Days from Past to future as human

In Younger days, I felt loneliness everyday.

But it is just from inside of my mind.

I did not open my heart to others so I felt loneliness.

I actually suffered from showing the REAL me.

in those days, I felt loneliness and lost the meaning of life.

(Sometime, I tried to commit suicide...But I could not fortunately)

Since then, I had been looking for the answer of life.

when I entered the university, I attended Model UN Club.

Model UN gave me the various things.

especially, it promotes to open my heart.

in MUN, I got to know the issue of CHAILD SOLDIERS.

I got huge shock.

only 9 age girl and boy was kidnapped and forced to kill.

And they were took away the time for school.

then, they lost the way to live without using AK-47.

(it is hard to live on without literacy.)

I got huge shock.

when I was in Junior High School, my life is enough.

there are much of safety.

But I tried to commit suicide... I felt shame and thought what I can do for CHANGE such unfair world.

then, I started to spread the fact of world.

I thought the answer of life is to be made by individual value.

My Value in life is to increase people's smile as much as I can.

So I decided to commit social issue as my lifework.

The Life and matter

this is the letter to my friends.

I just share it with you in this blog.

Dear Friends,

the reason I joined this activities is little long story.

it takes back to around 10 years ago.

when I was in secondary school, I tried to commit suicide unfortunately.

in that time, I always felt loneliness and could not find the value of life.

fortunately, I could not stop my life.

but then, I started to think the answer of my life."why am I living and where will I go after dearth?"

6 years later, I entered university.

And I joined Model United Nations Club which is club to discuss global issue.

at Summer Semester, we discussed the issue on the right of Children.

during the preparation for discussion, I studied child Soldiers.

the story of these children were quite terrible.

one 6 years old kid in Sierra Leone was kidnaped from village.

when he was kidnapped, he was forced to cut his mothers hand by a axe.

the armed group made him to do for the reason that they wanted to delete the place he can return.

after kidnapped, he got training to be soldier.

there is no choices without obeying them.

some time, he was forced to eat internal organs of friends who tried to run away but could not do.

this also made him to stay at camp.
12 years later, he became soldier who committed homicide and rape.

and he was no longer "Child" Soldier because he became 18 years old.

when the war ended, he could not understand what he should do in peace world.

he had no opportunity to study because the conflict took his time to study away.

he could not integrate the society. he need special mental care.

but UN and government could not take care due to limited finance.

then, he automatically moved to neighbor countries to join the armed group like the one that had kidnapped him.

people did not regard him as victim, but killer.

when I read this story and found 300 thousands child soldier, I really shocked the fact.

and compared with their stories, my childhood was totally peace even though I tried to commit suicide. I looked back my feeling to have tried to commit suicide. there was just lack of communication and I felt little shame.

then, I though I would like to change the situation. but I was just student in that time.

I thought what I could do. I found what I could do was to share the fact with students as much as I could. fortunately, I was president of Students Organization which had over 1000 people. I started to share.

but we needed to know the issue before sharing someone. so I went to several seminar on various issues. during seminars, I found terrible fact of other issues and all issues linked each other. in same time, I got good networks with people who work in UN, NGO, the Ministry of Foreign Affair, Media and others during seminars.

these human networks gave me the opportunity to join social activities. for example, there was G8 Summit in Japan, 2008. I, as one of core members, organized World Youth Forum for G8 Summit. I was really active in that time.

Oxfam Japan had petition campaign in same time. they asked me to cooperate with them on spreading. I cooperated with them and got over 600 petitions.

then, they asked me to join G8 Campaign during G8 Summit as temporary member.

yeah, I just went there and cooperated with them, although I was student.

these experience made me the way of living.

I found I would like to make smile of others as much as I can. I would like to make the world that everyone can enjoy.

I also found this is what I would do in my life and it means making the value.

fortunately, these experience and networks worked good. several NGOs gave me job offers when I finished my study in University.

so now, I am working at Oxfam.

this is my story.

sorry it is little long one, although I passed several parts.

now I strongly believe the world can be changed if we hope.

Mahatoma Gandhi said "Be the change you wish too see in the world".

so I am keep moving as much as I can.

thanks,

Yoichi

Why AIESEC? Why MUN?

people tend to use why .....

but almost value is to be made by you.

it is not to be given in advance.

we need to think the vision that is given in advance and set it in our mind again.

then, we can make the practical plan to maximize goals toward its vision.

and people called these process "Strategic"!!

Hospitality-Vision and Practice-

as you know, I have managed events over 20 times and join events over 1oo times during my university days.

these experiences tells that there are two type of event.

the one is the event for guest and society.

this type of event is generally based on the Vision, what they want to provide in event as opportunity.

and The Vision should be social value. if not, there is no meaning.

if their vision have social value, it is so easy to make good event.

they makes the event according to the way to maximize that the participants get what they want to provide.

according to vision, host side just pick up necessary contents.

they always think social impact of the event.

and the event is one of the tool to change the participants.

this event is tool to set new value in participants.

*it is also important to share good impact with all participants without unfair.

in the other hand, there are many event for host side.

some host people worked for themselves, not for guests, like inside event.

some NGOs, Youth Organizations and Universities did these event unfortunately.

we must not forget our responsibility to make the participants fun.

and we need to keep providing the value in each event.

yeah, I also know it is hard to practice according to vision.

although I understood the difficulty of preparation, too much logistics and financial challenging, we must not forget our responsibility. to make a relationship with society always need responsibility.

and we can make a value after we keep responsibility.