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. Volunteers 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.)
HEPP have more than dozen of volunteer workers from Japan and overseas. You are expected to do organic farming (cultivation, harvesting, weeding, thinning, chopping woods etc.) as well as house work. You will maintain a couple buildings in the site, keeping them clean, painting, taking care of compost and water treatment device, etc. They will also host young people from age of 9 to 18 from May to September. You will support kids programs by living, playing and working together. From December to March, we get 1.5m-high snow. We are not very active in snow season but welcome volunteers who help us for snow shoveling.
Accomodation & food:
Shared room in the main house or a container house (male and female are separated), cooked as a group by turns. HEPP try to enjoy seasonal and local foods, basically vegetables and Japanese food, in order to practice ecological, healthy life style.
Location & leisure:
Agricultural country side, 60 km Northeast of Sapporo. Minus 10 degree in winter and 25-28 in summer.
Requirements:
Speaking good English is necessary. If you are motivated to learn Japanese, very welcome! We have various kinds of visitors including groups of kids and school students. We welcome volunteers who like to play or communicate with kids. Trial week or skype interview is required. Skills of construction or agriculture can be useful and welcome!
Age:
18-99
Location:
Yoichi, hokkaido.
Language(s):
English
Airport:
CTS: New Chitose (Sapporo, Japan)Vegetarian food will be available
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:
CTS: New Chitose (Sapporo, Japan)Vegetarian food will be available
Aim is to make cyclical environmental preservation within the affected areas. We will maintain bamboo forest (cutting bamboo trees etc.), make bamboo charcoals. We will support local farmers (harvesting, taking care of vegetables etc.).
Accomodation & food:
Shared the room in local house. Cooking by yourselves.
Location & leisure:
Southern part of Kumamoto prefecture in Kyushu, one of the four main islands of Japan. It faces a beautiful semi-closed sea called Shiranui-kai and has some gorgeous natural scenery.
Requirements:
Speaking some Japanese! Motivation to learn and speak Japanese language, strong motivation for the host.
Age:
18-99
Location:
Minamata, kumamoto.
Language(s):
English
Airport:
KOJ: Kagoshima (Kagoshima, Japan)Vegetarian food will be available
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.
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. Volunteers 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.)
HEPP have more than dozen of volunteer workers from Japan and overseas. You are expected to do organic farming (cultivation, harvesting, weeding, thinning, chopping woods etc.) as well as house work. You will maintain a couple buildings in the site, keeping them clean, painting, taking care of compost and water treatment device, etc. They will also host young people from age of 9 to 18 from May to September. You will support kids programs by living, playing and working together. From December to March, we get 1.5m-high snow. We are not very active in snow season but welcome volunteers who help us for snow shoveling.
Accomodation & food:
Shared room in the main house or a container house (male and female are separated), cooked as a group by turns. HEPP try to enjoy seasonal and local foods, basically vegetables and Japanese food, in order to practice ecological, healthy life style.
Location & leisure:
Agricultural country side, 60 km Northeast of Sapporo. Minus 10 degree in winter and 25-28 in summer.
Requirements:
Speaking good English is necessary. If you are motivated to learn Japanese, very welcome! We have various kinds of visitors including groups of kids and school students. We welcome volunteers who like to play or communicate with kids. Trial week or skype interview is required. Skills of construction or agriculture can be useful and welcome!
Age:
18-99
Location:
Yoichi, hokkaido.
Language(s):
English
Airport:
CTS: New Chitose (Sapporo, Japan)Vegetarian food will be available
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!
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