📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
NICE - Never-ending International workCamps Exchange - is an NGO to organize workcamps and other voluntary service projects mainly in Japan. Project is organized together with KOBOSHA, a local NPO for community planning, since 1996. We
will join the summer festival called ‘TORO NAGASHI' that is a memorial service for an
ancestor by making a lantern and floating it down a river. We will make large TORO (2 x 2
meters) for the festival in this workcamp. We aim to mobilize the area with workcamps.
Through workcamps, the local community will be much more activated, redeveloping pride
for their community and revival FUKUSHIMA.
💼 What the programme involves
We will mainly help and join the festival by making four big lanterns ‘TORO' (2 x 2 meters)
and hundreds of small lanterns together with local students. You can design your own
large ‘TORO' in this festival. It will be physically challenging work. Activate the isolated community with suffer from depopulation through the festival and
good practices in your country.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Local Commuty bulding, very simple life style. Volunteer stay a Japanese style room. Share
room. Meals will be cooked by volunteers by turns. Sleeping bag is necessary.
📍 About the location
Small town in the southern part of Fukushima. 100km far from Fukushima nuclear power
plant and the level of radioactivity is 0.06 mSv/h that is far from dangerous. -- LEISURES : Home stay, sports, exchange parties, etc.
ℹ️ Additional information
The empowerment of the local festival together with locals in the region facing the depopulation and aging.