It turns out that in line with the concept of "let all children receive education in an equal and affluent environment", Japan has a "Bell Symbol Consortium" to promote the participation of the whole people in sponsoring education. Any company can voluntarily apply for printing the "bell sign" on the packaging bag of its own products and become its sponsor company. There are different "points" on the bell sign. The expensive things have a large number of points, while the cheap ones are small. The average food is only 1 o'clock or 2 o'clock, and each point is worth one yen. Although ten yen can't buy a few sweets, it's not a small number to accumulate.
Like all grass-roots movements, this bell movement began with the collection of bell signs by every family. Mothers will check whether there is a small bell pattern when unpacking items, and if there is, cut it out and save it. On the specified days of each month, the children take the bell patterns collected at home to school. Next, the environmental Committee members of the whole school gathered together to classify these bell patterns, and then counted, registered and bagged them. Although the work is tedious and subtle, everyone is still doing it in an orderly way. Such activities are held once a month, and working mothers will make arrangements in advance to attend them on time.
Every month, PTA(parents teachers association) sends these sorted bell signs to Bell Consortium. After verification, the sponsoring company will remit the corresponding amount to PTA account of the school. At this time, the little bell pattern finally becomes money.