measurement, nutritional 30% gain back standard weight Total of Total of guidance by clinic staff, and distribution of soybean 20% Particpated Particpated 10% flour and eggs were implemented. There were times 0% Children - 140 Children - 140 when 100 pairs of parents and children participated 2019 2020

at one time. ● Nutrition classes were held twice a month every other “The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020” Overview week at the “Garden Clinic”. Since the tent was set up and the class was held outdoors, the numbers of participants and graduates were small because of the rainy season. An average of 50 pairs of parents and children participated each time. ● When a WFWP overseas volunteer for Zambia visited Zambia in December, she distributed hand-knitted hats donated by WFWP Chiba 3rd District Federation of Japan with soybean flour. ● The number of students of sewing classes was 15 women. （2020） ● Nutrition classes were held twice a week every other week at “Mandevu Clinic” and “Garden Clinic”. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, WFWP Zambia made the masks and distributed them to the staff of nutrition classes. In order to avoid denseness, demonstration was not held and the staff distributed soybean flour and eggs after nutrition guidance. ● The sewing class was suspended for a while due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It resumed in October and 5 women participated.

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Goal 3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Target 3.3 By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases

AIDS Prevention Education Africa

Ghana Outline: Since 1995, WFWP Ghana and WFWP Japanese volunteers for Ghana have carried out AIDS prevention education cooperated with local youth organizations. Pointing out flaws in contraceptive education promoting condoms, we use educational materials which were developed based on abstinence and self-control education before marriage to give guidance on AIDS prevention. In 2002, with the support of the World Bank and the Government of Ghana, WFWP carried out prevention education through a drama group and set up a prevention Character Education Seminar at the “Mount Mary School” center. Since 2009, WFWP has held a series of seminars using materials such as “Free Teens”, “Living in the Era of elementary school pupils and junior high school students. AIDS” which was developed by WFWP Japan and etc. ● On June 30, a seminar on character and family Since 2014, using both flip-charts and PowerPoint education was held at the “Assemblies of God Church” presentations, the seminars have been held more effectively. in Abensu Village, Pokuase, for approximately 80 Implementation villagers. A Ghanaian foster child supported by WFWP （2019） Japan became a medical intern and assisted the ● On June 26, WFWP held an AIDS prevention education seminar. seminar at the “Mount Mary School” in Amasaman, the ● In 2019, 570 people participated in seminars on AIDS capital of Ga West Municipal District, for approximately 100 prevention education and others held by WFWP. elementary school pupils and junior high school students. （2020） ● On June 28, an AIDS prevention education seminar was ● The seminars could not be held because the Ministry held at the “Medie International School” in Medie Village, of Education of Ghana could not approve our activities Pokuase, a suburb of Accra City, for approximately 80 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mauritania Outline: WFWP Japanese volunteers for Mauritania started AIDS prevention education in 2001 when HIV cases increased among the young people in Mauritania. WFWP uses “Living in the Era of AIDS” which is a PowerPoint presentation as a teaching material translated into French, and the Japanese volunteers added material about the situation of Africa. In areas without electricity, they used flip charts. In Mauritania, AIDS prevention education has spread by word of mouth; some who received AIDS prevention education were impressed by the contents and introduced others. Implementation Pariticpants Listening to the Lecture at the National Public Health School （2019） ● On November 1, the seminar was held at a junior high school for approximately 40 third and fourth graders in the ● On November 14, the contents of AIDS prevention boomtown Chami City. The students listened attentively education was introduced to 20 staff members of the while taking notes. The principal agreed with the WFWP’s NGO “Association Nour”, introduced by the Ambassador educational content on AIDS prevention and has of Mauritania to Japan. They were very impressed by incorporated it into the classes of the school. He what they heard for the first time and commented that commented that he would like to create an AIDS prevention they would like to gather more people to introduce club in his school in the future and promote the content on WFWP’s AIDS education. abstinence and self-control through the active involvement ● On November 18, the seminar was held for approx.70 of the students. The school gave a letter of appreciation to students and doctors at the “National School of Public WFWP Japanese volunteers for Mauritania. Health”（a training school for nurses and midwives）in ● On November 2, the seminar was held for 24 young Nouakchott. They had detailed knowledge of AIDS, men and women at the “Kandahar Association” in but were impressed by the content of abstinence and Arafat, the suburb of the capital city Nouakchott. The self-control. content in French was interpreted into the tribal （2020） language of Pulaar. The participants seemed to be ● Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the seminars could very interested in what they heard for the first time. not be held.

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Kenya Outline: Since the annual death toll from AIDS of Kenya is estimated to be about 100,000, Kenya is one of the most HIV-infected countries in Africa. WFWP Kenya and WFWP Japanese volunteers for Kenya have implemented AIDS prevention education since 1995. The target audiences are students, teachers, staff members and PTA of the “Handow Junior and Senior High School”. Centering on PowerPoint presentation of “Living in the era of AIDS”, the program instructs medical knowledge, prevention methods, ways of life, as well as character education.

Implementation （2019） ● On June 8, the seminar of “Living in the Era of AIDS” A Seminar at the “Handow Junior and Senior High School” was held for 300 students of the “Handow Junior and Senior High School”. and was one in 2019. It was an outstanding result of ● On June 17, the lecture of character education was AIDS prevention education and character education. held for 200 students and 12 teachers at the school. （2020） ● After the start of AIDS prevention education, the ● The school was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic number of pregnancies of girl students has decreased and the seminar could not be held.

A Seminar at an Elementary School Visit to UNAIDS Trinidad and Tobago Office

Caribbean ● On October 22, an AIDS prevention seminar was held

Trinidad and Tobago at the “Mayaro Secondary School” for 60 boy and girl students aged 13-15, 2 teachers, and 3 parliamentary Outline: WFWP has carried out AIDS prevention secretariat staff. education since 1996 by using English version of “Living On the same day, the seminar of self-control and in the Era of AIDS”, to which local issues are added. adolescence was held at the “Rio Claro East Depending on the needs of local people, WFWP holds Secondary School” for 400 boy and girl students aged seminars on moral education, abstinence and self- 13-15, 8 teachers and 3 parliamentary secretariat control education and character education. The targets staff. of the education are the upper grades of elementary ● On October 23, an AIDS prevention seminar was held school, junior and senior high school students, various at the “Toco Secondary School” for 25 boy and girl technical schools, parents, educators, and community students aged 14-15 and 3 teachers in the sports people. club. On the same day, the seminar of character education Implementation was held at the “Toco Anglican Primary School” for （2019） 64 boy and girl pupils aged 8-12 and 5 teachers. ● Local assembly and community representatives ● WFWP Japanese volunteers visited UNAIDS Trinidad introduced the schools to give lectures to WFWP. and Tobago office and reported WFWP’s activities to ● On October 18, an AIDS prevention education seminar the office coordinator. was held at the “Malabar Secondary School” for 23 （2020） boy and girl students aged 13-15 and 1 teacher. ● The school was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the seminars could not be held.

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Dominican Republic the volunteers presented them with Japanese stationeries. The teacher in charge of coordinating Outline: AIDS preventive education in the Dominican the moral education classes choked up with tears and Republic has been carried out since January 2011 with expressed her gratitude for the AIDS prevention support from WFWP Japan. Educational materials titled education project. Afterwards, a representative of the “Free Teens” and “Living in the Era of AIDS” are used for pupils expressed their gratitude. the AIDS preventive education seminars and the （2020） “Textbook for Character Education Seminars” and “Amor ● The educational materials were re-edited to include Puro” are used for the family reconstruction seminars. more illustrations. Because corruption of social morality and ethics among ● On December 5, a pure love seminar was held in Villa women and youths is severe in this country, the Linda III Municipal District in Los Alcarrizo City and 30 government has felt the need for policies on mental young people of this area attended. independence education. However, national measures in ● On December 13, a family rebuilding seminar was held this area are not enough, so WFWP received successive at the Christmas party hosted by the Villa Linda requests from teachers and schools that approved of Women’s Association, with 30 participants. the educational content of WFWP. ● The members and supporters of WFWP Japan made 351 Moreover, female politicians and women who have run masks and shipped them to WFWP Dominican Republic. NGO activities for years were moved by the philosophy ● The moral education class at the “Rudy Maria Comas of WFWP, and have cooperated to implement organized Bautista Junior and High School”, which WFWP has educational activities. been continuing, could not be held due to the According to a data of World Data Atlas, rate of HIV- COVID-19 pandemic. However, the principal and the infected persons aged 15 to 49 in Dominican Republic school’s psychological counselor sent a message of was 2.0% in 2001, but decreased to 0.9% in 2016. appreciation to WFWP.

Implementation Number of Implementation Seminars Times （2019） Participants ● WFWP started moral education classes at the 2019 Classes of Moral Education 31 1,172 “Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deño Elementary School”, a public school, for eight months from Pure Love and Abstinence 1 30 January to May and October to December. Reading Education Seminar stories and giving moral education classes were held Family Reconstruction 3 56 for a total of 1,883 pupils from third to sixth graders. Seminar ● WFWP was in charge of the ethics and morality Total 35 1,258 curriculum seminar for all students at the “Rudy Maria Comas Bautista Junior and Senior High School”, a 2020 Pure Love and Abstinence 1 30 public school in Villa Linda, for four months from Education Seminar September to December. Family Reconstruction 1 30 ● On December 10, 2 WFWP Japanese volunteers for Seminar Dominican Republic observed a moral education class Total 2 60 held for about 100 pupils and teachers at the “Francisco Alberto Cuamaño Elementary School”. The pupils looked very serious as they learned about pure love education, Godism, and the ideal family. After the class, an awards ceremony was held for the 30 pupils selected from each class as moral model pupil, and

Impressions of the class at Francisco Alberto Cuamaño Elementary School 【Principal】 “This is a wonderful project. It is utilized for the personal and intellectual development of the students. I Award Ceremony for Model Children at the “Francisco Alberto feel that more than 50% of the pupils have developed a Cuamaño Elementary School” sense of respect and compassion for their teachers and friends.” 【Teacher in charge】 “Although I was assigned to this school as a psychology teacher, I was troubled by the difficulty of the children’s morals, which were so low. That’s when I chanced upon the WFWP’s moral education curriculum, and I was sincerely grateful. I think this moral education class is truly wonderful. It is guiding the children’s minds correctly.” 【6th grade teacher】 “The pupils are practicing what they learned in the moral education class. I’ve seen a positive change in the way they treat classmates.” 【Student】 “If I give a score to a moral education class, I would give it a perfect score of 100. I can see my friends practicing what they have learned. Moral education is Abstinence Education Seminar at the “Rudy Maria Comas Bautista being applied to our school life.” Junior and Senior High School”

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Central and South America Argentina Outline: At the universities and public facilities where WFWP started to hold seminars on education for sound development of youths and emotional education in March 2013, WFWP added AIDS prevention and character education to the contents of the seminar. Since 2016, focusing on communities and schools in Tucuman Province, Buenos Aires City and Buenos Aires Province, WFWP has promoted only AIDS prevention and character education. Spanish version of “Living in the era of AIDS” and At the Diabetes Treatment Foundation in Famlla City, Tucuman Province “Amor puro”, textbook on abstinence and self-control, are used as educational materials. of infected people is in their “early 30s.” 【Data】According to data 2016-2018 from the Ministry Implementation（2019） of Health and Social Development of Argentina, the ● Fourteen seminars were held for local councilors, number of people infected with HIV per 100,000 people is teachers, elementary school pupils, junior high and high “10.6 people” nationwide. Tucuman and Salta Provinces school students, university students, parents, NGO of the Norte Grande Argentino Region, where WFWP is leaders, and etc. in local governments, schools and working, has the second highest number of infected organizations in Tucuman and Salta Provinces, with 1,445 people in the country, with “13.8 people” per 100,000 participants. people. “Nineteen Eight %” of the cause of infection is （2020） unprotected sexual intercourse between the opposite sex ● Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the activity was not and the same sex. The age group with the highest number implemented.

Belize Outline: Due to the highest HIV positive rate from 15 to 49 years old in 2012 in Latin America（according to UNAIDS Global Report 2013） , WFWP felt the need for an early AIDS prevention education and started a program from 2013. The country teaches the importance of using condoms, but this is only a coping method. Therefore, WFWP considered that AIDS prevention education from the viewpoint of character education that makes children think about a valuable way of life is necessary. Teaching that Pupils have to quit school if they get pregnant using balloons A lecturer was invited from the U.S. to hold seminars at elementary and junior high schools using educational Foreign Affairs. In 2012, Mrs. Barbara Elrington attended materials from the “Clean Slate Program”. WFWP USA’s 20th anniversary celebration in Las Vegas, Implementation（2019） and after seeing a presentation on the “Clean Slate ● On October 9, at the ”St. John Vianney Catholic School” Program”, she felt strongly that this was the kind of （elementary school）in Belize City, the capital of Belize, an education that Belize needed. Since she asked WFWP to AIDS prevention education seminar was held for 225 boy and invite a lecturer of this program, WFWP started activities of girl pupils from fourth to sixth graders. It was the third time for AIDS prevention in 2013. Mrs. Elrington seemed to be the sixth graders to attend the class, and the key words of convinced of the effectiveness of the education, saying, education remained firmly in the minds and hearts of the “Since we started this education, the children have changed. pupils. We used to have many pregnancies every year until we ● On October 9, two AIDS prevention education seminars started this program, but they are gradually decreasing.” were held at the “Samuel Haynes Institute of Excellence” in （2020） Belize City. Fifty people attended the seminar for elementary ● School was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and and junior high school students, and 31 people attended the activities were suspended. seminar for parents, teachers, pastors, and youths. ● The Japanese volunteers donated masks, disinfectant, ● The “Samuel Haynes Institute of Excellence” is a vocational liquid soap, etc. to schools that WFWP held AIDS school run by Mr. and Mrs. Elrington, former Minister of prevention education seminars.

