Introduction of Club Activities
SIVIO
Kazuma Yamamura (Faculty of Economics, 3rd year)
SIVIO is an international cooperation team for students. In this organization, we work for “educational support for Laos” and “organizing charity movement among students” as concepts of our activities. It started in July 2007 and has reached four years since then. SIVIO is divided up into 3 places, which are Kansai, Kanto, and Tokai areas. As of now, in the Kansai area, there are 15 colleges with around 40 members working together to organize the projects in SIVIO with students from Doshisha and Ritsumeikan Universities playing the major roles. We do charity events, such as dance shows and fashion shows as well as collecting donations on the streets twice a month, setting up collection boxes in Kyoto restaurants and participating in flea markets. We do all this to collect money to support the education in Laos and inform people about our SIVIO works. From everyone’s support, we were able to build our second elementary school in Wanhin Village. During spring and summer, our members actually visit that elementary school to see the condition of it. Even though we don’t have any status and money, we eradicate the strict image of volunteer and charity, and we work in a way that only students could do. SIVIO is a place where we value the relationship and the opportunity among the people we meet, and each of our members find meaning in our works. At the same time, we can improve ourselves in each other’s presence. Our motto is that to enjoy connects to charity. We hope that SIVIO would be the “opportunity” for many people. There are no national boundaries to the connection between smiles. We are just born in different countries. We hope that our thoughts and feeling will reach.
At Con Village, Laos
