国際支援NGO
About
We are all the same!
We are a Japanese kids group has been supporting children in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
In 2020, we met Rohingya people who live in the same town and learned that Rohingya people are severely persecuted and nearly 1 million people are living in refugee camps in Bangladesh. We started a crowdfunding campaign to help the Rohingya people and to see if there was anything we could do to support them. We have raised over 4 million yen through two crowdfunding campaigns.
The recipient is a school in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
So far, we have completed 9 rounds of support including textbooks, stationery, blankets, computers, bags, umbrellas, and school repairs, and are currently preparing for our 10th support.
In February 2023, we visited the refugee camp and handed over the support items such as soccer balls, toys, stationaries.
We would like to continue our support activities so that they can have hope for the future.
Awards:
・Citizen of the Year Award（2021,Citizen Watch Co., Ltd.）
・Creative Award in the "Future Creation Competition for Everyone" （2022,Youth UNHCR）
・ Gunma International Exchange Award（2023,Gunma Prefecture Japan）
・the Encouragement Prize at the GIA Gunma Innovation Award（2023,Gunma Prefecture Japan）
Our Activity Report
Our Funding Projects
【History of Our challenges】
We challenged a two-month crowdfunding campaign to support children living in Rohingya refugee camps from August 25 to October 25, 2020.
Our initial goal was 100,000 yen (CA$1000), but within 2 months, we received 3056,000 yen from 1118 people! It is thanks to those who supported our activities that we were able to gather such a large amount of support.
Many newspapers and radios came to talk to us, and more people got to know about Rohingya issues. We are very happy that we could raise people's awareness. Once they know, they will not forget.
Out second funding project didnt reach as high as our first challenge, still reached 1,000,000 yen. (About CA$10,000)
Between the first and second funding projects, the wars began and the world has many more problems.
We learned a very important lesson. People may not forget but their priority change over time. It is not tht the people care less, because we know that they do.
This is why we must continue our activities or raising awareness, and keep raising voices.
Our reason to help
Have you ever heard of a refugee named Rohingya?
Well we didn't know about them. But there are actually a lot of Rohingya people living in Tatebayashi City in Gunma Prefecture, where we live.
90% of the all Rohingya people in Japan live in my town.
We met one of those Rohingya, Aung Tin, and he told us stories about Rohingya people living in refugee camps in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
All of these stories are really terrible.
We heard about houses being burned down, massacred, children being sold, and so on.
I don't understand why people are selling people, and how they became refugees in the first place.
It's too unreasonable.
And I started thinking about what we could do to help.
And I heard that the Rohingya children love to play soccer. I felt closer to them.
But they play soccer in a refugee camp.
Their feet are barefoot.
・Have we got enough soccer balls?
・They'd be safer with shoes on, too.
・Can they have some fun?
That's how I felt.
We think there is something we can do to help.
Yes we are just bunch of kids, but even so.
That's how I set up this site.
You can participate in it by donating to the big UN, but we are in need of help children of our generation who are struggling in refugee camps.
We want to do what we can do to help them.