– Support to cultivate vegetables in the Mangaten Camp 1 (Part 2) – [Original by Takaki IMAI, President (October 25, 2018); Translated by K. Adachi/S. Altman] This time we will introduce a discussion with the camps women about the distribution of agricultural tools and management. Distribution of agricultural tools Well, finally it’s the distribution day. We served as volunteers for the women in the camp and lined up the agricultural tools and watering cans in sets and gave them the sets one by one. For the distribution, staff from the Relief Reconstruction Committee (RRC) of the South Sudan government attended but to our surprise, the staff helped the distribution as…
Muhammad in Gaza
A 10-year old boy undergoing periodic hospitalization for anticancer treatment in Jerusalem away from his family [Original by Yoriko YAMAMURA, Palestine Project (January 10, 2019); Translated by M. Kanai/S. Altman] Hello. My name is Yamamura and I’m serving as a representative at the JVC Jerusalem Office. Today, I would like to introduce an article written by Ms. Hiromoto who’s working as an assistant in our office. About half a year ago, we received an urgent message from a woman who’s a member of an organization collaborating with JVC in our operation in the Gaza Strip about her relative, Muhammad. He was to be admitted to a hospital in East Jerusalem…
Staff Interview: Takayuki YAMAMOTO (Sudan Project)
[Original by Risa FUJII, 2018 Public Relations Intern/Takako NASU, 2018 Webpage Analysis Intern (December 25, 2018); Translated by S. Altman] Hello, everyone! I am Fujii, the 2018 Public Relations Intern. This time, in the second round of staff interviews in 2018, I interviewed Takayuki Yamamoto, our local staff worker in Sudan. Mr. Yamamoto started at JVC in April of 2018 and was assigned to Sudan in October of the same year however; this interview was held while he still worked at the Tokyo office before his transfer. Mr. Yamamoto is the epitome of a Kansai person and the life of the party, always making people laugh. Usually he is very…
Activity report from January to June 2018 (3)
– Support to cultivate vegetables in the Mangaten Camp 1 (Part 1) – [Original by Takaki IMAI, President (October 5, 2018); Translated by K. Adachi/S. Altman] Making a list of family-owned home vegetable gardens When we visited the Mangaten Camp 1 in March, Peter, the camp leader spoke to us with a serious face, “We are in trouble because of the extreme shortage of water, food, and medicine”. The organization which had supported the water supply and medicine so far has finished its activity and withdrawn. Additionally, we heard that people had been displaced from home because of the battle that occurred in the northern part of the country from…
LETTING CHILDREN GO TO SCHOOL – On the Support for Birth Registration –
[Original by Reiko KOBAYASHI, Sudan Project (November 20, 2018); Translated by Y. Nakamura/S. Altman] Hello to our regular JVC supporters. The cool season (from December to February) is approaching and it will get colder soon, so I now feel that daily life will become easier in Sudan. It is now around 20 to 25 degrees in the morning and evening in Kadugli, South Kordofan Province in the southern area of Sudan. A local staff member said one morning, “I’ve caught a cold because I slept with the doors open”. She was blowing her nose all day long that day. Now, I would like to report on JVC’s latest activities. More…
MR. MEHRAB KHAN’S LIFE
[Original by Sabirullah MEMLAWAL/Maki KATO, Afghanistan Project (December 11, 2018); Translated by Y. Miki/S. Altman] Here, I would like to talk about the story of Mr. Mehrab Khan. We are both from the Khogynai District and met each other more than 20 years ago. It was around the time when the Taliban controlled the political power here. According to the people in his village, he was very wealthy and had a great life working in the wood business as a timber merchant since his village was in a mountainous area. Although, I didn’t see him that often, he still seemed really happy. After this period of peace, the new government…
FROM A FEARFUL CHILD TO A RESPONSIBLE WOMAN: THE JOURNEY OF TABLW, A VOLUNTEER IN INSAN AND PEACE YARD
[Ghamra RIFAI, Iraq Project (January 24, 2019)] Tablw Nozad Tayib, a junior high school graduate Kurdish volunteer, was born in 1993 in Kirkuk and currently lives there in the Raheem Aawa district. Tablw lives with her five-member family which consists of her parents and three siblings. Her sister, Tania, is a sixth grade student and her brother, Towana, does not go to school. Tablw lived a difficult life of deprivation and pain, her father was a taxi driver and was barely able to make ends meet. She said, “we lived in a rented place and because of our bad economic situation my siblings and I had to drop out of…
Activity report from January to June 2018 (2)
– Support children to attend school in the Mangaten domestic refugee camp (Distribution of school goods in an elementary school) – [Original by Takaki IMAI, President (August 28, 2018); Translated by K. Adachi/S. Altman] There is an elementary school for the children of refugees in Camp 1. The roof of the classrooms is built of galvanized iron sheets and the walls are made of bamboo material. There are 6 classes, one for preschool children and five for children up to the 5th grade. We have visited families inside the camp with the help of teachers in January and made a list of 300 children including those who hadn’t attended school.…
Activity report from January to June 2018 (1)
Introduction – What is the Mangaten domestic refugee camp? – [Original by Takaki IMAI, President (August 23, 2018); Translated by K. Adachi/S. Altman] JVC continues activities in the Mangaten domestic refugee camp in the suburb of the capital of South Sudan, Juba. Presently, no Japanese staff resides in the local office because of security issues, but we correspond with local South Sudanese staff and continue business trips from Japan in order to carry on the operation. This time I report the status of our activities from January to June in 2018. What is the Magaten domestic refugee camp? Mangaten is located in the north of the Munuki district, which is…
INTRODUCTION OF ON-SITE STAFF MEMBERS 2018
[Original from the JVC’s News Letter “Trial & Error” vol. 330 (Spring issue, 2018); Translated by N. Mizutani] We work together with a number of local staff in our overseas offices. Here we introduce them with their memories of the biggest events they had in 2017. The following on-site staff are as of March 2018. Afghanistan Ajmal Khuram (Education coordinator) I visited India with my mother. This was her first time to travel by air. We enjoyed living spending time with Indian people who have totally different culture and religions. Abdul Wahab (Program coordinator) We hope this year will be a peaceful year for Afghanistan and that armed groups…
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