中高等部
JICA協力隊60周年式典での本校生徒スピーチ / GKA Student Speech at the JICA Volunteer 60th Anniversary Ceremony
2025年11月13日（木）、国際協力機構（JICA）の海外協力隊発足60周年記念式典が東京国際フォーラムで開かれ、本校から高等部2年の大津里穂さんが次世代の代表として登壇し、協力隊への思いを話しました。
式典における天皇陛下のお言葉、本校11年生大津里穂さんのスピーチは下記リンクよりご覧いただけます。ぜひともご覧ください。
天皇陛下のお言葉：
https://www.youtube.com/live/X
本校11年生 大津里穂（次世代からのメッセージ）：
https://www.youtube.com/live/X
以下、大津さんからのメッセージです。
「両陛下のご臨席のもと、3,000人の前でスピーチという貴重な機会をいただき光栄でした。式典後、両陛下とのご懇談会にもお招きいただきました。JICA高崎分室での職場体験や、トビタテ留学JAPAN９期生として行ったルワンダ留学のお話をさせていただき、お言葉をいただきました。
私がJICAに関心を持ったのは、６年生のときに参加したPre-MYPという中高等部の先輩による放課後クラスです。SDGゴール１７のパートナーシップについてリサーチして発表したことがきっかけでした。また、JICAエッセイのテーマの地域の外国籍のこどもたちの教育に関心をもったのは、８年生の地理の課題です。自分が何もできないもどかしさを伝えましたが、その後、自分にもできることを見つけて、大泉町のブラジル人の子どもたちにバイオリンを教えながら一緒に音楽を楽しんでいます。そして、ルワンダ留学を計画したのは、学校で放課後に開催されたルワンダ講演会で、義肢装具士ルダシングワ真美さんとの出会いがきっかけでした。
今回の貴重な経験を励みに、今後もGKAでの学びを大切にしていきたいと思います。
I was truly honored to have the opportunity to deliver a speech in front of 3,000 people in the presence of Their Majesties. Following the ceremony, I was further humbled to be invited to a private audience with Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress, where I shared my experiences from the JICA Takasaki Office workplace program and my study abroad in Rwanda as a Tobitate! scholar. I am deeply grateful for Their Majesties’ warm and encouraging words.
My interest in JICA began in Grade 6, when I joined Pre-MYP, an after-school class led by senior students, and researched SDG 17: Partnerships. My concern for the education of foreign children in my community began in Grade 8 through a geography assignment. Although I once felt frustrated at knowing about local issues but not being able to help, I later found something I could do: teaching the violin and enjoying music with Brazilian children in Oizumi-machi. Later, a school lecture by Ms. Mami Rudasingwa, a prosthetist and orthotist working in Rwanda, inspired me to plan my own study abroad in Rwanda. I will continue to deepen my learning at GKA.」
On Thursday, November 13, 2025, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) held the 60th Anniversary Ceremony of the JICA Overseas Cooperation Volunteers at the Tokyo International Forum. From our school, Riho Otsu, a Grade 11 student, took the stage as a representative of the next generation and shared her thoughts on the JICA Volunteer program.
You can view His Majesty the Emperor’s remarks and Riho Otsu’s speech from the links below. We encourage you to watch them.
Remarks by His Majesty the Emperor:
https://www.youtube.com/live/X2i3hT12jEg&t=1022s
Message from the Next Generation – Riho Otsu (GKA Grade 11):
https://www.youtube.com/live/X2i3hT12jEg?t=2160s
Below is a message from Ms. Otsu.
“I was truly honored to have the opportunity to deliver a speech in front of 3,000 people in the presence of Their Majesties. Following the ceremony, I was further humbled to be invited to a private audience with Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress, where I shared my experiences from the JICA Takasaki Office workplace program and my study abroad in Rwanda as a Tobitate! scholar. I am deeply grateful for Their Majesties’ warm and encouraging words.
My interest in JICA began in Grade 6, when I joined Pre-MYP, an after-school class led by senior students, and researched SDG 17: Partnerships. My concern for the education of foreign children in my community began in Grade 8 through a geography assignment. Although I once felt frustrated at knowing about local issues but not being able to help, I later found something I could do: teaching the violin and enjoying music with Brazilian children in Oizumi-machi. Later, a school lecture by Ms. Mami Rudasingwa, a prosthetist and orthotist working in Rwanda, inspired me to plan my own study abroad in Rwanda. I will continue to deepen my learning at GKA.”