Eastern Europe Belarus Outline: At the time of the start of activities in 2011, concerning for the current situation of the rapid spread of HIV infection in Eastern Europe, WFWP suggested the necessity of education both in mental and physical aspects, along with developing a sense of crisis against radioactivity to the schools where WFWP Japanese Volunteers for Belarus set up Health Education Centers（See P11）and various schools in the affected area of Chernobyl disaster, and we have held Seminar for Students of the “Vitebsk State University” seminars on AIDS prevention, abstinence and self-control education. The members of a youth volunteer group “Altera” AIDS prevention education in schools, and have conducted use Russian version of the “Living in the Era of AIDS”, a a total of six sessions targeting 227 students. teaching material which WFWP Japan developed. （2020） Implementation（2019） Activities were suspended due to the COVID-19 The local staff of the “Altera” has been actively promoting pandemic.

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Target 3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all

Medical Assistance/Malaria Prevention Africa

Niger ① Medical Assistance Projects（Mobile Clinics and Hygiene Guidance） Outline: Malaria ranks top among the major causes of death in Niger, where WFWP has continuously donated malaria prevention medicine and provided education on proper dosage since 1997. It has also been supporting free mobile clinics in doctorless villages as well as providing medicine at a very low price through a system of delivering medicine boxes since 2000. Hygiene guidance is provided concurrently because the disease is spread through unsanitary conditions. The medical assistance and education for eradicating malaria in the region with the highest morbidity from malaria have been State of Medical Treatment continuously carried out since 2005. With the evaluation that the creation of sanitary conditions to prevent mosquito breeding is the highest priority for preventing malaria, WFWP started selling ordinary mosquito nets（not coated with insecticide）together with medicine in 2006, giving priority with a discounted price to pregnant women. Since the activities of terrorists have been active after 2013, WFWP Japanese volunteers for Niger cannot enter Niger and only local staff have carried out the activites. Implementation（2019） ● On October 12 and November 16, free medical check-ups and free drug distribution were held for 3,500 villagers and local residents in the village of Namari Zarma, Baleyara District, Tillaberi Region. In two days, 402 people were treated. Doctors and nurses from the “Baleyara District General Health Center” conducted a medical Hygiene Guidance on the Chart examination. The results of medical treatment were malaria and colds in more than half, and diarrhea, conjunctivitis, childcare guidance. and skin diseases were also common. In addition to （2020） medical treatment, we also provided hygiene guidance ● Activities were suspended due to the COVID-19 such as water hygiene and malaria countermeasures for pandemic.

② Support for Management of the “Madeini Tadeta General Health Center（MCSI）”

Roof Repair Completed State of Medical Treatment

Outline: WFWP financially supported the construction of （2020） a General Health Center（CSI: Centre de Sante Integre） ● Since the solar panel installed on the roof of the in Madeini Tadeta Village, Gabi District, Madarounfa building was damaged and had holes, there was Arrondissement, Maradi Department, which targets concern about rain leaks. The Japanese volunteers 4,000 people in surrounding 5 villages including Madeini received a request from MCSI to repair it before the Tadeta and is one of government policies. The rainy season, and repaired the roof. construction completed by the Ministry of Public Health ● Since securing clean water had been the biggest of Niger in 2016. Senior nurses permanently work there. issue, with the support of WFWP International, a water New Developments（2019） vein was secured on the premises of MCSI in October. ● Due to the influence of terrorism, the Japanese A water tower was constructed in November, and a volunteers and a local staff member could not enter water fetching station in February 2021.（Refer to the villages and our activities were suspended. details on P36）

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Asia low, so many people have suffered from tooth decay.

Nepal The people of this area were grateful because they were able to receive not only medical examinations Health check-up project but also treatments such as tooth extraction for free. Outline: Since 1997, WFWP Japan has implemented the visit to doctorless villages to hold free health check-ups ② A Clinic in 28 Yogitol, Bharatpur City and distribute medicine. （formerly Meghauli Village） Since 2013, WFWP Japan has supported the “World Peace Health Service Center” management of the “World Peace Health Service New Developments Center”, a clinic located in 28 Yogitol, Bharatpur City （2019） （former Meghauli Village）of Chitwan District. At this ● The clinic is open four days a week from 10:00 a.m. clinic, Health Assistants handle blood pressure and to 3:00 p.m. injury treatment, prescription of cold medicine and ● Total number of patients in 2019 was 688 people. gastrointestinal medicine, and contraceptive injection Major diseases were colds, high blood pressure, fever, four times a week. abdominal pain, headache, and diarrhea. Visiting guidance from the Nepal Family Planning ● On December 5, the participants of the study tour Association is conducted once a week, pregnant organized by members of WFWP Japan visited the women’s medical examinations are conducted once a clinic and donated bandages and surgical cotton month from the Health Ministry Nepal, and infant which they brought from Japan. vaccinations are conducted once a month. A local （2020） female health volunteer（another staff member of the ● Due to a lockdown caused by spread of COVID-19 clinic）who has been trained by the Ministry of Health of infection, the clinic operated on a reduced scale for Nepal for 6 months visits the homes of pregnant women the four months from April to July, with shorter hours for guidance and care, and deals with childbirth and fewer staff. assistance, baby care, emergency care, and etc. ● On August 7, the clinic instructed the prevention of the COVID-19 infection and distributed soap, masks, ① Internal medicine, dental examination and and alcohol disinfectant to nearby residents（approx. toothbrushing instruction 100 households）at the clinic. Implementation ● The clinic purchased a simple massage machine （2019） requested by residents. It has been helpful in relieving ● On January 19, a total of 126 residents from aged 5 pain in the legs, the lower back and shoulders. to 78 received free medical check-ups at the ”Sajyatoll Youth Center” in Sajyatoll, Pokhara-13, Kaski District, in the eastern part of Pokhara City, with the cooperation of 2 medical and dental doctors, 1 nurse, 1 pharmacist from the “West Region Health Sciences Hospital” and the “Sajyatoll Youth Center”, and 2 WFWP members. Major diseases were gastrointestinal problems, cold symptoms, high blood pressure, tooth decay, abnormalities of the temporomandibular joint, and periodontal disease. Since there were no major hospitals nearby, the elderly had been reluctant to go to the hospital to treat tooth decay. However, when they heard that there was a possibility of cancer, they became aware of the need for proper treatment. ● On December 5, the health assistants of the “World Peace Health Service Center” visited the “Shree Basic School” located Sisabas district, Narayani, Chitwan District, approx. six hours drive from the capital Kathmandu and held a guidance of tooth-blushing and Free Dental Examination hand-washing for a total of 285 pupils from kindergarten to eighth graders. They also donated toothbrushes, toothpastes, soaps, towels, nail clippers, and sanitary products. The principal of the school commented, “We will further work on improving the health and sanitation environment of the school for the children’s health promotion. Thank you very much.” A letter of appreciation was presented to WFWP. （2020） ● On February 29, with cooperation of 2 dentists, 2 dental assistants, and a pharmacist of the “Lali Gurans Dental Care Center”, WFWP provided dental hygiene guidance, tooth extractions, and treatment of swollen gums and tooth decay at the “Gaunpalika-4 Ghantachuli Public School” in Devghat Rural Municipality, Tanahun District, a mountainous area. Eighty five men and women from aged 3 to 79 were examined. Free medical supplies, toothbrushes and toothpaste were also distributed. There is no dental Japanese study tour participants donated bandages and cotton clinic in this area and awareness of dental hygiene is wool to the “World Peace Health Service Center”

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Target 3.9 By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination

Medical Assistance for Radiation Contamination from Chernobyl Accident Eastern Europe

Belarus Medical Assistance in Affected Areas of the Chernobyl Accident Outline: More than 35 years have passed since Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident happened. However, the accident have had a bad influence on health of Belarusians exposed to radiation. Especially, it is serious for children lack of physical development due to eating food exposed to radiation. WFWP has supported the victims since WFWP started to provide stuffs and medical instruments, requested by the Gomel Regional Children’s Hospital in Gomel region. Donation of Medical Supplies Since 2006, WFWP has financially supported the sympathized with their activities for helping as many as program for victims, which are run by local youth children, and started to distribute VITAPECT in 2008. volunteer group “ALTERA” WFWP established a Health Education Center in a WFWP Japanese volunteers visited the Institute of school in which primary and secondary education are Radiation Safety “BELRAD” in 2007. They regularly have combined in the area close to contaminated areas in measured radiation level inside the body of children who cooperation with BELRAD in 2010. WFWP makes live near contaminated area and have developed health children aware of how dangerous radiation by measuring food “VITAPECT”, which is effective for moving down the the amount of radiation inside food taken, and consider radiation level. The medicine have been taken by how to prevent from the threat. children with dangerous radiation level. WFWP Japan

New Developments 2019 2020 Donation of medical ・10 intestinal plasma display panels No support due to the materials to the Gomel ・6 biopsy forceps COVID-19 pandemic Regional Children’s ・50 infusion filters Hospital ・Continuous epidural anesthesia set 45 sets Financial aid for 30 children 25 children administering VITAPECT Health Education Center On September 9, a WFWP volunteer visited the “Chechrsk 2nd School” in Gomel WFWP supported Region with WFWP Japanese Youth Volunteer Team. Children of the research expenses in order for club reported the results of measurement. The volunteers could hear about the “Chechrsk 2nd very effective situation of children that they found out the foods with higher School” in Gomel radiation values than the government announced in the neighboring area, which Region to continue the was a clue to know the dangerous situation, and that they were voluntarily activities. conducting awareness activities.

Ukraine Medical Assistance for Children Affected by Radiation in the Chernobyl Accident Outline: Since November 1999, WFWP has supported many children’s hospitals and orphanages, located in and around Kiev City by providing them with medical equipment, medicine and donations. Since 2010, WFWP has donated medical expenses according to the requests from the “Chernobyl Soyuz,” an NGO organized to support Chernobyl victims. New Developments

（2019）Alina Kravchuk（Age 11）Second generation of Chernobyl accident victim Disease name：Extreme hyperopia / astigmatism. Her right eye is squint and almost invisible Arina’s family members live in Spyri Village, Ivankovsky Province, in Chernobyl region. Her parents are unable to raise her and her grandmother is raising her. Her strabismic right eye was getting worse, but her financial burden was so great that she couldn’t get a detailed examination or surgery. WFWP supported the cost of detailed examination and surgery.

（2020）Danil Voronin（Age 13）Second generation of Chernobyl accident victim Disease name：Cerebral palsy Danil’s grandmother was working at the Chernobyl power plant at the time of the nuclear accident. After the accident, she evacuated from the city of Prichachi with Danil’s father, but after a while his grandmother had thyroid cancer and had surgery. Danil was born in 2007 and diagnosed with cerebral palsy. He underwent six surgeries and rehabilitation, and from being unable to walk at first, he was able to walk with a cane. In the summer of 2019, with the support of WFWP youth volunteers Ukrane Team members who visited Ukraine in 2018, he was rehabilitated again in Sanatorium, and now he can walk slowly and slowly without a wand. WFWP supported the cost of surgery and post-surgical rehabilitation to relieve spastic paralysis of his leg in January 2021.

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Goal 4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Target 4.1 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes Target 4.2 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education

Support for Primary Education: Construction and Management of Elementary Schools Africa Since 2008, the foster parents program has been

Guinea Bissau supporting children from low-income families. Many of graduates of this school proceed to the Sunac Junior High School.

New Developments（2019） ● A bench was installed in the school yard. ● Bank transfer of tuition fees has increased the tuition payment rate and improved cash management. ● The overall promotion rate was 85%. ● Fifty two sixth graders graduated. ● Number of Pupils（September 2018-June 2019） Boys Girls Total 122 163 285 （2020） ● The school has been closed since March due to the spread of the COVID-19 infection. As a result, the school year, which normally ends in June, ended in August. Current School Building ● During the closure of the school, the environment was improved by painting the fences and walls of the school. School Name（English） Sunac Elementary School ● The overall promotion rate was 84%. ● Fifty two sixth graders graduated. School Name（Portuguese）Escola do Ensino Basico Sunac The education continuance rate was 90% ● Number of Pupils（September 2019-August 2020） Completion of School Building February 2003 Boys Girls Total Founded October 2003 118 165 283

Curriculum The school offers general education designated by the government for 1st to 6th grade pupils. National language （Portuguese）, mathematics, science, society, physical education, arts and crafts are offered. English and French language classes begin from 3rd grade. Pupils from 1st to 4th grade study in the morning, and 5th to 6th grade, in the afternoon. From 5th grade, teachers of each subject give classes. The headmaster offers moral education on Saturdays. During summer vacation, the moral education course titled “Abstinence & Self-control Special Summer Course” is held for the upper grade pupils. The school starts in September and ends in June.

