Create Typing game with Dan
The Typing game team is creating a typing game.
New members have joined the team, and they are full of motivation.
We are planning to release this game in two months.
We are very much looking forward to the release.
Little By Little Campaign
[𝟮𝟰 𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦 𝗟𝗘𝗙𝗧]
"𝑵𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓."
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Sasha Lee Hagues-Seals from Legacy Foundation Japan and giving back.
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Today we had the pleasure of catching Sasha with a few spare minutes in her busy day of looking after everyone and talked about her work at Legacy Foundation Japan and how important it is to be grateful about where you are but even if someone takes one day to give back, that can make all the difference in the world for someone else. Read more…
They are different if ‘we’ label them to be: children with Disability in Japan
September 17, 2021 | By You Me We NPO
“All children deserve an education that will support them in reaching their full potential and permit them to become independent, contributing members of society.”
In Japan, children who have disabilities have customarily been educated in special schools, specifically devoted to one type of disability, and are often isolated from the rest of society (Mithout, 2016). According to 文部科学省, Read more…
Growing Up Without a Family
16 September, 2021 | By You Me We NPO
Every child deserves to live in a happy healthy family with love and support, yet “45,000 children in Japan were unsafe living with their birth parents in 2018” and the numbers keep rising [1]. Read more…
The Path to Ending Child Abuse in Japan
“Together, little by little we can help make a difference.”
15 September, 2021 | By You Me We NPO
When abuse results in death, we cannot turn a blind eye any longer, as adults who are capable of making real changes and have far more rights in choices, it is essential that we make sensible decisions, knowing its impact. In 2020, Read more…
The Hidden Abuse of Japan’s Children
September 14, 2021 | By You Me We NPO
“Children have always taken a back seat to adults’ interests in Japan. That has to change.” - Yasuhisa Shiozaki
All children deserve to be protected and be entitled to a healthy life, yet for thousands of Japanese children, this notion is only a dream.
In Japan, one of the biggest issues to date deals with the neglect and abuse of children. Despite ranking 19th in the 2019 UN Human Development Index Ranking and possessing one of the strongest economies, the country’s implementation of child protection is severely lacking. While developed countries place the majority of abused and neglected children in foster homes, Japan takes an alternative approach. Read more…
Figure 1.2.2 Number of Reported Child Abuse Cases (H2-H26 = 1990-2014)（厚生労働省, 2014)
Artwork by YouMeWe's Ambassadors
Artwork done by one of the Ambassadors for the game they are creating. Drawn on his iPad.
Little By Little Campaign
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Organize YouMeWe Warehouse
This Saturday, we organized the YouMeWe warehouse! We have a new warehouse manager, so we handing the job over to her.
YouMeWe Ambassadors
Our team working on a presentation to a donor company that they will give. The history of the NPO, statistics around the population we support. Two Ambassadors will join to share their own stories; one placed in care as a newborn and another from 12 years old. Then they did a cross comparison to the companies home country of Italy. Italy has half the population of Japan as a country. They have 28,000 in care vs 45,000+ however 50% are in Foster Care while Japan has roughly 33%.
Drawing Contest 2021
The first of the Designing Artists Academy 2021 Summer Drawing Contests submissions arrived from Sendai.
Podcast with Dr. Lois Holzman and Dr. Makiko Kishi
Today we were so fortunate to have Dr.Lois Holzman who founded the East Side Institute in New York and Dr.Makiko Kishi of Meiji University join us to talk about how to help people ask for help and help themselves.
Approaching problems with their toolkit. Not trying to solve problems for the population we work with but rather letting them be part of the solution. For some problems (issues in life) we need to make new tools and not only try to use tools we already have.
Going against the grain and realizing you get better at doing things when you do them with other people, some of whom are better at it than you. East Side Institute
Gucci & YouMeWe
Very proud of the team today who prepared and presented at Gucci about YouMeWe and the population we support.
make a typing game！
This is a picture of the team working to build a new type of typing educational software. Today we talked about art we will use for the project
Building our own…
At YOUMEWE we are working to develop educational software that will help Japanese speakers develop their typing and computer literacy skills. As English speakers we often taken for granted how easy it is for us to sit down in front of a computer and start using every application right away. When we started to teach computer programming lessons at YOUMEWE it became obvious that simple functions and inputs in English became very complicated difficult functions in Japanese. A simple word like "user" becomes an advanced kanji ( user- 利用者 (りようしゃ)). This presents some major problems for young learners trying to use the computer for the first time. An even bigger problem people learning computer literacy face in Japan is a very complex input method for typing Japanese. Typing in Japanese involves typing English romaji with some extra rules for special articles, like u う needs to be written as lu / xu ぅto get the smaller article. To input more advanced Kanji the users often need to find the kanji they are looking for in a long drop down list. Navigating that list of Kanji and knowing how to find what you want is almost a whole additional skill that Japanese speakers need to learn in order to become fully computer literate. Because of all this added complexity it is common for Japanese people to start using computers at a much older age than their, English speaking counter parts. At YOUMEWE we are developing a new type of Educational software to help jump start computer literacy at a younger age and help lower the barrier of entry for all computer literacy learners in Japan.
YouMeWe CodeClub Meetings.
This is a meeting by YouMeWe's Code Club team. On this day, we confirmed our tasks as a team and discussed the direction of future events.
