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Kids' Door

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Kids' Door[1] is a Japanese non-profit organization that provides free education to children from primary school to secondary school that are on welfare or are from single parent families. It also provides food for the children that cannot purchase food with their own money.[2] In addition, Kids' Door advises families that have poor children on how to get them to a post-secondary school.[3] It was founded by Yumiko Watanabe in 2007. Kids' Door primarily serves children in Tokyo.[2] The organization lobbies for an increase in the allowance for child support.[4]

The children at Kids' Door are taught by volunteers, which are both college students[5] and adults,[6] on the weekends[7] and after school.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Kids' Door English". www.kidsdoor.net. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  2. ^ a b c "Japan's child poverty rate eases, but strong public support still needed". The Japan Times. 7 July 2017.
  3. ^ "日本的教育是什么?是平等的教育,是关于人的教育". www.sohu.com. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  4. ^ Adelstein, Jake; Stucky, Nathalie-Kyoko (5 December 2015). "Japan's economic troubles hit single-parent families and children especially hard". Los Angeles Times.
  5. ^ "Japanese NPO Launches Study Support Program to Eliminate Education Gap". Japan for Sustainability. 12 February 2014.
  6. ^ "朝日新聞デジタル for school」と「朝日けんさくくん」の機能統合について | 朝日新聞デジタルforスクール".
  7. ^ Hagiwara, Yuri; Reynolds, Isabel (10 September 2015). "In Japan, 1 in 6 children lives in poverty, putting education, future at stake". The Japan Times.
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