Volunteers will do natural tea farming in abandoned tea farms with EW. After reviving farms, EW will provide it for new tea farmer who want to start as new tea farmer. Volunteers will join the local events, weekend workcamp too.
Accomodation & food:
Single room at the volunteer's house. Cooking by themselves.
Location & leisure:
About 80 km from the center of Osaka. Most of the peninsula was designated as a quasi-national park.It was selected as "one pf the most beautiful villages in Japan" 2013. A famous landscape known as the "Beautiful Tea farms" It is called "Cha-genkyo".
Requirements:
Speaking some Japanese, strong motivation to work with the host, respect of the local customs and life, open mind and flexibility.
Volunteers will help orange farming (It is the main work!! Harvesting, taking care of trees, cutting grass etc., it depend on season! Especially, Nov. to April. is hard!!), support local youth club (If you have chance), and create new activities to animate the town.
Accomodation & food:
Share room (male and female are separated) at the volunteer's house. It is traditional Japanese style house. You'll cook by yourselves.
Location & leisure:
In the edge of Sata Peninsula, surrounded by the sea, so fishing is also famous. There are only 30 houses in this community. The climate is relatively warm though it can be cold in winter.
Requirements:
Speaking good Japanese, strong motivation to work with the host, respect to the local custom and life, open mind and flexibility. Be ready that work is for quite a long and hard (Especially, Nov. to April.)
We will do some farming such as planting rice, cutting the grasses, sowing seeds and harvesting in the land of ANSN. ANSN organize many events on weekend. We will help to accept smoothly people from kids to adults, family. We will support and enjoy with them. Especially end of July to end of August, ANSN organize kids camp program. We will support it.
Accomodation & food:
Single room of the nature school. Volunteers cook with local host, if more than 3 volunteers together, cooking by themselves. During kid camp, we will stay with kids (But it depend on case!)
Location & leisure:
Small village in the forest area, the population is about 5,000, surrounded by rich nature. The temperature in winter can be minus 5-10 though the inside buildings are warm enough! 75km far from Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Requirements:
Speaking some Japanese, strong motivation to work with the host and live in the remote area with a lot of nature, respect to the local custom and life, flexibility, positive mind and those who likes children. Interest in revival Fukushima. Experience of similar types of work is welcome!
Volunteer will do various types of agricultural works (planting, weeding, cultivating, harvesting, to make organic vegetables, taking care of animals, milk processing, etc.) as well as house work. We will develop the rangeland.
Accomodation & food:
Shared room (male and female are separated) in volunteer house, cooked as a group by turns.
Location & leisure:
Agricultural country side, 120 km east of Sapporo. Minus 20 degree in winter and 20 in summer.
Requirements:
Motivation to learn and speak Japanese language, strong motivation for the host. Skills of agriculture or construction can be useful!
Age:
18-99
Location:
Shintoku, hokkaido.
Language(s):
English
Airport:
SPK: Chitose (Chitose, Japan)Vegetarian food will be available
We will help their organic farming (weeding in rice and vegetable fields, planting vegetables, taking care of goats and chicken, etc.) and also making miso and soy-sauce, wooden toy, weaving and dyeing cloths etc. Be ready to work for quite a long time (05:30-18:00 with some brakes) and hard.
Accomodation & food:
Building for volunteers in the farm, cooking as a group by turn.
Location & leisure:
Otari village is a small village located in the region of stunning natural beauty in the northern part of Nagano Prefecture, Japan. It is beautiful village near "Japanese Northern Alps".2
Requirements:
Speaking some Japanese (common language will be Japanese) and strong motivation to work and enjoy simple life in the isolated area and respect to the local culture and way of the local organization! Skills of agriculture or construction can be useful!
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.
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.
Volunteers will do natural tea farming in abandoned tea farms with EW. After reviving farms, EW will provide it for new tea farmer who want to start as new tea farmer. Volunteers will join the local events, weekend workcamp too.
Accomodation & food:
Single room at the volunteer's house. Cooking by themselves.
Location & leisure:
About 80 km from the center of Osaka. Most of the peninsula was designated as a quasi-national park.It was selected as "one pf the most beautiful villages in Japan" 2013. A famous landscape known as the "Beautiful Tea farms" It is called "Cha-genkyo".
Requirements:
Speaking some Japanese, strong motivation to work with the host, respect of the local customs and life, open mind and flexibility.
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