📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Supporters of Revitalization in Mimasaka community participated CIEE Workshop for local partner in 2015 and decided to host a workcamp in summer 2016. A family who takes an initiative role consists of a father, a mother and 1 year old baby girl. A mother joined a workcamp in Germany through CIEE over 10 years ago when she was a teenager. After graduating from the university, she worked at trading company and traveled over 40 countries in 2 and half years with her husband. They moved to Mimasaka a few years ago. A family started preparing for a guesthouse where travelers from overseas can stay and enjoy this area, therefore they are looking for a motivated international volunteer who can support their work and promote their activities to the world.
Higashi Awakura Promotion Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It_eC1fJuwk
💼 What the programme involves
-Prepare and participate a local MATSURI festival
-learn and exchange culture with local residents
-some manual work at a grand-opening guesthouse
Up to two MTV female volunteers (CIEEJ1620) join this workcamp.
Volunteers are expected to work collectively in a group, and work well.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Facilities:
Japanese room and sleep on the FUTON mattress. There are a washer, a kitchen, a western lavatory and a shower room. Internet is available
Meals:
A volunteer prepares breakfast on their own. Lunch and dinner will be cooked together with volunteer members. Volunteers take turns in cooking and cleaning.
A volunteer who has an allergy in wheat, meat or fish can not be accepted because those are often used in Japanese meals and a group can not prepare meals by individual request.
📍 About the location
Mimasaka-city (http://kanko.city.mimasaka.lg.jp/ ) is famous for beautiful landscapes and hot springs. The most notable sightseeing spot is the birthplace of Musashi Miyamoto (1584~1645), the strongest swords man handling two swords at the same time. There are rich in nature that is still untouched by human. People love going on a mountain hike. A volunteer needs at least 10,000 JPY in cash if she wants to go sightseeing on free-day.
⚠️ Requirements
1 Every volunteer must be able to ride on a bicycle for 5 km (sometimes up to 20 km) a day
A volunteer is expected to be physical strong and tough under the strong summer sunlight
2 No volunteer is accepted if he/she has a strong allergy in cats, dogs or house dust
3 It is required that volunteers should prepare and bring things you can perform/display at an international exchange event. Pictures, CD, books, magazines, toys, games or snacks of your country are suggested. You will have time to give presentation about yourself and your home country at the culture event.
4 Rain boots are needed only those who foot is over 10 inch
Bring home countries’ recipes and ingredients for 10 more people, clothes suitable for activities, such as long T-shirts, long pants, and sneakers (because there is a lot of big masquitos around the area), a hat/cap, toiletries, towels, medicine (for cold, painkiller), sprays for bugs and other things you need for your daily life.
ℹ️ Additional information
It is recommended that you love cooking and being around the nature