<<        When I come to think what kind of contribution I could make to improve my community in which I live, there is no so many things that I could come up with, because the my neighbourhood is pretty clean and organised and has many greens. However, if I do something to improve the community with sparing a few hours per week, I would probably be involved in the issues of the young children who have difficulties in their families.        There seems to be an enormous number of children whose parents get divorced and who has half-brothers and sisters in Australia. This is widely seen in all over Australia of which divorce rate is over 50%, thus not unique to my community. However, this in one of the serious problems that my community has. People here tend to get married and divorced easily, and many of these children have their half sisters and brother. When the children are under these situations, it is likely that they are so stressed, worried and anxious about losing one of their parents and adapting themselves into new environment, and they may even feel they are losing love from the family. These children can be deeply hurt, which can lead to destructive behaviour such as drug, alcohols, shoplifting and such, and/or to mental and anxiety disorder. Even if the children can grow in a healthy manner, they may get mental trouble in loving someone, having their own children, bringing them up and such. This is exactly what happens whole through this country and in my community as well, which should be taken care of so that children do not have to be anxious of loosing love for their healthy growth.        There are some group of people who support these children in my community, though the number of staffs engaged in the tasks are not enough. I know one lady in this community group for the children, and she organises the fun activities, parties, counselling and so on so that the children from the community and some volunteers can get together to share some time so that the children can forget their anxiety and stress for a while and feel better. These kinds of places that are prepared by the community group is also good place for these children to meet others who face the same situation so that they can see that they are not only one and feel better. She also invites some children to her home personally during weekends, where they have lunch together, play some games and have a talk to have fun to lead to the relief of the stress of the children. However, what I hear from this lady is that they are not enough staff to organise the fun activities as a community group, therefore I think I maybe able to do this.        What kind of commitment that I can make in a few hours a week is limited but I think I can still help them. I can do some preparation tasks for the parties and fun activities, try to get the public attention and obtain donation to the community group, or simply drop by the place they get together and talk to or play with some of the children. Moreover, because I am from Japan, I could introduce some of the Japanese cultures or sub-cultures for the children that they may be interested in, and find some Japanese pen pals in Japan who are the similar age at the children, with which the children can probably find someone to talk to and have fun.        Through these commitments, I think I can do something to improve the situation of these children whose parents got divorced. It may be the case that I can make a big contribution, but I believe that, if I try, the situation can get better even slightly. Say, I maybe get close to one of these children and help him/her better.