The JICA Kansai visit, now in its third year, was held on August 20, at the end of the summer vacation.
This year, in addition to our students, students from Kobe University Senior High School and Osaka Prefectural Yao High School, two of the domestic partner high schools belonging to the WWL (World Wide Learning) Consortium Project Regional AL Network, also participated.
In addition, three Osaka Kyoiku University teacher training international students and exchange students (from Brazil, Nigeria, and Malawi), as well as a smart university student studying to become teachers at Osaka Kyoiku University as an interpreter participated.
In total, 40 of us visited JICA Kansai together.
The international students are familiar with JICA activities in their home countries, especially Rafael from Brazil, who had studied in a Japanese language class taught by a JICA volunteer Japanese language teacher in his hometown in Brazil, was very much looking forward to this visit.

This year, JICA Volunteer experience was presented by a nurse who was dispatched to Kampong Cham Province in Cambodia.
She explained about her activities, the social situation in Cambodia, and people's lives, showing many colorful pictures.
During the Q&A session, not only students but also international students raised their hands to ask questions to learn about Cambodian society.
It was a very good orientation for the students who will participate in the “Cambodia Study Tour” scheduled to be held in December this year.

Students who participated in the program have given many positive feedback about the visit such as,
“I have never lived abroad, so I learned a lot from today’s visit.”
”It was a very fulfilling program and I had a lot of fun. I enjoyed the program very much,” .