Bokutachi Ha Sekai Wo Kaeru Koto Ga Dekinai. but, We Wanna Build a School in Cambodia. (Shogakukan Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Kota, a medical student, had studied hard for the entrance examination and entered the university, but he had doubts about his mundane life. One day, he happens to come across a pamphlet that says that if he donates 1,500,000 yen, an elementary school will be built in Cambodia. Kota thought to himself, "This is it! Kota felt that this was it, and with great vigor, he recruited his friends and organized a club event to try to raise the money. At the same time, he travels to Cambodia and comes into contact with the harsh reality of landmine clearance, families living in garbage heaps, girls working in brothels, and the AIDS problem, and comes face to face with his own inadequacies... This nonfiction book is not only a pretty story, but also gives us the courage to take a step forward.

医大生の甲太は受験勉強をして大学に入ったものの平凡な日常に疑問を抱いていた。そんなある日「百五十万円寄付してもらえればカンボジアに小学校が建つ」というパンフレットを偶然見かける。これだ!と感じた甲太は、勢いで仲間を募り、クラブイベントを企画して、寄付金の捻出をはかろうと奔走する。同時に、カンボジアにも出向き、地雷除去、ゴミ山で暮らす家族、売春宿で働く少女やエイズ問題などの過酷な現実に触れ、自分のダメさ加減と正対することになり…。決してきれい事だけではない、一歩踏み出す勇気を与えてくれるノンフィクション。