Number of Graduates 587 A Scene of a Class Outline: In Guinea Bissau, where coups and civil wars frequently occur, about 60% of population live on a small income of less than $1.90 per day, the international poverty line. Basic infrastructure including schools are not maintained adequately, and shortage of schools is a serious social problem. In response to local requests, WFWP built this elementary school in the Ruanda District of Bissau City, the capital. Although the social status of women is low in this country, one feature of this school is the high enrollment rate of girls. The parents appreciate the fact that while many students who go to public schools tend to miss classes because of teachers’ strikes, this school has been able to offer classes regularly throughout the year without any strikes. Japanese Volunteer Presented a Ballpoint Pen

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Current School Building Japanese Volunteer Donated Materials from Japan

Africa the school is making effort to add more buildings, equip the

Equatorial Guinea school with better facilities and improve the surrounding environment. The school was named in memory of a Japanese School Name（English） volunteer for Equatorial Guinea, Ms. Motoko Shiroma, who ① Motoko Shiroma School（Kindergarten and lost her life during her mission there. Every year a memorial Elementary and Junior-High School） ceremony is held on February 9, her death anniversary. School Name（Spanish） La Escuela Motoko Shiroma New Developments（2019） Completion of School Building March 1999 ● The stairs and doors of the entrance were repaired. Founded October 2001 ● In February, when a Japanese volunteer for Equatorial Curriculum Guinea visited the school, she donated stationeries which The school follows the curriculum designated by the were supported from District Federations of WFWP Japan. government for kindergarten（2 years）to ninth grade, and ● Academic level was good. gives all classes in the morning. ● All the 23 sixth graders graduated and all went on to The school year starts in September and ends in June. junior high school. Number of Graduates 369 ● The 9th grade class was opened. ● Number of Pupils（September 2019-June 2020） Outline: Motoko School, a vocational training school for Boys Girls Total independence of women, was originally opened in the 136 156 292 capital Malabo in 1999. With requests from parents of neighboring areas and the Ministry of Education, Motoko （2020） Shiroma Kindergarten and Elementary School was built ● Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the whole country was within the premises of the training school in 2001. Since on lockdown, so the school was closed from March to 2002, only the kindergarten and elementary school have the end of May and reopened in June. The school year, been in operation. In 2016, the school opened a junior high which normally ends in June, ended in July. school class and changed its name into “Motoko Shiroma ● The new school year started on October 1st. To avoid the crowds, School”. each grade had separate classes in the morning and afternoon. With approval from the government, teachers are staffed ● Academic level was good. by the Ministry of Education as well as members of WFWP ● All the 25 sixth graders graduated and all went on to Equatorial Guinea with teaching qualifications. The principal junior high school. is also a WFWP member. ● Number of Pupils（September 2019-July 2020） WFWP Equatorial Guinea hosts bazaars with goods Boys Girls Total donated from Japan and gives the proceeds to the school 143 145 288 to help cover administrative costs. Because of the annual increase in the number of students,

School Name（English） WFWP Japan will be supporting the construction of school ② Pilar Momo Public School（Kindergarten, Elementary School, and Junior-High School） buildings, maintenance of facilities and attendance of children in poor families. School Name（Spanish） Colegio Publico Pilar Momo Beginning of Construction of School Building July 2004 New Developments（2020） Completion of School Building Still under construction Interior finishing and flooring of 2 classrooms and classrooms for Founded September 2011 junior high school classes on the second floor were implemented.

Outline: School construction began in response to a request from the Equatorial Guinea chapter of WFWP for a school which is larger than the Motoko Shiroma School. WFWP Equatorial Guinea did everything from site selection to building design and supervising engineers and construction in cooperation with the Ministry of Labor. The school was named after the first female teacher in Equatorial Guinea. The area surrounding the school was a residential zone in the capital Malabo, but had no school. The school was opened in September 2011 with the earnest request of the neighbors and the Ministry of Education. Current School Building

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Support for Primary Education: Elementary School Management / Support for Elementary School Management

Japanese Volunteer Donated Football Uniform Sets at a Commemoration Ceremony Japanese Volunteer Explaining the Rule of Card Game

Africa Oceania Liberia Solomon Islands Support for Management of Day-care, Kindergarten Support for Management of Kindergarten “New and Elementary School, “Peace Hana School” Hope Academy”

Outline: The school was approved by the government in Outline: In February 2011, the kindergarten opened in Honiara, September 1998, and opened in a poor area of the capital the capital city, with support from WFWP Australia. Then, WFWP Monrovia. It offers programs for children from aged 3 to 6, Japan’s volunteers started to support its operation in 2013. including basic reading and writing skills, singing, sports, playing, The kindergarten is for children aged 3 to 5. In addition to the Japanese language and Bible study. kindergarten curriculum decided by the government, the school has The elementary school course opened in 2002. In addition to the made improvements by referencing foreign curricula（Japan, USA, basic academic curriculum which follows the guidelines of the and South Korea）. Ministry of Education, it also offers Japanese language, AIDS It adopts the 4-term system, one term running for 10 weeks. prevention education, family education, and moral education. Hygiene Tuition is about 7,500 Japanese yen for a term, which is lower education to prevent infectious diseases is provided to all pupils. among private kindergartens there. Funding for events was The school starts in September and ends in July. collected by mothers’ fund-raising activities. They focus on moral Through school events, the school holds exchanges with the education including character education, and provide quality PTA and local community. education. Parental guardians are enthusiastic for education, so the school New Developments（2019） promotes study groups for parents and storytelling for the children. ● Fifty chairs with desks were made and blackboard, infant mattress, and door locks were renewed. School walls and New Developments（2019） fences were repaired and school buildings were painted. ● The second grade class was opened. ● The pupils won second place in the team competition and ● Teaching materials such as flash cards and alphabet first place in the individual competition in the local school cards were made and trial lessons in each spelling contest（a competition to see who can spell English kindergarten class were held. words correctly）. It earned high praise from local schools. ● WFWP Australia donated a large number of high quality ● A Japanese volunteer for Liberia donated various materials which picture books to the school, and through the annual were brought from Japan, including sports equipment, toys, hygiene storytelling campaign, teachers began to actively read products, and toothbrushes. Using age-appropriate sized picture books to their pupils. toothbrushes, a volunteer provided tooth brushing instruction by ● A Japanese volunteer for Solomon Islands taught the singing a tooth brushing song with the staff of WFWP Liberia. graduates about the importance of art and worked ● On April 10, a ceremony was held at the school to with youth volunteers to create picture books. commemorate the 27th anniversary of WFWP and the 25th ● A library corner was set up in each elementary school anniversary of overseas volunteer dispatch. A Japanese class. Pupil’s interest in reading was increased. volunteer explained to the parents and pupils about WFWP （2020） Liberia and the establishment of the school, and presented ● The third grade class was opened and the design of the pupils with soccer uniform sets and soccer balls. the school uniform was changed. （2020） ● A curriculum for moral education for elementary ● School was closed from mid-March to the end of April due school pupils was completed. to the COVID-19 pandemic. In May, take-home education ● Parents were instructed on the nutrition of their was requested from the government to prevent infection, children and were prohibited from bringing snacks or and the school distributed handouts to all the pupils. Since purchasing beverages, and were asked to bring education style has been changed to study and submit nutritionally balanced lunch and canteens. homework at home, WFWP purchased a printer. ● Since the number of textbooks provided by the ● From August, only 6 graders attended school and government is not enough for the number of pupils, regular classes were started. 150 textbooks for first to third graders and 200 math ● The school purchased and installed fans, generators, and water workbooks for first to fifth graders were reproduced tanks for hand washing as infection prevention measures. and bound in Japan. Number of Pupils Nursery Kindergarten Elementary Total Number 3 years 4 years 5 years 1st 2nd 3rd Total of Pupils old old old grade grade grade 2019 36 9 67 112 2019 35 34 35 32 32 0 168 2020 31 15 58 104 2020 30 32 34 35 28 25 184

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Headmaster（at extreme right）, Teachers, and Staff of the School Pupils

Asia Caribbean Bangladesh Jamaica Support for Management of the “Jaigeer Partial Support for Management of the“St. Elementary School” Francis Basic School”, a preschool

Outline: The “Jaigeer Elementary School” was built in Jaigeer Outline: WFWP Japan started support in September 2002. Village of Singair Upazila, Manikganj District, Division of Dhaka The “St. Francis Basic School” is located in a small Christian by a local NGO, and since 1994, WFWP Japan has been church building in an unsafe and impoverished area of the supporting the school by providing chalkboards, desks, chairs, capital city of Kingston. This preschool has been providing textbooks, etc. When the school first opened, its building was a early childhoodl education for children aged 3 to 5. In bamboo building with a zinc roof and the students sat on addition to teaching math, English, music, and other directly on the dirt. In 1997, youth volunteers dispatched by subjects according to the government curriculum, the WFWP Japan helped rebuild the school into a brick building. preschool also teaches social knowledge such as the There are a total of 7 classes from preschool to 5th grade. names of famous historical figures and prime ministers. Classes for lower grades are held in the morning and upper Teachers are making their own equipment and materials grades in the afternoon. to help students learn. The support of WFWP has made the In Bangladesh, education up to the 5th grade is compulsory operation possible and is greatly appreciated. and the government provides free education, but since children are a workforce in farming, the dropout rate of New Developments elementary schools is high. To solve this problem, the school （2019） started a microfinance program for mothers in 2007 under ● Since the number of children has increased, the roof the condition that they must have their children attend has been extended to provide more space. The kitchen school. where school lunches are prepared was repaired. Eighty-five percent of the children of this village attend this ● The teachers sold foods and held concerts at events school. Though it is a private school, the pupils’ academic with parents to generate operating funds. level is very high from using textbooks of public schools and ● The preschool invited outside instructors to give effective teaching methods. On the standardized tests for 5th computer classes. graders held every year by the region’s Board of Education, ● WFWP supported approx. 8% of the overall operating costs. the school’s overall scores keep the best in recent years. The children of this village had never moved on to college （2020） before the school was built, but today there are graduates of ● Many days of school were closed due to the spread this school who have entered elite universities such as the of the COVID-19 infection. University of Dhaka. ● During closure, the preschool prepared home study materials WFWP Bangladesh has taken over the management ever for children and delivered lunch to those who needed it. since the local NGO has withdrawn, but due to lack of funds, ● WFWP supported approx. 15% of the overall operating WFWP Japan has resumed support from 2015. costs. ● With the support of WFWP, the preschool was able to New Developments prepare equipment that meets the requirements of （2019） guidance of the Ministry of Health of Jamaica to ● The Sports Day was held on February 16. As there is not reopen the school. much entertainment in the village, the annual elementary Number of Pupils Boys Girls Total school sports day has become a major event for the village. ● The regional “Primary School Certificate” examination 2019 68 67 135 was held in November, and 48 pupils took the exam and 2020 46 56 102 all passed. Ten pupils got an A+ grade, 20 got an A, 10 got an A－, and 8 got a B. One of the girl pupils got the highest score of 592 out of 600 points. The school was ranked first out of 27 schools in the region. Four pupils from the school were awarded special government scholarships for outstanding academic achievement.

（2020） ● School was closed due to preventive measures against the COVID-19. Number of Pupils Boys Girls Total 2019 161 166 327 A Scene of a Class of the “Jaigeer Elementary School”

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Support for Secondary Education: Construction and Management of Junior and Senior High Schools

Temperature Check at the School Gate A High School Class during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Africa Tokushima” in Japan under the support of WFWP Japan. A

Mozambique Japanese NGO which visited to inspect the damage caused by the cyclone delivered his supplies to the school. The supplies were distributed to the teachers and the staff of the school. School Name（English） Sun of Mozambique Secondary （Junior and Senior High）School ● One of the high school students participated in the national level of the Mathematical Olympiad and 2 students participated in the state competition. School Name（Portuguese） Escola Secundária Sol de Moçambique ● Mrs. Akiko Hozan, a WFWP Japanese volunteer for Founded March 1995 Mozambique, received the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Completion of New School Building January 1999 Commendation for FY 2019, and the award ceremony was held Curriculum at the official residence of the Japanese Ambassador to The school curriculum was implemented in accordance with the Mozambique on September 6. Thirty graduates from this school general education curriculum designated by the government. There were invited to celebrate the award.（See P20） are three years of junior-high（grades 8-10）and two years of senior ● Two girl students won and placed in the French language high school（grades 11-12）. Students in junior-high school study in competition for high school students and received an the morning, while high school students study in the afternoon. award from the Ministry of Education of Mozambique. Number of Graduates 12,444 ● The floors of 3 classrooms were tiled with support from WFWP, USA. ● School maintenance conducted： Painted the walls of the Outline: Though Mozambique is on the road to recovery from the Civil student restrooms, installed new women’s urinals, renovated War ended in 1992, shortage of junior and senior high schools nationwide is the parking lot and enclosure fence, and installed a material still a serious problem. warehouse and a fence to protect against the westering sun. WFWP opened junior-high school in 1995, and senior-high school in 2001, ● The promotion rate for 8th graders（junior high）and in Beira, the second largest city of Mozambique. It is renowned for the quality 11th graders（senior high）was 100%. of its teachers, all of them being university graduates, and the high （2020） percentage of students who pass the graduation exams, as well as the large ● Taking into account that many of the residents were affected by the number of graduates who enroll in universities. It has earned its reputation huge cyclone the previous year, the enrollment fee was lowered. as a school with quality education at a low price, and receives many ● Four high-achieving students from the previous year applicants every year. The Ministry of Education of Mozambique named this were exempted from paying monthly tuition. school the highest ranking private school in October 2008, in terms of its ● To prevent the spread of COVID-19 infection, the school stable management and excellent educational results throughout the years, was closed from March 23 to October 8. Students worked and it was given the same authority and qualification as public schools. on assignments given by teachers as home study. The library holds more than 9,200 books, including textbooks, reference ● While many schools do not pay teachers’ salaries during books and dictionaries, and is helping the students develop their academic temporary closure of school, this school paid teachers’ competency. salaries even during temporary closure of school. In order to provide educational opportunities for students from low-income ● The school reopened on October 9. To prevent infection, families, the school’s tuition is set at the lowest level among all private students were required to take their temperature at the schools in Mozambique. school gate and wash their hands thoroughly, disinfect the Since the opening of the high school, the number of students who aim at school facilities, wear masks, and divide the class into two university has increased and the school has produced many matriculates to avoid the crowds. The classes of 12th graders were every year. In addition, many graduates have been selected as government- resumed first, followed by the other grades. On November sponsored students to study abroad, including a university in Malaysia. 1, the classes of all grades were resumed. The students were happy to have classes after a long absence. New Developments ● Due to the prolonged closure of school caused by the COVID-19, the （2019） end-of-year exams, which are usually held in November, were held in ● Two high-achieving students from the previous year January 2021, and the graduation exams were held in February 2021. were exempted from paying monthly tuition. ● School maintenance conducted：Installed tin roofs on the ● In March, a huge cyclone hit Beira City and the surrounding benches for shade and tiled the floors of two classrooms. areas, and caused unprecedented damage. The school also Number of Students Junior Senior suffered damage from the cyclone, including a damaged Total （End of the year） High High roof and fallen trees, however, the school was able to 2019 294 254 548 resume classes quickly through desperate recovery efforts. ● The school received relief supplies from a former Mozambican 2020 295 235 530 international student who had studied at the “University of

