24 of Japan such as, Caring for young Refugees, Japan International Volunteer Center (JVC), the Soto Sect Volunteers Association, and the ‘Hands of Love to Indochina Refugees’ of Sophia University, were active. The JVC and Shinnyo-en conducted relief work within Cambodia. At Sophia University, the President, Giuseppe Pittau (who served from 1975-81), took the initiative in commencing a relief activity known as “Hands of Love for Indochina Refugees.” In December 1979, President Pittau himself stood at the east exit of Shinjuku Station and called on the people passing by, in order to raise money for the assistance of the Indochinese refugees. At the same time members of the administrative and teaching staff of Sophia University and other university volunteers, spontaneously participated in this campaign. In November of that year, President Pittau proposed at the University Council that a fundraising program sponsored by the university be launched, and as the entire university agreed, this volunteer activity proposal was duly adopted. Sending volunteers to the site was what students in the streets of Shinjuku keenly desired. Around the end of the year President Pittau and representatives of the faculty and staff visited the Sa Kaeo refugee camp at the Thai border, bearing donations and medicines they had thus far received, and from February 1980, local volunteers comprising students and faculty members were sent in groups to assist at the ‘war orphanage,’ for around two weeks at a time. In dispatching the local volunteers, President Pittau underscored the fact that volunteering was a principle of serving free of charge, with one’s own funds. “You will not be giving love,” he said, “You will receive it.”
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