[ Seoul Yeomchang Elementary School BaNaSe personality & sharing education (October, 2016) ]
”Is there any way to conduct personality education for children in a sustainable way and to help children internalize what they learn?”
”Is there any way to actually feel the value of the right action people take?”
With these two questions in mind, HUMAN IN LOVE started a personality & sharing education program called BaNaSe (I, who have upright character, become a world citizen) three years ago. From the very beginning of this program, all of the students in Seoul Yeomchang Elementary School have joined BaNaSe program. On October 13, we met the first graders of this school.
We set our personality/sharing goals with our teachers and friends.
On this day, Seoul Yeomchang Elementary School students were taking BaNaSe classes under the theme of “The Right Action that I Think (first and second grade)” and “Personality Virtues in October: Manners (third-sixth grade)”
[ A student is talking about right actions. ]
”I’m going to compliment my friends on what they’re good at.”
”I will not scream and run on the hallway.”
”I’m going to help my mom do chores and fold the laundry.”
Students in first grade were enthusiastically talking about the actions that they think are right with shining eyes and others listening carefully to them gave those presenters a big applause. We told first graders about Rwandan children who can’t go to school because of poverty, and the students wrote letters on a moneybox, hoping that those Rwandan children can go to school.
[ A student is writing a letter on a BaNaSe moneybox. ]
At home, we talk about personality with parents.
Every day, students taking BaNaSe program talk with their parents about how they practice their personality goals. Every time they achieve one of their personality goals, they get a compliment sticker and some pocket money from their parents, and they put the sticker on a BaNaSe money box and save money there.
[ Seoul Yeomchang Elementary School students sent their money box after completing BaNaSe program. ]
Where would BaNaSe money boxes go?
With the money that the students of Seoul Yeomchang Elementary School have saved through BaNaSe program, HUMAN IN LOVE will buy school uniforms for Rwanda’s elementary school students living in poverty.
In most of African countries, students are required to wear uniforms for management purposes. In Rwanda, school uniforms cost around 15,000 Korean won. One of the major reasons students living in poverty can’t go to school is because they can’t buy school uniforms. In fact, an education official in Rweru region told us that, after HUMAN IN LOVE donated school uniforms for students in three elementary schools from this January to February, the school registration rate has increased 30% from the previous year.
[ Thanks to BaNaSe donation from Seoul Yeomchang Elementary School, school uniforms were delivered to the students of Muyange Primary School in Burudi. (September, 2015) ]
While conducting a BaNaSe program in 2014 and 2015, Seoul Yeomchang Elementary School has provided tuition to its students from low-income family and school uniforms for the students of Muyange Primary School in Burudi.
Seoul Yeomchang Elementary School student’s idea was reflected in the design of BaNaSe money box.
At first, there was no image on the top of BaNaSe money box. But we saw one student drawing a human face on the top. Out of this idea, we put a character on the top of the money box, and thanks to the student’s idea, more fun could be added to that saving money.
[ Before the design was changed (Left), After the design was changed (Right) BaNaSe money box ]
BaNaSe (I, who have upright character, become a world citizen) – BaNaSe!!
Please keep rooting for ‘BaNaSe’ that encourages people to develop upright character and become a world citizen through sharing. Thank you.