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Foster Children and their Parents

Africa Kenya Tree planting by Japanese volunteers at the School to School Name Handow Secondary（Junior Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Opening of the School and Senior High）School

Completion of School Building Still under construction since October 1997 providing school lunches so that students can concentrate on studying. Founded May 1998 The school’s science laboratory has relatively good facilities and is popular among parents and students in the Curriculum area around the school. There are four years of study at the junior and senior high school Club activities are active including rugby and football. level. Required subjects（mathematics, English, Swahili, chemistry, biology, and religious education）, elective subjects（physics, New Developments（2019） agriculture, business research, history and geography）, home economics, and philosophy are offered. ● In recognition of the school’s performance and As an extracurricular class, AIDS prevention education is also offered. facilities, it was upgraded from a “sub-county level” school to a “county level” school. Outline: The junior high school was first being built by the ※ Public secondary schools in Kenya are divided into Marakusi Village of former Lugari District of Kakamega national level, county level and sub-county level. County but was halted due to insufficient funds. WFWP took ● Two graduates became teachers at this school, Alma over the school and opened it in 1998. Matar. In 2003, the school was accredited as a public school by Number of the Kenyan government and half of the teachers today are Boys Girls Total Students assigned by the local Board of Education of the Ministry of Education. 2019 319 292 611 The number of students enrolled increased since 2008 when the government implemented tuition-free policies for secondary schools. The school still needs WFWP support （2020） however, for other educational costs continue to burden ● The school was closed due to the COVID-19 families, and support from the government tends to be prevention counter measure. delayed. ● Foundation work was started on the new two-story The PTA is doing its own fundraising to expand and school building. WFWP, USA supported the maintain facilities for the school. WFWP helps where they construction costs. are lacking and contributes to the stable operation of the school. ２ Graduates who Became Teachers of Their Alma Matar The foster parents program also supports needy children to continue their education. Since the school is located in a poor area where people do not receive adequate nutrition, the school has been

Mr. Benard’s Subject in Charge is Ms. Stella’s Subjects in Charge Mathematics are Business and Geography

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Foster Parents Programs

ASIA Cambodia 【Target】Students of the “Wat An Junior High School” and from elementary school pupils to high school students who are orphans or from single-parent or needy family in Takéo Province 【Period/Amount】Foster Parents support ￥18,000 per year. Out of this amount, $100 is allotted to support for Foster Children and the remainder is allotted to administrative expenses. Foster Children receive $100 in 3 times in a year. 【Month and Year Program Started】1996 【Number of Foster Children】（2019） 69 （2020） 78 【Number of Foster Parents】（2019）62 （2020） 74

India 【Target】Elementary school pupils and junior high and high school students in low-income families 【Period/Amount】 ￥15,000/year as tuition for private school students, or as expenses such as cram school fees, transportation fees, stationeries, uniforms, and etc. for public school students 【Month and Year Program Started】2014 【Number of Foster Children】（2019） 5 （2020）8 【Number of Foster Parents】（2019）5 （2020） 9

Laos 【Target】Pupils of Sengsoury Elementary School in Hadsayfong District of Vientiane Prefecture 【Period/Amount】￥12,000/year for 1 year for a part of tuition 【Month and Year Program Started】March 2009 【Number of Foster Children】（2019）15 （2020） 35 【Number of Foster Parents】（2019）15 （2020） 34

Myanmar 【Target】Elementary school pupils, junior and senior high school students, and University students 【Period/Amount】 ￥15,000/year including ￥3,000/year as administrative expenses until graduation from university. ￥63,000/year including ￥3,000/year as administrative expenses for medical and dental students and its payment is divided into 12 times. 【Month and Year Program Started】November 1997 【Number of Foster Children】（2019） 302 （2020） 14 【Number of Foster Parents】（2019）290 （2020） 7+2 groups

Nepal 【Target】Pupils and students of the “Ekta Academy” who are willing to learn but are financially in need 【Period/Amount】￥12,000/year for 1 year including tuitions and educational materials 【Month and Year Program Started】January 2011 【Number of Foster Children】（2019） 79 （2020） 61 【Number of Foster Parents】（2019）79 （2020） 76

Thailand 【Target】Junior high school students of the “Ban Huaysing School” and high school students who graduated from this school in Mae Hong Son Province 【Period/Amount】For junior high school students, ￥15,000/year including ￥3,000/year as administrative expenses for 3 years for Junior high school students. Fees of dormitory, uniform, stationaries, transportation for homecoming, and haircut are supported. For high school students, ￥27,000/year including ￥3,000/year as administrative expenses for 3 years. Tuition and transportation fees are supported. 【Month and Year Program Started】（For Junior high school students） 2000 （For High school students）2020 【Number of Foster Children】（2019）76 （2020）97 【Number of Foster Parents】（2019）70 （2020）94

Eswatini 【Target】From elementary school pupils to high school students who are orphans and children from needy family 【Period/Amount】￥15,000/year for minimum 2 years 【Month and Year Program Started】January 1997 【Number of Foster Children】（2019） 46 （2020） 48 【Number of Foster Parents】（2019）46 （2020） 48

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Equatorial Guinea 【Target】From 5 to 15 years old pupils and students（kindergarten to 9th grade）of the “Motoko Shiroma School”, the “Pilar Momo School” and other schools 【Period/Amount】￥10,000/year including tuition and school supplies 【Month and Year Program Started】October 2002 【Number of Foster Children】（2019） 100 （2020）117 【Number of Foster Parents】（2019）90 （2020） 103

Ethiopia 【Target】Pupils who enrolled in the “One Hope Garden（elementary school）” 【Period/Amount】￥3,000/month（￥36,000/year）up to Grade 12 【Month and Year Program Started】February 2003 【Number of Foster Children】（2019） 22 （2020） 21 【Number of Foster Parents】（2019）17 （2020） 16

Ghana 【Target】Elementary, junior and senior high school students of Amasaman in Ga West Municipal District, Accra City, and the suburbs of Accra City 【Period/Amount】￥15,000/year including tuition, uniform, shoes and stationary from elementary to high school. Renewable yearly. In the case of university students, several foster parents support one foster child depending on tuition. 【Month and Year Program Started】January 2002 【Number of Foster Children】（2019） 59 （2020） 61 【Number of Foster Parents】（2019）64 （2020） 64

Guinea Bissau 【Target】Pupils of the “Sunac Elementary School” and students of the “Sunac Junior High School” 【Period/Amount】￥1,000/month or ￥3,000/month 【Month and Year Program Started】January 2001 【Number of Foster Children】（2019） 32 （2020） 22 【Number of Foster Parents】（2019）32 （2020） 22

Kenya 【Target】Students of the “Handow Secondary School” 【Period/Amount】￥15,000/year and renewable yearly（on request） 【Month and Year Program Started】May 1998 【Number of Foster Children】（2019）40 （2020） 0（Due to the COVID-19 pandemic） 【Number of Foster Parents】（2019）21 （2020） 0（Due to the COVID-19 pandemic）

Malawi 【Target】Outstanding but disadvantaged university students 【Period/Amount】￥62,500/year for tuition 【Month and Year Program Started】March 2016 【Number of Foster Children】（2019） 9 （2020）9 【Number of Foster Parents】（2019）10 （2020）10

Mauritania 【Target】Orphans and children from needy family aged 5-15 【Period/Amount】￥3,000/month or ￥1,000/month up to graduation from junior high school. 80% uses for child support. 【Month and Year Program Started】October 1997 【Number of Foster Children】（2019） 14 （2020） 14 【Number of Foster Parents】（2019）7 （2020） 7

Rwanda 【Target】Orphans and disadvantaged students of the “New Hope Technical Institute” 【Period/Amount】￥30,000/year 【Month and Year Program Started】January 1999 【Number of Foster Children】（2019） 46 （2020） 62 【Number of Foster Parents】（2019）56 （2020） 65

Other Countries：Honduras, Sri Lanka

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Scholarship Programs Month and Recipients year Country Target Period/Amount program 2019 2020 started ASIA

￥12.000/year for 2 years for high 0 Outstanding but disadvantaged （Due to school students November Sri Lanka students of high school, university, 32 the ￥22,000/year until graduation for 2002 and vocational college COVID19 university students pandemic） AFRICA ￥7,000/year for junior high school Outstanding but disadvantaged students September Gambia students of junior and senior high 80 58 ￥15,000/year for senior high school 1995 school students MIDDLE EAST ￥90,000-200,000/year depending November Jordan University Students on the financial situation of the family 12 11 2001 of recipients Afghan refugee women who live August Afghanistan in India and attend vocational ￥100,000/year 10 10 2019 training schools

Other countries： Ethiopia, Honduras, Mauritania, and Zambia

Gender Ratio of Pupils and Students in the School WFWP is Promoting Girls’ WFWP Supporting (2019-2020) Education

Mozambique “Sun of Mozambique Junior and Senior High School” 44% 56% Looking at the boy-girl ratio of pupils and students in Kenya “Handow Junior and Senior High School” 52% 47% schools supported by WFWP, Guinea Bissau “Sunac Elementary School” 42% 58% girls account for around 50%. Equatorial Guinea “Motoko Shiroma School” 48% 52% We are promoting gender equality. Liberia “Peace Hana School” 51% 49% In developing countries, Jamaica “Saint Francis School” 48% 52% custom which keeps girls out of education is still deep- 49% 51% Bangladesh “Jaigeer Elementary School” rooted. Solomon Islands “New Hope Academy” 48% 52%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Boys Girls

Mrs. Akiko Hozan, WFWP Japanese Volunteer for Mozambique, Awarded the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation Mrs. Akiko Hozan who has been working locally for 25 years as Administrator of the “Sun of Mozambique Junior and Senior High School”（see page 16）was awarded the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation for FY 2019. On September 6, 2019, the award ceremony was held at the official residence of the Japanese Ambassador to Mozambique. Thirty graduates of this school were invited to celebrate the award together.

Certificate of commendation Awarded by the Ambassador of Japan to Mozambique With invited graduates

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Target 4.3 By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university Target 4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship

Construction and Management of Vocational Training School

Under Construction of the “New Hope Professional Training Center” A PC Class

Africa New Developments

Rwanda （2019） ● From March 11 to June 11, a short-term dressmaking workshop was held with the support of World Bank’s School Name New Hope Technical Institute Skills Development Fund. Fifty students participated and all of them graduated on August 2. Founded February 1996 ● On May 17, the Rwanda Police held a campaign for the prevention of drug abuse at the school. Completion of the School Building July 1998 ● In July, the construction of the “New Hope Professional Training Center” was started on the Opening of the Newly Built School August 1998 school site. ● From October 19 to 26, the Rwanda Study Tour was Curriculum Technical course comprise dressmaking, hairdresser/ held and 21 members of WFWP Japan participated. beautician, and culinary art. Required subjects of all ● The graduation ceremony which was planned to be courses are English, French, Ethics, and Business held in February 2020 was postponed, but 84 administration. students graduated. The period of learning is one year and internship program ● The employment rate for graduates was 48%（as of is included prior to graduation for 3 months. May 2021）. ● Number of Students Total Number of Graduates 2,501 Hairdresser/ Culinary Dressmaking Total Beautician Art Outline: The school was established in the capital, 38 26 29 93 Kigali, in 1996 in order to support the rebuilding process subsequent to the end of the civil war. Its objective is to （2020） teach women with vocational skills so that they can be ● The “New Hope Professional Training Center” was still financially independent. under construction. It has also accepted several male students since ● Due to the lock-down from the COVID-19, the school 2000. had been closed from March 16 to November 1. It From 2007 to 2013, the World Bank-sponsored was reopened on November 2. project “Rwanda Demobilization and Reintegration ● In September, a hand-wash station was installed near the Project” had been operated at this school. school gate by the instruction of the Ministry of Education Since 1999, a foster parents program has supported and the Workforce Development Authority of Rwanda. students who have difficulties to continue schooling. ● From November to December, the online communication Some graduates have succeeded as entrepreneurs, events between foster children in Rwanda and foster utilizing skills and expertise they learned at this school. parents in Japan were held by 5 district federations of The school holds a parents’ association every year WFWP Japan which have supported Rwanda. and asks parents and guardians to understand school ● Due to the school closure during the COVID-19 management and promotion of employment. pandemic, academic year of the schools has been Since 2015, Japanese youth members have been changed and the class of 2020 was planned to teaching massage and nails for beautician course. graduate in July 2021. In 2019, the construction of a four-story the “New ● Number of Students（as of May 2021） Hope Professional Training Center” was started in order Hairdresser/ Culinary for graduates to achieve economic independence by Dressmaking Total Beautician Art utilizing the skills they have acquired and to further 29 36 37 102 improve the quality of life.

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Management of Vocational Training Schools

Welcomed Japanese Participants of Study Tour at JAMOO2 Japanese Volunteer Observed a Class of JAMOO1

Africa are reconsidering the curriculum content while

Senegal teaching.

