Noro Community High School in Western Province will be representing Solomon Islands at the 2024 JENESYS Program.
The composition of the delegation consists of five year eleven (11) students and one (1) supervising staff.
The delegation will leave on Tuesday 11th March, 2025 and will return on Thursday 20th March 2025.
The “2024 Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths” (2024 JENESYS Program) is a people-to-people exchange program launched by the Government of Japan in 2015 between Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
The two main objectives of the program are;
(1)To enhance the interest in and understanding of Japan among talented young people from other countries and regions; and
(2) To promote understanding of Japan’s politics, economy, society, culture, history, and foreign policy in accordance with the participants’ interests.
In this year’s program Solomon Islands will be joining seven other pacific island countries; Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Samoa, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Niue and Palau.
The program will be held in Japan (Tokyo City, Oita and Kochi Prefectures) from March 12th,2025 to March 19th 2025.
This year’s program will mainly focus on Climate Change/Sports and Japanese Culture.
During the program the participants are going to attend lectures, visit historical sites, home stay, join exchange activities and finally the program will conclude with a debriefing workshop.
The debriefing workshop is mainly for participants to share what they have learnt during the program and to present their plan to disseminate information about their experience of participating in the program in their respective countries.
The supervisor for the delegation Mr. Franklyn expressed his gratitude for this historical opportunity given to Noro Community High School to represent Solomon Islands at 2024 JENESYS Program.
He also said that this will be an opportunity for the students to learn about the culture and technology in Japan to motivate and reset their educational journey.
All the participants are grateful and looking forward to experiencing and learning the Japanese Culture, Lifestyle and build new networks and friendships through this program. The delegation also expressed their gratitude to the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development and the Embassy of Japan in Honiara for selecting them to represent the country in the 2024 JENESYS Program.
