Introduction of Club Activities
Habitat for Humanity
Kaori Sawada (Graduate of 2011)
I have been part of Habitat for Humanity since freshman year and have conducted various activities. There are a number of teams in the club. For instance, there are teams who build houses, participate in the GV, sustain people who live in the garbage mountain in the Philippines, support orphanages in Bangladesh, night watch, offer study groups, and etc. There is also the international supporting team, which inaugurated when I was a junior (June 2009). We are constantly looking for ways to perform international support within Japan. Out of all the activities, we decided on the ecology camp drive because it was the easiest and would report the things sent as a receipt. What the ecology camp drive does is that it
Recycling box that was set up
in the underground lounge in
Meitokukan Building
delivers bottle caps to the recycling factory and donates the collected money to the NPO for vaccine shots. Our purpose is to provide vaccines to countries that are in shortage. Incidentally, about 800 bottle caps make one polio vaccine.
When the club first started, we did a presentation at Saga Middle School, where the members graduated, and broadened the ecology camp drive at the memberfs work place. We have continued our activity with a goal of setting up the ecology camp drive at Doshisha University. We drew up a proposal in April and were able to set up 8 recycling boxes at school in July 2010 after negotiating with the student-supporting department a few times. We worked together with the Environmental Problem Association because they had the same plan in mind, and as a result, we were given a fixed period of time to place the recycling boxes from July to December. We were also able to set them up during the 3 days of Doshisha Eve. We, the international supporting team, will do our best to spread the ecology camp drive to young children so they will be become more conscious about the environment and foreign countries. AIESEC has 60 years of
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