Social Self-Support Assistance Center “JAMOO” （2020） JAMOO1 Outline: A school was opened in the capital city, Dakar, ● Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the school was in 1995 to help women become independent. It offers six closed from March to October. hours of classes a day and four-year courses in JAMOO2 dressmaking, lace-making, embroidery, beads ● Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the school was embroidery, and home economics. A certificate closed from March to September. accredited by the government is presented to students ● By checking out on the students while the school was who passed the graduation examination. An closed and communicating with the teachers, not a advertisement is made to the community at the end of single person was infected and the school reopened each academic year with an Exhibition & Sale at the safely in October. Completion Ceremony. Biennial graduation ceremonies ● A technology partnership was formed with a manager are held and local dignitaries and politicians are invited. who owns 3 professional schools and the school Through the parents’ association, the school is making invited him as a lecturer to improve the technical efforts to take establish roots in the surrounding quality. community. ● In March, the school made 500 masks and distributed Since 2001, the “Salon de Couture JAMOO”, a training them to people in the surrounding community. They shop for graduates, has offered one-year or two-years were greatly appreciated by Mayor of the province. on-the-job training course. Since there was no water supply in the school, the In December 2017, with the financial support of the province provided a large water tank for the school. Japanese government, the construction of the second ● On March 8, a communication event commemorating school was completed in Tivaouane Peulh, the suburb of “International Women’s Day” was held with the women Dakar City and opened in January 2019. of the surrounding are at the first floor hall.

New Developments Number of Students JAMOO1 Training Shop （2019） Students 15 Trainees 2 ● From October 15 to 21, a study tour was held and 5 December 2018- August 2019 Became members of WFWP Japan participated. Graduates 4 2 Independent ・Observation of JAMOO1 and JAMOO2 December 2019- Students 8 Trainees 2 ・Participation in the sisterhood ceremony between February 2020 Senegal and Japan Closed March- ・Visit to some shops run by the graduates October, Became Graduates 0 2 ・A member who is an esthetician gave a massage to Reopened and Independent the wife of Mayor of Gorée Completed November ・Sightseeing: Lac Rose, African Renaissance Monument, and Gorée Island Number of Students JAMOO2 JAMOO1 December 2018- 20 ● The black boards were repainted, the office shelves August 2019 were repaired, and tables for sewing machines and December 2019- spare parts for the sewing machines were purchased. February 2020 JAMOO2 Closed March- 50 ● At one point there were 30 students, but a few September, Reopened October students had to quit due to circumstances at home. Completed November ● The students who are able to attend are all eager and hardworking, so they are quick to learn. The teachers

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Graduation Ceremony Class of Dressmaking

Asia Asia Nepal Myanmar Vocational Training School “Creative Training Vocational Training School “Sakura Vocational Center（CTC） ” School”

Outline: In Nepal, both the literacy rate of women and Outline: The school was opened on February 7, 2008 in enrollment rate of girls are low. As the importance of education the largest city of Yangon in order to help women for women is not socially recognized, the thought that women do become financially independent. A knitting course and not need education is still prevalent. dressmaking course are offered 2 times a week, 3 hours In order to promote women’s empowerment and improve lives per lesson. of women, CTC was opened for women aged 15 to 30 in January The Knitting course provides classes for 3 months and 2005. Moving from Kathmandu and Thecho Village to Bharatpur, instructs what the students want to make, such as bags, based on the needs of communities, dressmaking classes had necklaces, plushies, key chains, and etc. with beads. been provided. The Dressmaking course has the beginner course for The Dressmaking course has the beginner course and the 3 months and the intermediate course for 3 months. advanced course and runs 3 times a year. The classes are Students produce 7 kinds of eingyi（traditional shirt）and required to take 5 times a week for 4 months. A beginner’s longyi（traditional skirt）for 3 months in the beginners course runs from 10:00 to 13:00, an advanced course runs from classes, and 3 kinds of skirts, 5 kinds of eingyi, 2 kinds 13:00 to 16:00. of gowns in the intermediate classes. The feature is that tuition is 1,000 rupee（for approx. 10 USD） In both courses, WFWP members are instructors. They for 4 months per 1 course and it is cheaper and easier to attend are deeply trusted by the students, and act as good in comparison with other classes. CTC has become a place to counselors to these students on technical and other provide a chance for economic independence to many Nepalese matters as well. women, who had had no choice but to engage only in housework. New Developments New Developments （2019） （2019） ● For the dressmaking course, only the beginner course ● All 35 students graduated and 2 became able to earn income. was held for 3 months. The instructor quit after this ● Good reputation spread through words of mouth, and course was complete, so the intermediate course there was a waiting list of students who wanted to attend. could not be held. （2020）  ● The students of the dressmaking course were diligent. ● The required period has changed into 5 times a week ● In Myanmar, bead accessories are not sold well, and for 3 months. even if they learn the skill, it does not lead to financial ● Eleven students of the advanced course graduated independence, so many students end up switching to and 8 became able to earn income. the dressmaking course. There is a need to revise the course content. Number of Students Beginner Advanced Total 2019 24 11 35 （2020）  2020 19 16 35 ● Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, only 3 classes of the beginner course of the dressmaking course were held. [Graduate who succeeded in independence] ● Because family members of students and instructors Mrs. Asmita Bhatta（31 years old） were infected by the COVID-19, the school was I learned at CTC because I thought that my under a long term closure. family would be able to live together if I got ● Some students earned income by making clothes at a job. Without waiting for graduation, I had home after being asked by their friends. a store in the shopping district and worked ● Instructors made masks and distributed to neighbors on sewing while selling clothing and fabrics. of the school. They appreciated them. A few months later, the store got on the Number of Students Knitting Dressmaking Total right track and I could cover the store’s 2019 8 20 28 rent with sewing income alone, could work 2020 0 5 5 with my husband who worked away from home, and could live together with my two children and parents-in-law.

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Handicraft Class of “Rusaifa Center” Beauty Care Class of Reopened “Wadi Seer Center”

Middle East themselves. They paid for all fees on their own, and

Jordan WFWP Japan paid for a portion of the rent. They were actively holding various activities. “WFWP Rusaifa Center” / “WFWP Wadi Seer ● In August, a course on “overcoming menopause” was Center” held and 20 women participated. ● In October, a course on “providing first aid” was held Outline: The Training Center was established in Wadi by the fire department and 40 women participated. Seer, a poverty-stricken area in the capital city, Amman, They visited a nursing home with handmade lunches in January 2000. Its aim was to support independence for 55 people. for women through teaching dressmaking, hairdressing, ● In December, a course on “the correct way of using computing, handicrafts, and gymnastics for health care. medication and preventing diseases” by a medical It also covered English, math and Arabic for children and doctor was held and 30 women participated. youths. WFWP Japan finished support of this center in December 2016. （2020）  On October 10, 2016, as the needs of the country Rusaifa Center have changed, the center was relocated to Rusaifa City ● Courses on law, emergency relief, and selecting in Zarqa Governorate. As there are many children who medication were held for women. are behind on their school work and cannot read and ● In February, a district meeting was held modeling the write in this area, WFWP operates mainly on literacy neighborhood associations of Japan aiming for local classes for children and young people and continues to neighbors to help each other out. support women’s self-help. ● Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was difficult to In July 2019, five women who had participated in the conduct any other activities. activities reopened the “WFWP Wadi Seer Center” in Wadi Seer Center order to contribute to the community. ● Crafts and beauty classes for women were held, but it was difficult to conduct any other activities due to the New Developments COVID-19 pandemic. （2019） Rusaifa Center 2019 Number of Students ● The women of the Rusaifa District were used to Courses for Youths receiving the transportation fee when participating in Arabic activities, and it was difficult to gather participants Arabic English for Handicrafts Ended in August （Rusaifa C） Women for Girls without this system. However, when their hearts were （Zalca C） released through the activities and they felt joy in 987 228 227 121 their activities, they began to actively participate even if the fees were not paid for them. Courses for Women ● In April, a course on “healthy food products” was held Beauty and 25 women participated. Handicrafts Koran English Care ● In July, the courses on “the rights of women” and “the Rusaifa 23 24 112 65 rights of children” were held by Bar Association and 56 women participated. Excercise Literacy Wadi Seer 35 20 In the same month, 20 women participated in the visit 100 16 to a nursing home. ● At first the children were constantly fighting, but 2020 Number of Students eventually they became able to get along with each Courses for Youths other. The parents were delightful, making remarks Arabic Arabic Emotional Program for such as “My children showed great improvement in （Rusaifa C） （Zalca C） Education Girls Arabic which they had never done.” and “My child’s 305 708 928 204 level of mathematics and English went up”. Wadi Seer Center Courses for Women ● Even after the center closed in December 2016, 5 Beauty Neighborhood women continued activities such as the visit to Handicrafts Koran Care Association nursing homes. Rusaifa 27 37 110 119 In July 2019, they found a place that can be used as a center and reopened the “Wadi Seer Center” by Wadi Seer 35 64

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Support for Vocational Training Classes Africa Sao Tome and Principe Sewing Classes

Outline: Sewing Classes began at the WFWP office in the capital, Sao Tome City in 2004 to provide social and emotional education for high school girls. Currently, classes are held for men and women over high school. The classes are held 4 times a week, for 2.5 hours a day. The required period is 10 months and students study theory and basic skills for first 5 months and study skills more deeply for latter 5 months. Classes on education of abstinence before marriage and ideal families, and education on a citizen and social development are also held at one time out of 4 time classes. At the end of a school year, graduates display their works at an exhibition and receive diplomas. Graduation Ceremony and Exhibition of Students’ Works

New Developments （2019）  provided at no cost and it became possible to use it ● Since it has become difficult to find a classroom in as a classroom. The location was good, and classes recent years, from 2016 the classes had been held at were held in a relaxed environment. a refurbished container, but since it had to get taken ● The school opened on January 6. Classes began with down the container classroom, the classroom was 13 students（1 male, 12 female）including students moved to the city outskirts. from the previous year. ● Due to local situations, the classes had a late start on ● Crocheting classes were newly added. October 23 and only the beginner course was held. ● The classes had been closed due to the COVID-19 This was not enough to show progress, so additional pandemic since April and the beginner course ended classes were held from January 2020 for students on September 6 without being able to restart. At the who were interested in. Nine students participated graduation ceremony, an exhibition was held and 6 and 3 of them were men. students（including 1 male）received diplomas. ● The classes were reopened on November 11 and （2020）  ended on December 12. Twelve women attended and ● The room of an other organization’s facility was 9 graduated. It was too short period to issue diplomas.

Middle East Afghanistan Vocational Education Project to Help Women Become Financially Independent

Outline: In order to improve the skills of women in their 20s to 40s who started their business in dressmaking, WFWP Japan had dispatched a lecturer from Japan to Afghanistan since September 2012 and had provided technical guidance support. However, the instruction in Afghanistan was interrupted due to political instability in 2018. In 2018, the base was moved to New Delhi, India, and WFWP Japan recruited applicants from graduates and With Graduates from Both Courses current students of the “Sayd Jamardin Afghan School” for Afghan refugees（WFWP Japan supported its management from 1994 to 2005）, and restarted ● In the design course, students who never had the instruction of dressmaking techniques at a vocational opportunity to learn arts and crafts were able to training school, the “Design Academy”. stimulate their creativity by learning about patterns, In the sewing course, students learn basic techniques colors, designs, and ideas. of sewing, and in the design course, students learn ● Eight students completed both courses. sewing of designed clothes and management of the ● The student who graduated with the best grades shops. Each course is six months long. became an interpreter and an assistant of the course through a scholarship project after graduation. NewDevelopments ● In order to secure stable funds, the method of support （2019） was changed into one of WFWP’s scholarship ● WFWP Japanese volunteers for Afghanistan recruited programs from August, which supports the student’s women aged 10s to 30s who are eager to learn skills admission fee, tuition, transportation fee, course and who are from families with UNHCR refugee visa. materials, and other expenses（See P 20） .

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Target 4.6 By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy

Construction and Management of Literacy Classes Caribbean Haiti School Name（English） ① Delmas Literacy Class Launched August 2008 Completion of School Building October 2012 Restarted at Newl School Building January 2013 A Class of Delmas Literacy Class Curriculum Literacy classes of Haitian language for adults of both sexes. Tuition is New Developments free. Since 2016, there have been 3 courses; Beginner, Intermediate （2019） and Advanced courses. ● In July, a course for training instructors was held. Thirteen people 【Beginner Course】After learning “Textbook 1” issued by the government for 3 months, students take the first exam and reading participated and 3 became the instructor of the beginner course. The exam, and the passers proceed to “Textbook 2”. They can pass with examinee who had the best score on the written exam became the over 50 points. After learning “Textbook 2” and “addition, subtraction, new instructor for the beginner course of the Delmas Literacy Class. and multiplication” for 3 months, they take the second examinations ● Pass rate: Beginner course 73%, Advanced course 75% and reading examination. A certificate will be awarded to the passers （2020） of all examinations and a certificate of participation will be awarded to ● The school was closed from March 20 due to the failed students with 50% or higher attendance rate. COVID-19 lockdown and reopened on September 7. 【Intermediate Course】WFWP’s original course. For the passers of Beginner Course, using a textbook of kindergarten senior class, the ● Pass rate: Beginner course 83%, Advanced course 100% course aims to improve reading and writing skills. After learning for 4 months, students take written and reading exams and get their grade reports. 【Advanced Course】WFWP’s original course. For the passers of Intermediate Course, using a textbook of the first grade of elementary school, the course aims to improve reading and writing skills. After learning for 4 months, students take written and reading exams and get their grade reports.

