A happy new year 2019 greeting from FMYY program “KOBE bridging Japan & Africa through ICT” vol.19 in ENGLISH



On the first and second Saturdays from 4pm to 4:30 in Japanese and from 4:30 to 5pm in English, KIC students from Africa share their stories about what has surprised them once in Kobe, Japan, what they have found out through their life there, and other things they found intriguing and mind-blowing in Kobe or in Japan in general.
The first broadcast in 2019 starts with two people, the main personality.
Personality is Funayama Project Manager of Kobe Information Graduate School University (left side: Participating in NGO activities etc. in Africa etc.) and Senda sensei (right side: Graduated from Osaka graduate school of Osaka graduate, architect)

This time’s broadcast started from the story of the earthquaqe in Hanshin-Awaji, looking back at the time.

They are looking back on the disaster, and talking about what they were doing at that time.

And Professor NSENDA talks about the event “Africa meets Kansai” sponsored for many years, continuing in Kansai and Kobe due to the experiences of the earthquake disaster.

Finally, they are reporting on the situation of human resource development project in Rwanda and efforts of this New Year.

Japan (Official guide)
https://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/

Kobe city in Japan
http://plus.feel-kobe.jp/

Graduate School of Information Technology Kobe Institute of Computing
https://www.kic.ac.jp/en/