Reflection

We gave a presentation on our NGO and the survey in last class, and our classmates gave us the feedback. So I will sum up them here.
Many of them seem to be interested in our NGO, and want to join us. I'm really glad. Some of them are on a diet now, but they didn't know what is right or wrong diet so our presentation might be good oppotunity to reconsider their diet.
Many of them also understand that eating disorder is not so far from my daily life, and wrong diet lead to it. They said that it is important to spread the right information and knowledge to lessen people who have eating disorder.

EWASH

After the surveys, we established the NGO named “EWASH” because we would like to support people who want to be on a diet with a healthy way, and spread the information about eating disorder which is occurred by doing wrong diet.

We gave a presentation about EWASH and the surveys I showed you. I put on our PPT slide here. Please look at.

Mission

We would like to spread incorrect unhealthy diet to tell danger of them, and help people who try to stay healthy by diet. And we also want to tell what “diet” really means because many people misunderstand the meaning of the word. “diet” is not just losing weight! The really meaning of diet is not only to lose weight but also to gain weight to be healthy. We think that this situation is caused by media, so we investigate how people on media influence our understanding of standard proportion.

And, eating disorder and diet is closely related, so we give knowledge of eating disorder and its prevention and mental care and treatment for eating disorder.

Concrete Ways that We Try to Achieve Our Goals

I’ll introduce parts of our activities. We regularly visit junior high school and high school to teach dietary education for teenagers. And we hold the meetings for dieters or people who have eating disorder. They can talk with each other about their common problems, we think that will be a big help for them because some of them cannot confess their disease to other people. We also introduce them counseling.

Who We Network with?

We cooperate with schools, institutions where many people suffer from eating disorders and mental depression by diets, and hospitals. We hold some events with these institutions every year, and a lot of people who are interested in diet and eating disorder put together.

How We Recruit New Members

We usually recruit new members at our website.  We also offer new members at our visits to schools, institutions and hospitals. If you are interested in our activities, please join us!

Why We are Interesting?

If you become a member of our NGO, you can consult distress with members, and you can help your friends or family members with knowledge gained from us.

The result of our survey

We conducted two surveys related to diet and eating disorder in order to found our NGO. I'll introduce you the result of the survey about eating disorder.

First, we asked the question, “ Do you have knowledge of eating disorder?” The sum of people who answered “ Know well” and “Know” is 60%.

Next, we asked people who answered they have knowledge of eating disorder to tell what kinds of eating disorder they know. 82% of them know about anorexia, this is the highest rate, and 72% of them know about bulimia, and then only 10% of them know aboutEating disorder not otherwise specified (such as Binge eating disorder). We suggest that the information about anorexia and bulimia is spread through media like TV or magazines.

We also asked the question, “Does anybody around you have a eating disorder?” The rate of people who answered “yes” is 11%, and all of them answered their friends have eating disorder.

These results show that a few people have correct knowledge about eating disorder.

According to the two surveys we did, many people are dissatisfied with their proportion, but some of them regained their weight or hurt their health because they didn’t have right knowledge about diet. Moreover, we found that the wrong interpretation of the word “diet” has been spread. We became to think that reasons of such situations are TV or magazines, they give us many wrong information through this survey.