📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
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.
🏠 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. Sleeing 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! Tokyo (5 hours from Tokyo by bus. You need to arrive at Narita airport by 07:30 on first day and can leave there after 20:00 on last day.) Other activities: Home stay, sports, exchange parties, etc. Study theme: Activate the isolated community with suffer from depopulation through the festival and good practices in your country
⚠️ Requirements
Interest in Japanese culture, making big lanterns (‘TORO’) and working with locals!
ℹ️ Additional information
No fee Language: English (Japanese is also welcomed!) Other remark: None