Maintaining flowerbed (ex. watering, removing grass etc.), and support for local event "cleaning up river", "shopping street" with local people to activate the area and communication with local people. Also volunteers will join local some activities and events.
Accomodation & food:
Single room in local apartment house or home stay (Only for female, but it depend on timing). Breakfast in café, lunch with local people, dinner with local host.
Location & leisure:
Tokushima City, capital of Tokushima Prefecture, has a population of about 260,000. The city is in northern Tokushima Prefecture where the Yoshino River and its tributaries create a delta.
Requirements:
Speaking good Japanese! Motivation to learn and speak Japanese language, strong motivation for the host.
Volunteers will do a various working to care of the forest such as cutting trees & branches, maintaining the footpaths etc… Volunteers will take care and harvesting mushrooms and chestnuts. Volunteers also support to organize some environmental events (e.g., to collect edible wild plants, nature observation) in their field.
Accomodation & food:
Single room, in the pension named ‘Eco Resort Akame'. Volunteers cook by themselves.
Location & leisure:
About 60 km east of Osaka. There are famous falls nearby that many hikers visit.
Requirements:
Speaking good Japanese, strong motivation to work with the host, respect to the local custom and life, open mind and flexibility. Skype interview is required.
Empowering NEET youth (Communication with them, they can get confidence by the experiences of communicating foreign people, to talk, to do activities). Volunteers will do various work to maintain and protect the forests such as cutting bamboos and grasses, burning grasses, etc..
Accomodation & food:
Share the rooms in the house named ‘Yukimi-ru', it is the center of NEET youth members. Cooked by vols.
Location & leisure:
About 250 km northwest of Osaka. Near the Sea of Japan.
Requirements:
Speaking good Japanese! Motivation to learn and speak Japanese language, strong motivation for the host. Interested in nature conservation. Age is until 39 years old.
We will 1) maintain/ upgrade the children's forest 2) maintain bamboo forest 3) involve many people who has interesting environmental projects (Ex. to organize weekend workcamp) 4) revive the forest in disaster area in Iwaki city, Fukushima that got huge damaged by Tsunami. Activitiy Blog：http://urx.mobi/zfe4
Accomodation & food:
Single room in very big beautiful house, it is called Meizai-an. Cooked by vols. by turn. All basic facilities are provided.
Location & leisure:
Mashiko town is located in the east part of Tochigi prefecture and famous for potter, so the atmosphere of the town is artistic with some cultural heritages. The population of the town is about 25,000.
We will 1) cultivating rice (Ex. rice planting, cutting grass in terraced rice fields (main work), 2) to help local farm (green tea, rice and vegetable, etc.), 3) to involves many people who has interesting environmental projects(Ex. to organize environmental class and to support Sansonjuku events).
Accomodation & food:
Egao no mori center (It was Kasahara-higashi elementary school until 2004). Volunteers cook for themselves. There may be some pocket money to support additional cost by the group (e.g..transportation and meals outside on free days) in some cases.
Location & leisure:
Southern part of the Fukuoka prefecture. The Yame city is 482.53 km2. There are so many tee trees and terraced paddy fields.
Requirements:
Motivation to learn and speak Japanese language!! Respect to the local culture and way of the local organization! Interested in environmental issues and agriculture. Motivation to work hard, open mind, cooperation with others.
Maintaining flowerbed (ex. watering, removing grass etc.), and support for local event "cleaning up river", "shopping street" with local people to activate the area and communication with local people. Also volunteers will join local some activities and events.
Accomodation & food:
Single room in local apartment house or home stay (Only for female, but it depend on timing). Breakfast in café, lunch with local people, dinner with local host.
Location & leisure:
Tokushima City, capital of Tokushima Prefecture, has a population of about 260,000. The city is in northern Tokushima Prefecture where the Yoshino River and its tributaries create a delta.
Requirements:
Speaking good Japanese! Motivation to learn and speak Japanese language, strong motivation for the host.
Volunteers will do a various working to care of the forest such as cutting trees & branches, maintaining the footpaths etc… Volunteers will take care and harvesting mushrooms and chestnuts. Volunteers also support to organize some environmental events (e.g., to collect edible wild plants, nature observation) in their field.
Accomodation & food:
Single room, in the pension named ‘Eco Resort Akame'. Volunteers cook by themselves.
Location & leisure:
About 60 km east of Osaka. There are famous falls nearby that many hikers visit.
Requirements:
Speaking good Japanese, strong motivation to work with the host, respect to the local custom and life, open mind and flexibility. Skype interview is required.
Empowering NEET youth (Communication with them, they can get confidence by the experiences of communicating foreign people, to talk, to do activities). Volunteers will do various work to maintain and protect the forests such as cutting bamboos and grasses, burning grasses, etc..
Accomodation & food:
Share the rooms in the house named ‘Yukimi-ru', it is the center of NEET youth members. Cooked by vols.
Location & leisure:
About 250 km northwest of Osaka. Near the Sea of Japan.
Requirements:
Speaking good Japanese! Motivation to learn and speak Japanese language, strong motivation for the host. Interested in nature conservation. Age is until 39 years old.
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