Promotion of education and fostering multicultural friendships: these are the heart of Education Programs. The three sub-groups Foreign Students Circle, Volunteers for the Visually Impaired and English Outreach for Children have been providing fun-filled worthwhile programs for decades.
Foreign Students Circle (FSC) events help foreign students gain a deeper understanding of Japanese culture and customs. FSC is a wonderful opportunity for CWAJ members as well as foreign students to learn about Japanese culture and customs while making friends with CWAJ members and other international students.
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Volunteers for the Visually Impaired (VVI) activities are diverse: weekly English conversation classes at Japan Vocational Development Center for the Blind and Low Vision (JVDCB) for VI adults seeking jobs; English Conversation Gatherings for visually impaired people to enjoy cross-cultural programs in English; Tsukuba Mock Interview Program for visually impaired high-school students (THS) to practice for the Eiken English proficiency test, a one-on-one English conversation program between native English speaking (CWAJ) volunteers and THS students (English Conversation Partners (ECP) ); and the CWAJ/VVI Newsletter that is distributed in Braille, large print and by e-mail three times a year.
English Outreach for Children (EOC) makes monthly visits to St Joseph Children’s Home to provide fun-in-English programs for young children. Programs are planned around a book, with post-reading activities, crafts, games and singing. The Home, located in Nishi Tokyo City, Western Tokyo, was originally founded by a Catholic missionary in 1946 to foster war orphans.
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