Outline: According to UNESCO, the illiteracy rate of Haitian people over 15 years old is 60.7%（2015）.Although Haiti was A Class of MIragoane Literacy Class the first nation to become independent among the Latin American countries in 1804, it was not until 1987 that Haitian Creole, the School Name (English) ② Miragoane Literacy Class language spoken by 80% of the population, was designated as Completion of School Building July 2018 their official language in addition to French. Education was only Opening of the Newly Built School November 2018 offered in French and this became a hurdle for the poor and rural residents to receive good education, thus resulting in the present Curriculum high illiteracy rate. Literacy classes of Haitian language for adults of both sexes. The capital, Port au Prince, was devastated when an Tuition is free. The school offers Beginner Course, Intermediate Course, and earthquake of 7.0 hit the country in January 2010. It became Advanced Course from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.for 5 days (Monday through difficult for WFWP to continue the literacy education which we Friday) a week . Same curricurum as Delmas Literacy School. had offered on a regular basis since 2008, because the school building was completely destroyed. WFWP Japan decided to collect donations and build new classrooms for literacy education Outline: On April 12, 2014, the Mayor of Miragoane City as reconstruction assistance for the earthquake. participated in GWPN Assembly hosted by WFWP Haiti and The construction started in September 2011, and was was impressed, so Miragoane City decided to provide WFWP completed in October 2012. The school opened in January 2013. a free land under the condition that WFWP uses it for social The Secretary of State for Literacy Delmas Office has given contribution. Later, with the financial support from WFWP guidance for this school. International, the school building of the literacy class was completed in July 2018. The opening ceremony was held Delmas Number Course Men Women Total on October 5, 2018 and the Mayor of Miragoane was invited. of Students Beginner Ⅰ 1 13 14 New Developments Beginner Ⅱ 1 7 8 （2019） 2019 Intermediate Ⅱ 0 12 12 ● Eighteen students attended the beginner course from February to August. Advanced Ⅰ 1 16 17 ● Some students were not able to attend the literacy class Total 3 48 51 due to streets being blocked from riots in the capital area. Beginner Ⅰ 1 7 8 ● The construction of walls around the classroom ground was started. Intermediate 0 0 0 It became known that the city was trying to sell a part of the school 2020 ground, but this was prevented by constructing the walls. Advanced Ⅰ 1 8 9 ● A graduation ceremony was held on September 8. Total 2 15 17 （2020） ● As a preventive measures against COVID-19, the school has been closed since March 18.

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Support for Literacy Classes Asia Bangladesh Support for Management of Literacy Classes

Outline: This class started in January 2008 at a classroom inside a free clinic established by a local female doctor at Majid Salder Community of the Old Dacca District for mothers who live in the slum area. There was a need for a literacy class for mothers since many women were giving medicine in ineffective ways to their children. Eventually children who are not able to go to school started attending the class as well, and in 2015 a class for children was newly started. The tuition is free.

【The Curriculum of the Literacy Class for Mothers】 ● Reading and writing of Bengali, numbers, time, calculation, and words used in daily life. Children are Happy with Gifts ● Our life: Reading descriptions and memorizing words and phrases using pictures of family, relatives, friends, food, laundry, cooking, shopping, etc. New Developments ● Our society: Reading descriptions and memorizing （2019） words and phrases using pictures related to schools, ● A few women have found jobs and have shown the markets, town halls, hospitals, mosques, banks, possibilities of becoming independent, but some workplaces, etc. women have not moved on in their studies for years. Each class is held for 90 minutes 5 times a week ● Providing lunch for children has been effective, and it throughout the year. led to literacy education naturally. For the local women, it was revolutionary to be able ● On November 7, a WFWP Japanese volunteer for to read and write at first grade level since they have Bangladesh visited the literacy class and gifted candy never received education. and balls to women and Japanese snacks to children. 【Literacy Class for Children】 ● Since the Japanese volunteers became elderly, Students from first to fifth grade learn from 9 am to 12 support from Japan was temporarily stopped and pm every day. Since the children are from poor families taken over by WFWP Bangladesh. of the slum area, a nutritious lunch is served after class. A health check-up is regularly held and nutritional Number of Mothers Mothers Children Total supplements are also supplied. Vermifuge for Students Beginner Intermediate roundworms, vitamins, medicine for skin diseases, 2019 30 10 11 51 injection drugs, and antibiotics are also given to children who need them.

Africa Ethiopia Management of Literacy Class “One Hope Garden”

Outline: Upon request from Ethiopian government, WFWP Japanese volunteers for Ethiopia restarted a literacy class for women in 2014 at “One Hope Garden” in Woreda District 8 of Addis Ababa City, the capital, which had been operated from 1997 to 2000. In one year, students learn basic knowledge of Amharic, basic arithmetic, basic English, family planning, moral education, childcare and basic knowledge of business. Ninety-minute classes are held in the afternoon twice a week. Since 2016, the class has accepted people who want With Students to learn regardless of gender and age. ● Seventeen women attended, and 7 of them graduated New Developments in June. （2019） ● Women of the district came to learn in between work （2020） to improve their quality of life, and some families are ● As a preventive measures against COVID-19, the starting to get out of poverty. class was closed.

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Target 4.c By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing States

Producing Art Teachers Caribbean Dominica Support for Art Education

Outline: This program was started at the request of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit. While he was Minister of Education, he was concerned about his country’s lack of art education in the public education system. Since November 2002, WFWP Japanese volunteers for Dominica who were asked for cooperation from him, have taught, art as an elective subject for freshmen in the Department of Education at the “Dominica State College（DSC） ”, the only national university in this Art Class of a Primary School country. They have held classes for 3 hours per week, 7-8 times in one term, during 2 terms in one academic year and taught basic practical skills of sketch, watercolor painting, and design and the purpose of art education. These volunteers also have guided incumbent preschool and public elementary teachers at a social center run by the Catholic Church and have held workshops of art education and arts and crafts for infants and lower graders of primary school. In order to promote emotional education and moral education for youths, the volunteers also have taught art at youth rehabilitation centers and elementary schools by request. The schools in Dominica did not teach art until WFWP Japanese volunteers taught, so the textbooks were created mainly by WFWP Japanese volunteers who studied art professionally. The art supplies used by the students were not available in Dominica at the beginning of this project, however, nowadays some are available but expensive. Therefore, the Instruction at DSC Online Class volunteers distribute donated art supplies collected in Japan and the art supplies purchased with the donations collected ● On November 18, the volunteers visited the “Laplain Primary School” through bazaars, charity events and etc. to the students. which was introduced by the Minister of Education of Dominica and held an art class for 25 second to fourth graders and donated art supplies. New Developments （2020） （2019） ● Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the volunteers could ● From May 11 to June 1 and November 16-30, at “DSC”, the not visit Dominica and give instruction directly. volunteers held art classes and instructed art education for ● From December to January 2021, an online class was primary education such as sketch, watercolors, and crafts, held for 1 student of DSC. design, and poster painting from 9 am to 12 pm every ● The volunteers launched “Mask Project” in August and started asking Saturday（7 times during their stays）. Thirty five students for mask making and donations of masks to WFWP district attended in May and 23 students attended in November. federations which support Dominica and WFWP district federations to ● In May, the volunteers visited the “Social Centre” 3 times and which the volunteers for Dominica belong. instructed decoupage to 10 youths who have some kind of In the beginning of December, a total of 4,234 masks（2,248 cloth psychological issues. They also visited the center 3 times in masks and 1,986 non-woven masks）was collected and sent to 21 November and instructed simple cooking, paper fan making, facilities in Dominica where art classes were held, such as the and Christmas tree and card making to 16 youths. universities, primary schools, nursery schools, social facilities, ● In May, the volunteers visited the “Roseau Primary School” churches, and other institutions. The local people were in great need twice and held art classes. On May 22, they made a “koinobori” of masks, so the schools and the facilities appreciated very much. （carp-shaped windsocks）using construction paper and colored paper with 33 second and third graders. They also made paper airplanes and had a flying competition. On May 29, they made pop-up cards with 15 fourth graders and donated art supplies. ● On May 28, the volunteers visited the “Convent Primary School”, held an art class and donated art supplies to the school. Six pupils who exhibited their artwork at the “Exhibition of Paintings of Children in the World” sponsored by a Japanese NGO were awarded prizes at the school assembly. ● On May 25 and November 23, the volunteers held art classes at the youth rehabilitation facility ”Operation Youth Quake”. Four children participated in each class. ● On November 14, at the “Little Gem Preparatory School”, the volunteers read picture books, instructed “koinobori” making for 25 children aged 3 to 5 and donated origami paper. Masks Donated from Japan

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Producing Character Education Teachers Caribbean Cuba ① Project to Promote Character Education Outline: The Educators’ Association of Cuba（APC: Asociacion de Pedagogos de Cuba）, which has been making efforts to improve the public education of Cuba through training and research activities, showed a deep interest in the contents of the character education program which WFWP Dominican Republic has been implementing. The APC hoped to introduce this program in a form suitable for Cuba, so WFWP Japanese volunteers for Cuba accepted this proposal and started to provide support in January 2014.

New Developments （2019） ● WFWP Japanese volunteers visited the teachers’ collages（schools to train high school graduates to be Visit to a Teachers’ College in Havana teachers）in Havana and Mayabeque to observe the workshops for character education in May 2019. ● WFWP Japanese volunteers participated in the national workshop of the project in 24-25 May, 2019. The teachers who are lecturers of the character education in seven teachers’ collages and the students who have received character education at teachers’ collages across the nation, in total 30 persons, gathered in Havana for a day and a half to review the activities of the year. There was an enthusiastic discussion on how to develop and continue the project in the future, as well as an appreciation of the positive results.

（2020） ● The Project to Promote Character Education was Mrs. Matsumoto, WFWP Japanese Volunteer, Greeting at the introduced to all the teachers’ colleges across the “National Workshop on Ethical and Moral Education” country at the APC convention in January 2020, attracting much interest. The Ministry of Education officially recognized the character education initiated by the project as an extracurricular subject, and the teachers engaged in the project will be paid additional allowances. ● Due to the pandemic of Coronavirus, public education in Cuba was closed from March to September 2020.

② Project to Promote Ethical and Moral Education Outline: The Project started from 2012 with an aim of contributing to the improvement of ethical and moral Cover of APPROACH TO A CONCEPTION OF EDUCATION FOR education in Cuba’s public education with the Chair of CITIZENSHIP IN TEACHER TRAINING and a message of presentation Applied Ethics on Education（Cátedra de Ética Aplicada by Mrs. Matsumoto a la Educación; about 10 affiliated professors）of the National University of Educational Science as a ● A book titled “Approach to a Conception of Education for counterpart. Cost for publications on research results, Citizenship in Teacher Training” was published by the National annual national workshops related to ethical and moral University of Educational Science “Enrique José Varona”, education as well as equipment and part of office which summarizes the research results of the Chair of Applied expenses have been supported. Ethics on Education. WFWP Japan supported the printing costs, and the book was published in December 2019. A New Developments greeting note by Ms. Matsumoto was placed at the beginning （2019） of the book. The book was highly praised in the educational ● Support was made for the publishing of the Chair’s community and was awarded a national prize by the Cuban research results on civic education and for a projector. Academy of Sciences. ● On 22-23 May, 2019, the “National Workshop on Ethical and Moral Education” was held. Two professors invited （2020） from Brazil gave a presentation on ethics education in ● The “National Workshop on Ethical and Moral Brazil. Ms. Yuriko Matsumoto, a WFWP Japanese Education” which had been prepared as an volunteer, introduced the speech of the Founder of international conference in May 2020 was cancelled WFWP, which was very well received. due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Character Education and Moral Education Caribbean of Saint Lucia do not have the concept of marriage, the

Saint Lucia government is working on that issue. Following the policy of the government, counseling on how to become good Character Education for the Reconstruction of husbands and wives and WFWP’s philosophy of “Godism” are Family being held for couples and youths who are addicted to drugs. An event celebrating “International Day of Families” founded by the UN is held every year on May 15. New Developments（2019） ● A counseling of overcoming drug addiction was given Thinking to 4 adults and 40 couples, and almost all of them about Life completely recovered. while Writing ● Fifty religious leaders and 35 youths attended Gratitude on the Christmas character education seminars at “YEC”. Card （2020） ● In March, a seminar on “the importance of family” was held Outline: In Saint Lucia, 90% of the population are for 2 days at a Christian church and 35 people attended. descendants of slaves brought from Africa. It’s one reason On the second day, an event for “starting out as a new why the family system is very weak. Therefore, 85% of the married couple” was held and 12 couples attended. children are born outside of marriage. Many teenagers get ● In May and December, at the orphanage “New Beginning pregnant, give birth to babies, and become single mothers. Transit Home”, a character education seminar and a Sixty percent of deaths from murder are caused by domestic craft class as a support program were held for upper violence. In this circumstance where family systems are grade elementary pupils and 10 pupils attended. corrupt and parents are unable to educate their children at ● In October, a character education seminar was held home, volunteers felt the need for character and ethical for lower grade elementary pupils at the orphanage education at public educational facilities such as schools, and “Holy Children Home” and 18 pupils attended. They have negotiated with the Ministry of Education from 2004. In were very touched by the interaction. 2005, it became possible to begin character education at a ● Five youths attended seminars at “YEC”. It became a national level with the recommendation of the Ministry of valuable time to think about their lives and a few Education of Saint Lucia. mentioned that their view of life has somewhat changed. In 2015, WFWP established the “Youth Education Center ● Four people attended a seminar on “how to create a （YEC）“ and started educational activities. Since the people good family” and counseling.

