2021 Volume 30 Issue 1 Pages 108-114
In Nantan City, Kyoto Prefecture, a questionnaire survey on the activity status was conducted for 12 volunteer members with the aim of clarifying the factors related to the continuation of the activities of the child-rearing support volunteer group. In addition, two major volunteer members were interviewed about the purpose, transition, and achievements of the last five years. The eight respondents in the questionnaire survey were all female and were 68.7±6.8 years old. The triggers for the activity were “related to previous work” and “invited”, and the reasons for continuing the activity were “relationship between members” and “significance of the activity”. Although there are difficulties in reducing the content of activities due to the aging of members and suspension of activities of some members, difficulty in securing successors, and difficulty in participating in the activities of the mother generation, the activities in the last 5 years are almost the same as before. These results indicate that the factors related to the continuation of child-rearing support volunteer activities are that the members have work experience and social roles related to children, and that the members have opportunities to interact with colleagues and child-rearing generations who share the same purpose in the community.
