Reopening of school Resume telephone consultations for children's worries Yokohama June 1, 18:40
With the cancellation of the emergency declaration and the reopening of schools in various places, in Yokohama City, an NPO corporation that accepts children's trouble consultations resumed activities from the 1st.
NPO corporation "Yokohama child line" of Yokohama-shi accepting trouble consultation over the telephone for children under 18 years old has many volunteer staff who go from afar, and activity was suspended from April, but 1 The day has resumed.
When resuming, we halved the number of phone-enabled volunteers and took measures such as disinfecting the phone each time and avoiding sharing.
On the first day, when the phone resumed at 4 pm, the two volunteers in charge listened to the voices of the children.
As of March, before the activity was suspended, there were consultations such as "I'm afraid of continuous corona-related news," "I miss my friends," and "I was scared of my mother."
Yumiko Noto, Executive Director of the “Yokohama Child Line,” said, “I think the school is restarting, and we are beginning to feel anxiety about our new lifestyle and environment. I want to take it carefully. "