📝 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 a local group formed for this project since 1999. This village has
received the first prize at the national contests for visibility of beautiful stars in the sky and
terraced paddy fields.
In spite of the town's natural heritage, depopulation (especially of youth) is a serious
problem here similarly with many other parts of the country side in Japan. We aim to
activate the area by international voluntary power through helping forest conservation and
organizing children's summer camp.
💼 What the programme involves
We will work in the forests for maintenance by such as cutting underbrush. We will also
support children's summer camp will be held in this village. We will play, cook, and live in a
nature with kids in order for them to learn independence, group cooperation, and have
interest in different cultures. We will also do some needed works depends on the weather. Volunteers will get knowledge of conservation work in a forest.
🏠 Accommodation on site
A community center. Meals will be cooked by volunteers by turns. Sleeping bag is
necessary.
📍 About the location
Small village surrounded by mountains, about 50 km southeast of Fukuoka, famous for
production of tea leaves and beauty of starry sky. -- LEISURES : Star watching, cultural exchange party with locals, hot spring, and so on.
ℹ️ Additional information
Let's work for the forest and children! You also fully enjoy richness of nature and the night studded thick with stars.