I feel honoured to have all of you entrust your children with Tenri Primary School. They are people to carry Kenya’s bright future on their shoulders.
In Japan, birth rates and ladies interested in marriage have decreased in the recent years and so it is the Japanese population. Japanese hae a very high life expectancy with women having an average of eighty seven (87) years and men eighty (80) years. Those that have attained a hundred (100) years and above are more than sixty five thousand (65,000). Above sixty five years are approximately forty million people. For that reason, young people who can support the good cities are not enough.
The government of Japan has this year opened job vacancies to more than four hundred and thirty thousand (430,000) foreigners who will work in various fields like health care support for the aged and in Agricultural fields for food production. Japan is such an old aged citizen’s country.
Kenya’s average is nineteen (19) years, with much younger citizens as compared to Japan. This makes me delighted and look forward to seeing the country’s future. Though, to realize a bright future, able leaders are required. I believe that the only place where those able leaders can be given a very strong foundation is non other than in Tenri Primary School. This should not be just theory, but something that should be done practically by all the stakeholders involved directly or indirectly.
In this world, all are brothers and sisters of the same parent. (God the Parent). No one should be called an outsider.
Foundress
These are the words and teachings of the founders of the Tenrikyo mission, Miki Nakayama (Oyasama). Through the guidance of these words, the emergency rescue activities in Kenya started back in 1980’s. The founders also taught that, {This world should not have those that are above or below others, no one should be discriminated and all should be equal.}
Because of that teaching, our activities in Kenya go on well and in the process Tenri Primary School came to be. The good results we see are because both the pupils and the staff do their best from early morning to late in the evening. Let us all do our best day and night to support our children who are studying hard and moulding their future everyday. Let us do our best by putting our strengths together so that this school may produce the future president of this great nation.
Thank you very much.
Yasuo Shiojiri
Director