Central and South America to improve the morals of Costa Rica citizens, character education

Costa Rica for all ages and gender was started in 2020. While working with board members of WFWP Costa Rica and youth groups, the Character Education Project necessary education according to each age group has been given such as view of marriage, prenatal training, view of family, view of humanity, view of history, ethics, and morals. VIPs such as presidential officials, professors, journalists, and entrepreneurs also attended the seminars. New Developments （2020） A Seminar Held at A The lecture meetings were held with specialist speakers. Member’s Online（Zoom）lecture meetings received positive feedback House for being able to participate from home, and many participants were interested in attending again. The main Outline: In Costa Rica, peace education and environmental lecture meetings were following 3 lectures. education are abundant, but they are lacking character education Date Number of Participants Lecturers Theme which ennobles humanity. In reality, they are facing issues of Feb. 22 27 (Offline) Teresa Pineda, Educator Moral in Family “Love, Respect and Tolerance” dysfunctional families such as step families, neglect of children Aug. 1 45 (Online) Julia Rohas, Psychologist Healthy Behavior in Crisis Oct. 31 40 (Online) Calorina Roca, Psychologist Five Expression of Love “Secret of Long Lasting Love” due to drug and alcohol addiction, and domestic violence. In order

Eastern Europe are becoming serious.

Russia Through educational contents based on WFWP’s philosophy such as moral education, AIDS prevention Support for Ethical Education education, character education, and family education, WFWP Japanese volunteers for Russia hoped to create opportunities to give guidance on a happy way of life and family values. In 2020, they started the support of holding seminars on ethical education for teenagers, teachers, and parents in Moscow while working together Medical with WFWP Russia. College New Developments（2020） Students ● In February, seminars were held for 30 junior and Attended the senior high school students living near St. Petersburg Seminar and 89 medical vocational students. Outline: According to the statistics of the UN, Russia ● From May to December, online seminars were held for has the highest divorce rate in the world, and problems 95 students. such as dysfunctional families, alcohol, drugs, and sex

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Sound Development of Youth ● In February, WFWP rent a sports ground of Zarqa City and held a “Family Festival”. The mothers of the children attending the Center were invited for sports, plays, and games with their children. ● Once a week in March and April, 40 to 50 boys living around the Center participated in a cleaning campaign. When some people stopped by to say “Thank you”, the boys felt the joy of volunteering for others. ● During summer break from June to August, children Children Working on Cleaning interested in play and acting were gathered at the Center and held theatre performance tours. One hundred children Middle East gathered, made scripts, and practiced. On the trip which

Jordan was also a bus tour for the children, they performed in front of 150 children at 3 districts in poor areas. Acting in Education for disadvantaged young people and front of others gave confidence to the children and made children them felt the joy of making others happy. Outline: From 2015 to 2018, WFWP supported the emotional ● Since the only children’s playground is on the street and it is education through the theatrical play for children in refugee camps easy for children to be led into delinquency, the center started which was requested by a youth group in the refugee camp in Zarqa, to provide the time for sports such as soccer once a week to the second largest city in Jordan. Through a theatrical play, it aims children who come to the center for their activities. They are for young people and children to overcome their difficult now looking forward to this time. circumstances, to experience that they can expand their possibilities （2020） depending on the way of thinking and to acquire strong mentality. ● During winter break from January to mid-March, 30 children Since 2019, emotional education has been provided for children held a theater performance tour for the children of Zarqa City. around the “Rusaifa Center（See P24）” managed by WFWP in ● Activities were canceled from March to June. From June Rusaifa District of Zarqa City. to July, children practiced for a theatre performance In Jordan, 10-year basic school education is compulsory at tour, but they could not travel far due to the COVID-19 elementary and junior high school level. However, public schools in poor pandemic. Therefore, they rent a hall near the center, areas do not have events for children, such as excursions, sports invited their mothers and held the “Mother and Child events, and sports competitions during this period. Moreover, it is Festivals” several times in August. They could not hold a impossible for children who cannot read and write to find decent jobs tour, but they were able to act in front of their mothers even after they graduate. Many youths get involved in the adult society and enjoyed other activities such as game. The festival where everything is solved through violence and end up committing was a great success. Since there is no such activity at crimes. In light of these circumstances, WFWP decided to plan activities public schools and both the children and mothers had a focusing on emotional education which enables children to have fun and great time and they had fun that they have never had. childlike experiences for a sound and healthy development. ● In July, an excursion was held as part of the emotional education for the children of the Center. Seventy children New Developments（2019） participated. Since low income families do not have cars ● In January, a set of swings, slide, seesaw, and or enough money, children had never had the chance to exercising bars were installed in the yard of the WFWP go on picnic. It was a good experience for them. Rusaifa Center（hereinafter ”the Center”）to provide a ● As a preventive measures against COVID-19, activities were healthy playing environment for children. canceled from October but resumed in November.

Central America cooperator of the football tournament.

Honduras ● From October to November, the “WFWP’s Cup Football Tournament” was held. Seven teams from elementary Sound Development of Youths Project schools having football teams in Colonia Reparto Outline: In Honduras, due to poverty, opportunities for participated. Since this area focuses on character study are lost, some children are forced to work since when education, the tournament put up a banner with a they were little, and many children lay their hands on drugs. message related to this. In order to solve problems such as youth sexual disorder, （2020） teenage pregnancy, unmarried mothers, activities for sound ● In November, a large development of youths are necessary. hurricane hit Honduras In 2001, at Colonia Reparto in Tegucigalpa City, WFWP twice. On December 19, implemented football games and seminars on pure love 60 bags of supplies education. That triggered the formation of a youth group in （containing food supplies this area. This group has regularly conducted sports events, and sanitary products） AIDS prevention and moral education, and community were distributed at Donated Football Uniforms service activities. Since 2015, WFWP has supported Colonia Reparto along teaching materials for AIDS prevention education, with local cooperating instructions on AIDS prevention and moral education organizations to the courses as well as a part of the funds for activities. children who participated in the New Development “WFWP’s Cup Football （2019） Tournament” and their ● On March 4, a WFWP Japanese volunteer for family members. Honduras donated football uniforms for 1 team to a A Football Game

Other country operating sound development of youth projects: Argentina

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Art Activity Support for Youths Eastern Europe of Paintings of Children in the World ” held in Japan.

Russia New Developments Art Activity Support for Disabled Children and （2019） Children Under Medical Treatment ● On December 3, WFWP Japanese volunteers for Russia Outline: Since visited the public rehabilitation center of the Moscow 2013, as a part of District, “Centaurus”. The event commemorating the rehabilitation of “International Day of People with Disability” founded by the disabled children UN was held and the volunteers held an origami class. They and children under donated Pop-up books that are helpful for rehabilitation and medical treatment Coupy-Pencil donated from Japanese supporters. in Moscow City, ● On December 7, the volunteers participated in an event WFWP has at the “Pover’ v mechtu”. They held an appreciation supported painting gathering of paintings rent from the “Paintings of Children materials and in the World Cultural Exchange Meeting（PCWCEM） ” and Presentation of Award Certificate and Prize of Exhibition expenses of an origami class at a salon of this organization. management of the ● They awarded certificates and prizes for PCWCEM of exhibition through a charity fund organization “ Поверь в 2018 to children of both facilities. мечту（Pover’ v mechtu=Believe in the Dream）”. （2020） Since 2014, the paintings of children of facilities which ● The volunteers could not enter Russia due to the WFWP has supported have been submitted to the “Exhibition COVID-19 pandemic, so no activity was held.

South America and started supporting the management of a music class in

Venezuela 2015. In 2019, name of the class was changed into the “Sunhak Academy”. Support for Music Education Classes of solfege（training how to read musical scores） , Outline: Since vocal, guitar, recorder and traditional ethnic instruments Venezuela has （mandolin, cuatro, maracas, and arpa）are held in the many problems, afternoons on 4 days a week. There are five 45 minute such as political classes in a day. Registration fee is free. Tuition fee is $25 instability, intense per month. If they don’t have their own instruments, the class inflation, the world’s lend them. There is a scholarship system for children aged 7 lowest level of to 17 and the recipients can learn for free. monthly income, people are New Development threatened with （2019） Recital their lives. Although ● Number of students:（7 to 17 years old）32 ,（18 music was not years old and over）18,（Total）50 included in school subjects, WFWP Japanese volunteers for ● In September, the name of the class changed into the Venezuela thought that there are values for music education ”Sunhak Academy”. outside schools because Venezuelan people have national ● On December 11, a recital was held and all the students character to love music. Moreover, since music is good for and 4 teachers participated and 50 people attended. emotional education, the volunteers decided to support （2020） music education as they wished children to have hope. ● From January to March, classes of mandolin, cuatro, In February 2014, the music class “San Agustin Musical” arpa, guitar, vocak, and solfege were held. The was opened at the conference rooms borrowed from a local number of students were approximately 50. youth volunteer group in San Agustin del Norte district of ● In December, classes for vocal, solfege, and cuatro were Libertad City in the capital city Caracas. WFWP Japan held. The number of students were approximately 20. supported funds to purchase musical instruments in 2014,

Africa Whenever the volunteers visit Mauritania, they visit

Mauritania kindergartens, elementary schools, and facilities in the capital Nouakchott mainly and teach music, origami, and art to students Emotional Education and teachers. They also support various educational materials. Outline: Mauritania is a country with New Developments 90% of its land being （2019） desert, and children ● Some keyboard harmonicas were donated to the who live in this harsh “School Ashbal” where the volunteers have held environment do not emotional education classes every year. have the opportunity ● On Wednesdays during November to December 5, the to grow emotionally. volunteers taught songs in a music class to the children of a In 1996, WFWP kindergarten in El Mina, a poor area of Nouakchott. They Japanese volunteers taught the ”Song of Frogs” in Japanese and gifted handmade Presented Handmade Flog Pappets for Mauritania frog puppets so that they can keep them as memories. started emotional （2020） education so that Mauritanian children can have a chance to ● The volunteers could not enter Mauritania due to the see beautiful things and experience fun activities even a little. COVID-19 pandemic, so no activity was implemented.

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Goal 5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Target 5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

Family Reconstruction Education

A Japanese Volunteer Greeting at a Family Center Distribution of Christmas Gifts

Central and South America ● For certain reasons, FC activities were refrained from

Peru November 2018. In October 2019, Mrs. Anzai and Mrs. Shiozawa, WFWP Japanese volunteers for Peru, Family Reconstruction Education at Public coordinated in Peru and officially resumed activities at FCs. Kitchens in Impoverished Areas ● On October 15, Mrs. Anzai visited 5 FCs in Huaycan District of Lima City, interacted with 69 members, and Outline: The Peruvian Government offers low-cost meals at announced the resumption. public kitchens to the people in poor areas as a countermeasure ● On October 28, Mrs. Shiozawa visited 3 FCs in Trujillo City, to poverty. The housewives in the neighborhood manage public interacted with 81 women, and announced their resumption. kitchens centering on area leaders. They sell the lunches they ● Since the members of FCs have been educated by taking courses prepared and obtain funding from their sales. Women living in for many years, though there was a blank period. They were impoverished areas suffer from many serious problems, such as serious and sincere in listening to the lectures by the instructor. domestic violence, family disunity, drug abuse, child abandonment, child birth by unwed women, etc. （2020） In August 2007, WFWP established membership system ● Two of the 3 FCs in Puno City were newly decided and Family Centers（FCs）in 9 public kitchens in impoverished the members of FCs had implemented visiting lecture areas of Lima, and started educational programs to rebuild activities every month with new members until March families for mothers living in the neighborhood. All 9 FCs when a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pan- were named after the names of WFWP Japanese volunteers demic was declared. and supporters. Each supports educational activities in the The theme of the lecture in January was “Purpose of FC of her name. Life” and “Health”. WFWP holds lecture meetings several times a year at each In February, theme was “Family is a school of love”, FC and presents a panettone（whole cake）to all participants In March, a quinoa cake class was held and a lecture on Mother’s day in May and Christmas day in December. on the theme of “Becoming one” was held. Immediately Education at the FC based on the philosophy of WFWP after that, the COVID-19 became pandemic. Due to the plays an important role in enhancing the status of women in government’s measures against the COVID-19, it was not the area around the kitchens, family reconstruction such as possible to do visiting activities. restoration of husband and wife relations and parents and ● In Trujillo City, the branch director had conducted child relations, and improving public security around the FCs. visiting lecture activities monthly for three months until the COVID-19 pandemic. # of Members & In December, at 9 FCs, WFWP presented Panethone 2019 2020 Lectures （whole cakes）to 350 members, exercise balls and # of # of # of # of candies to 400 children, and gave mini breads and hot Cities # of FCs Members Lectures Members Lectures chocolates which are annual items to celebrate Christ- 9 234 234 mas to everyone. They were grateful and rejoiced that Lima 5 0 they were able to get together again at the center. 45 386 386 At each center, the branch director gave a short lec- Puno 3 60 8 60 4 ture on “The importance of women at this time” as a Trujillo 9 330 19 350 36 measure against the COVID-19. Total 66 1,010 32 1,030 40 Although there was a problem that all kinds of meet- ings were prohibited and regulated due to the New Developments COVID-19 pandemic, WFWP was able to take measures （2019） to prevent the problem and carry out the activity ● On May 30, Mrs. Anzai, a WFWP overseas volunteer for safely. The women and children at the center also had Peru, visited 3 FCs in Huaycan District of Lima City and a lot of trouble with the COVID-19, so they were very interacted with 40 members. pleased to receive the lectures and gifts.

