Hello,
My name is Theo. I am coming to APFS as
a volunteer since April 2012.
I want to study about the migrations
to Japan, so I came here as an exchange student. Spending time, talking,
working together with the people of APFS, who try to find solutions for the
foreigners living here, it is a very rich experience. Whether they have the
right visa or not, foreigners are treated not as such but as human beings, and
I feel it is a very good thing.
There are many legal regulations. But
if you try to hold together with the foreigners that can be lost in the maze of
the laws, regulations, and a sometimes very unfriendly society, we can make a
better society !
If you don’t have the right paper, I realized daily life can become
extremely difficult. I never had trouble with getting a cell phone, getting
registered or daily life matters, thanks to my foreign student visa. But,
listening to the stories of people in different situations, I realized that it
was not so easy for other people. Finding an apartment, a job, divorce,
cellphone, a lot a things of very difficult.
While I’m in Japan, I don’t want to do research in an office. I want to be on the
field, to grasp the situation.
So, as
much as I can, I want to participate in finding solutions with this
association, and with the people living here.
