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Rome, so I decided to submit an entry.” But she had only 20 minutes to outline a two-page proposal. It was then that Yuka remembered her experience of three years earlier in Brazil where she had volunteered to introduce Japanese culture to junior high and high school students. “It was there I encountered 15-year-olds who were working from morning until seven in the evening and then studying at school until going home at 11:00 pm. I was shocked to learn that they were working to earn money to pay for their living ex-penses. Yet they looked happy, and I learned so much from them.”When Yuka would visit a school, students gathered around eager to communicate. They told her that there were few chances to meet foreigners and their experience talking to On December 12, 2014, Yuka Kawamura was in Rome to participate in a policymaking competition in the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, which she had learned about only ve days earlier.“Ms. Makiko Deguchi, an associate professor who taught me in my rst year, remembered my presentation in her class about peacebuilding and Palestinian issues and mentioned the sum-mit just after I had returned from studying in Australia.”Yuka was interested for two reasons: the Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, would be in attendance and she wanted to join the discussions held for international students.“Up until the day of the competition deadline, I didn’t know I would still able to enter. I had not prepared anything, but I thought I should do something, having come all the way to A Desire to Create a World in whichPeople’s Choices and Possibilities arenot Limited by Their EnvironmentYuka Kawamura, a fourth-year student in the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies at Sophia University is the winner of the second “Mazda Make Things Better Award”, a program part of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. She won the competition with a proposal for an online platform to help eliminate educational dis-parities among people of different nationalities and incomes. She came to learn about these disparities while she was studying and volunteering in Brazil.Student: 03Yuka Kawamura20Student

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