大学一年生のとき単位もロクに取らず遊び過ぎた日々を反省し何か意味がある事をしようと思ってなんとなく始めたのが児童養護施設での学習ボランティアでした。週に一度担当の子に勉強を教えに行くというもの。ボランティアとか自分のキャラに合わないからと家族以外に一切秘密で行っていたことが今思うと笑いです。
そうして卒業までの三年間活動を続けた中で施設やその環境の現状に疑問を抱くようになりました。心に傷が多くよりケアが必要な子供達ばかりを相手にするには職員さんの人数が少な過ぎます。そして自分にとって一番親しい相手を名字で『○○さん』と呼ぶ幼い子たち。抱っこしてもらいたくても人数がたくさんいるからなかなか順番が回ってこない状況。
子供は自分に注目されたいものだし、誰かに寄り添っててもらいたいものです。その状況を垣間見て私は一人一人に目が届く家族単位で子供を育てられる里親制度養子縁組制度の環境が整えられたら…と思うようになりました。
ぐるーんさんとの出会いは、私が司法書士の資格を取得してからのこと。児童養護施設への問題意識はずっとあって司法書士になってから司法書士としてそのような活動のお手伝いができればと考えていたときたまたまぐるーんさんの活動を知りました。
現在は神奈川青年司法書士協議会の活動として児童養護施設に行き法律教室なども開催しています。施設の子供たちにこんな事を気をつけなきゃとか法律上のアドバイスを紙芝居やパネルを使って説明する活動です。
今後司法書士としてまた個人としてぐるーんさんの活動に貢献してゆけたらと考えています。
Here is a message from Ms. Nanako Hayami, one of Grunn sponsors. She is a Judicial Scrivener and helps Gruun activities.
It was my freshman year at university that I started out with some tutoring volunteer at a child-welfare facility. Since I fooled around spending too many days in vain without getting enough credits, I regretted, and wanted to do some meaningful task. That was to go there once a week to teach a kid, for whom I was in charge. I was, except for my family, hiding of going there telling people that doing that type of volunteer work isn't what I seek particularly, so I kept it in secret. When I think of this now, I cannot help but laugh it away.
During the course of my three year continuous activities up to my graduation, I started to doubt about the facilities and the current circumstances surrounding those. The first thing I noticed is that there are too little staff provided to take care of children who are all mentally hurt. And fact that small children even call the staff members (who are supposed to close to them) by surnames (with -san added). The children are too many for the numbers of staff there. Their turns to be picked up for dacco don't come often.
Chldren want attention and need somebody to nestle close with them. When I saw this, I began to think that it would be great if we come up with some system of foster-parents/adopted children that could bring up the children in one-to-one family unit, by which attention hopefully goes to every child.
My encounter with Gruun started after I obtained the national qualification for Judicial Srivener. Ever since becoming Judicial Srivener, I still had a prolonged awareness of the issue and wanted to contribute my help to such an activity as Judicial Scrivener, then I happened to get to know the Gruun's activities
As one of the activities of Adult Judicial Scriveners Association of Kanagawa Pref., we hold legal classes at infant-welfare facilities. It's an activity of teaching and explaning some legal advices to children there abour cautions, to which that they have to pay attention ----by using drawing panels or story-telling cardboards.
Hereafter, I would like to contribute to the Grunn activities as a Judicial Scrivener and an individual person as well.