Students at Hokkaido College of High Technology made donations in support of the victims of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami and the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes through the Eniwa Council of Social Welfare on November 17.

 

At the request of the city of Eniwa, students from Hokkaido College of High Technology sold pumpkin bagels baked in the Biotechnology Department at Michi to Kawa no Eki “Hana Road Eniwa” as part of the school’s cooperative education with industry and government program.

 

Pumpkin bagels have been sold and distributed at many different events and were born out of the Yumechikara Project, a collaborative effort with local bread makers which pursed research using the Yumechikara wheat grown in Eniwa.

 

The bagels have been sold mainly on Saturdays and Sundays by the students involved in their production with the cooperation of the students from the student association. Local residents are particularly fond of pumpkin bagels, which sell out soon after going on sale.

 

The students taking part in the project were both excited to deliver the bread they were involved in making directly to customers and overjoyed to then be able to make donations in support of the victims of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami and the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes. This sense of achievement is something that they could not have experienced in the classroom.