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Central America Costa Rica TV Program “Age of Woman” Production

Outline: In Costa Rica, where the divorce rate is high at 70-80%, family breakdown is serious, children are badly hurt. In October 2007, WFWP TV program “Age of Woman（Era de la Mujer）” was broadcasted on cable TV “Telepath 52 Channel” so that it could be widely enlightened through the media with the aim of improving women’s view of family and values and moral of the youths. Since 2011, WFWP had produced 4 to 5 minute micro-documenta- Mrs. Nobumi Shiratori, a WFWP Japanese volunteer for Costa Rica, Giving ries that interviewed experts in each field and addressed Costa Congratulatery Remarks on the 12th Anniversary of the “Age of Woman” Rica’s problems. They were provided to the channel 15 of the Nation- al University of Costa Rica Broadcasting Station and had been regularly broadcasted. At the same time, they were also broadcasted on the University of Costa Rica Broadcasting Station’s own Internet network, and were also available on Facebook and YouTube. In 2018, WFWP switched from TV program production to documentary production. Since there were many fields in which women were involved and there were plenty of themes to produce videos, the themes of docu- mentaries were no longer necessary to focus only on women. Through the activities of 12 years, WFWP was able to obtain results such as being able to raise issues and educate not only women but also a wide range of people through the media, and contribute to raising the awareness of women and educators. Therefore, this activity was ended at the end of 2019. Scene of the Ceremony

New Developments sponsored by WFWP Costa Rica. Two female leaders gave （2019） speeches on women’s solidarity and empowerment, and a ● Seven micro documentary video programs were produced WFWP Japanese volunteer for Costa Rica gave a congrat- as one series. The result was a complaint about the current ulatory remarks. Seventy eight people participated. situation of being involved in a large-scale consumerist whirlwind. Each production was the theme of UN activities. 2019 Titles of Micro Documentaries ● The staff members had more opportunities to talk with pro- Our Earth is dangerous Voluntary Service Community fessors and experts studying at “University of Costa Rica” and “TEC University” and received advice for production. Energy of Costa Rica Voluntary Cleaning of City River ● On November 2, a symposium was held to commemorate Climate Change and Food Crisis Series 506 Comprehensive Summary the 12th anniversary of the TV program “Age of Woman” Natural Medicine from Ancient Times

Target 5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

Eastern Europe do homework, make handicrafts, sing and play.

Moldova Twenty five children come to the Center daily where six staff members including counselors take care of them. Moti- Support for Management of the “Children’s vation for studying among the children has progressed Day-Care Center” remarkably. They are proud of the Japanese supporters. In 2016, a Children’s Day Care Center was established in Outline: Moldova is one of the poorest countries in Europe Calarasi District and 30 children attend there every day. and 50% of the population go outside the country to work. Although parents leave their children to their grandparents New Developments or relatives, some foster families sell these children out of （2019-20） desperation for money. Moldova has become one of the Some of the center’s graduates have excellent grades major suppliers of human trafficking due to the lack of sys- and have been able to go on to high school or college. tems and facilities to protect children. The graduates visit the center when they return home All schools have unprotected children who cannot afford to and share their thoughts by playing with their junior buy clothes, underwear or teaching materials and cannot eat, children. The graduates are very proud to be from this but cannot enter the orphanage because their parents are day care center because it would not have been possi- alive. Urged by local educators and scholars, in 2001 WFWP ble to pursue such a course without the center. established a Childers’s Day-Care Center at the Cazanesti public elementary and junior high school in the village of Cazanesti, Telenesti District, in order to protect children at compulsory education age（up to 15 years old）from becom- ing victims. WFWP borrow some classrooms, a play room, and a dining hall of the school for free and use them as the Center. The Center supplies needy children with clothing, underwear and school materials to send them to school, feeds them after school, and provides them with a place to Children Interacting with Guests

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Goal 6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Target 6.1 By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all Target 6.2 By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations

Hygiene Instruction

Hand Washing Instruction for Foster Children Toothbrushing Instruction at RSP Kindergarten

Asia Oceania Myanmar Micronesia School Health, Hygiene & Environment Project Hygiene Guidance Project

Outline: Since 1998, WFWP has supported the installation Outline: In response to the wishes of toothbrushes from parents and of toilets, water tanks and hand-wash stations in public guardians of elementary schools in Pohnpei State where authorities elementary schools in cooperation with the Ministry of Health have been making effort to improve dental health, WFWP Japanese vol- of Myanmar. Hygiene instructions on e.g. how to properly unteers for Micronesia have provided toothbrushes and toothbrushing wash hands and brush teeth have also been offered. instructions with only water for elementary school pupils in 4 districts: Nett, U and Sokehs since 2008, and Kitti since 2016. New Developments（2019） ● On December 3, a WFWP Japanese volunteer for New Developments（2019） Myanmar held hand-washing instruction for 33 foster ● WFWP Japanese volunteers instructed toothbrushing for a total children at the “Seikgyi Kanaung Do Elementary of 440 pupils of the “Awak Elementary School,” the “RSP Kinder- School”. garten and Elementary School,” the “Lewetik Elementary School,” ● On December 6, the Japanese volunteer held and “Sarapwuk Elementary School.” As the teachers took the hand-washing instruction for 37 foster children at the initiative in instruction, the pupils improved their toothbrushing. “Thitsu Elementary School”. She had instructed hand ● Toothbrushes were donated to the “CCA Elementary washing there before, and all foster children remem- School” and the “Ohmine Elementary School”. bered the order of hand washing. She also spoke ● With the cooperation of a Japanese toothbrush manufactur- about checking nails and germs for children. er, WFWP Japan donated 4,000 toothbrushes to Micronesia. (2020) （2020） ● Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the volunteers could ● Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the volunteers could not visit Myanmar and the activities were suspended. not visit Micronesia and the activities were suspended.

Ensuring the Use of Safe Water Installed a water purifier in a Thai school On May 30, 2020, the “Giving for Good Live Auction” was held by WFWP International. With the fund from this auction, a water purifier was installed at the “Sawatic Pitayacom School（junior and senior high school）” in Buriram Province, Thailand. The school had a water purifier out of order for over 25 years, forcing students Installed Water Purifier and Water Fetching Place Students Drinking Water from the Tap to buy bottled water. There were some students who couldn’t buy enough due to family situations, so the school was worried about their health. By installing a new water purifier, every student and teacher can continue to use safe water without financial concerns, and the health of the entire school can be protected. The installation work of the water purifier was com- pleted in August 2020, and a ceremony was held at the school to thank WFWP International. Gratitude Ceremony Held at the School

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Africa Niger Water Environment Improvement Project

Outline: In remote villages of Niger, most of the diseases affecting villagers are caused by poor hygiene, so improv- ing the environment is an important issue for eradicating the diseases. In particular, the problem of wells, which are indispensable for the life of the village, is serious, and most of the wells in the village are slippery, have no roof, and are left in a wild and unsanitary condition. In larger wells, when children pump well water, they stand on the edge of a well and hang a leather bag. That causes accidents of children falling inside of the well. In 2014, WFWP Japanese Volunteers for Niger started a well renovation project which renovates old well into Water Fetching Place pump style one in order to improve the dangerous and unsanitary conditions of wells and to supply safe water to villagers. In villages without wells, they excavated water veins and built water towers and water supply facilities.

New Developments （2019） ● November-December: Water tower and water supply installed in Namari Zarma Village In the village of Namari Zarma, Baleyara District, Tillaberi Region （see P9）and the surrounding villages where WFWP’s mobile clinic was conducted, there was only one well that could be used due to the salt content in the soil. It was inconvenient for the villagers’ lives and caused various problems. Therefore, in response to a request from the village, construction of a water tower using solar Water Veins that Gushed out Vigorously Water Tower with Solar Panels power generation was started in November 2019. On November 26, when the water vein was found by installed, and water was supplied to the village square. boring, water gushed out from the ground like a fountain, On December 31, a water fetching place with 6 faucets was so the villagers who were there were cheered. completed. The village was very grateful, and a letter of appreciation After that, solar power generation and a water tower were and a fat sheep were donated to WFWP as the sign of gratitude.

（2020） ● October 2020-February 2021：Water tower and water supply installed on the premises of the “Madeini Tadeta General Health Center（MCSI）” Construction was decided with support from the “Giving for Good Live Auction” held by WFWP International on May 30, 2020. MCSI was constructed with the support of WFWP（see P9）, but there was no well on the premises, and the water supply was carried by plastic tanks from a well far away. Since the site is a rocky layer, the ground is hard, and many attempts have been made to dig a well, but each time it was not possible to reach the water vein. When installing the water tower this time, a ground survey for water vein exploration was conducted at first and confirmed the water veins. With an excavator carried from Nigeria, the water veins were finally found at a depth of 150 meters. Passed Water Quality Water Tower On October 24, the excavation work was started in the early Inspection afternoon, and finally reached the water vein after midnight. When it gushed out, the villagers who were watching over the work were overjoyed. On October 28, a water quality inspection was conducted by the water quality ministry officials of Madarounfa Arrondisse- ment, and the well passed with a depth of 150m and a water vein with a depth of 25cm. On November 21, the construction of a water tower that pumps water using solar power generation and a diesel engine was completed. After the water tower was installed, the village mayor sent a video with words of gratitude. On February 8, 2021, a water fetching place with 3 faucets was completed on the MCSI premises. The women in the village who come to fetch water every day were very grateful, saying, “The water fetching place has made the job of fetching water easier.” Water Fetching Place. Building in Front is MCSI.

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Youth Volunteers for International Cooperation WFWP has been conducting volunteer projects in developing countries since 1997, in cooperation with other NGOs so that Japanese youth can have a sense of ‘the Global Family’. Since 2006, it has been dispatching youths to WFWP mission countries and nurturing successors through experiencing activities with WFWP overseas volunteers. Despite the culture shock the young people may encounter, they undergo important experiences not easily found in Japan, by shedding sweat together and communicating with the local people. It is a precious opportunity through which they can learn what volunteering is about and what international cooperation or international contribution is about through real life experiences.

Thailand Team January 6-15, 2019 Nine youths participated. 【Common Activities in 2019 & 2020】 WebsiteHP They visited the “Ban Huaysing School”, which has been ・Visit to the “Ban Huaysing School” where supported by WFWP Japanese volunteers for Thailand since many foster children attend 2000, and interacted with the students. ・Visit to the homes of foster children of Karen Hill Tribe and an elementary school in a village of Karen Hill Tribe ・Sightseeing in Chiang Mai and the world heritage sites; Ayutthaya and Bangkok City ・Sisterhood ceremony between Japanese youth volunteers and Thai youths

Supplies support to a village where foster children live Introduced “Fukuwarai”, Japanese game Box making volunteer activity

January 6-14, 2020 Four youths participated. 【Activities in 2020】 WebsiteHP ・Painting volunteer activity ・Holding an event to introduce Japanese culture ・Organizing Sports festival ・Yukata dressing experience

Visit to a home of a foster child Painting volunteer activity Yukata dressing experience

Belarus Team September 1-13 Six youths participated. 【Activities】 WebsiteHP They visited medical support activities and AIDS prevention ・Visit to the Institute of Radiation Safety education in the areas affected by the Chernobyl nuclear “BELRAD” accident, where WFWP Japanese volunteers for Belarus ・Participating in a class of Abstinence and have been active since 1995. Self-control education at the “Vitebsk State University“ ・Organizing an event to introduce Japanese culture ・Visit to the “Gomel Regional Children’s Hospital” ・Sisterhood ceremony between Japanese youths and Belarusian youths ・Sightseeing: the world heritage site “Nesvizh Castle”

With children of the Chechrsk 2nd School Sisterhood ceremony Experience of measurement of radioactivity in the body

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INDEX by Activity Category Educational Support Activities Literacy Classes 27 School Construction and Management 12-13, 16-17 Family Reconstruction Education 33 School Management／Support for School Management 14-15 Education through Media 34 Foster Parents Program／Scholarship Program 18-20 Trafficking Prevention 34 Producing Teachers  28-29  Character Education／Moral Education 30 AIDS Prevention Education 5-8 Sound Development of Youths 31 Art Education for Youths 32 Medical Assistance 9-11

Women’s Self-Help Support Activities Hygiene Instruction 35 Vocational Training School Construction and Management 21-24 Vocational Training 25 Ensuring the Use of Safe Water 35-36 Microfinance 3 Nutrition Guidance 4 Educational Support for Women’s Empowerment Literacy Classes Construction and Management 26 Youth Volunteers for International Cooperation 37

INDEX by Mission Country MAP ＆ INDEX

Middle East Eastern Europe 40 Afghanistan P20, P25 42 Belarus P8, P11, P37 41 Jordan P3, P20, P24, P31 43 Moldova P34 44 Russia P30, P32 45 Ukraine P11 44

40 41 35 Oceania 32 33 34 2 7 10 8 23 30 38 Solomon Islands P14 28 25 37 4 11 9 12 17 31 39 Micronesia P35 13 3 6 2 19 16 36 39 21 18 14 20 27 26

22 38 5 29 24

15 Central & South America 1 1 Argentina P8, P31 2 Belize P8 3 Costa Rica P30, P34 4 Honduras P19, P20, P31 5 Peru P33 6 Venezuela P32 Africa Asia Caribbean 14 Equatorial Guinea P13 ,P19 22 Malawi P19 30 Bangladesh P15, P27 7 Cuba P29 15 Eswatini P18 23 Mauritania P5,P19,P20,P32 31 Cambodia P18 8 Dominica P28 16 Ethiopia P19, P20, P27 24 Mozambique P16, P20 32 India P18 9 Dominican Republic P7 17 Gambia P20 25 Niger P9, P36 33 Laos P18 10 Haiti P26 18 Ghana P5, P19 26 Rwanda P19, P21 34 Myanmar P18, P23, P35 11 Jamaica P15 19 Guinea Bissau P12, P19 27 Sao Tome & Principe P25 35 Nepal P10, P18, P23 12 Saint Lucia P30 20 Kenya P6, P17, P19 28 Senegal P22 36 Sri Lanka P19, P20 13 Trinidad & Tobago P6 21 Liberia P14 29 Zambia P4, P20 37 Thailand P18, P35, P37

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