In an attempt to help evacuees from Ukraine due to the Russian military invasion, a group of 12 Japanese language schools nationwide will start a project to accept Ukrainian evacuees as free students and help them learn Japanese. became.
This project is started by the "Ukraine Student Support Association", which is made up of 12 schools including Seifu Institute of Information Technology in Osaka Prefecture and Japanese language schools in Tokyo and Kumamoto Prefecture.
In the project, each Japanese language school will accept people who evacuate from Ukraine to Japan due to the military invasion by Russia as students, and the school will bear the tuition fee, so we aim to accept a total of 100 people.
In addition, in order to support living expenses in Japan, we will conduct crowdfunding through the Internet and solicit donations.
The group is working with organizations that have helped to accept Syrian refugees, and is in talks with relevant ministries and agencies to ensure that evacuees can stay as international students.
Norito Hiraoka, the principal of the Seifu Institute of Information Technology and the representative of the "Ukraine Student Support Association," said, "I think Japanese language schools are accustomed to teaching foreigners from scratch and helping them in their daily lives." I'm talking to you.