IBIGAWA (GIFU)

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About the project

IBIGAWA (GIFU)

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

"This project is actively working for SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDGs 15 (Life on Land), organized together with a local organization named National Daily-tea and Tea seeds Support Network (NDTSN) since 2018. Kasuga area in Ibigawa town is one of the rare place of producing the Japanese tea in a traditional way of farming without any use of pesticides. On the other hand, the area has been facing serious aging and depopulation problems so that the number of retired farmers has been increasing rapidly. NDTSN has been trying to revive the abandoned cultivated lands and making wholesome oil produced from tea seeds as a new local specialty. NDTSN also has been trying to organize some projects for the interaction between urban and rural areas for activating the community.Outcome of this workcamp: In 2018, 7 vols. from 4 countries made great impact to the local activities. It was stopped in 2019 due to the local circumstances, but revived again this year"

💼 What the programme involves

Volunteers will mainly support for elderly local farmers to work on their tea farm such as cutting and collecting grasses. The schedule of work will be changed due to weather condition, so you need to be flexible

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will stay in shared room at a old house. Meals will be cooked by volunteers by turns. Sleeping bag is necessary.

📍 About the location

Kasuga area of Ibigawa town in Gifu prefecture. Its surrounded by beautiful mountains. The beautiful scenery of tea farms in highland there is called little Machu-Pichu in Gifu .

⚠️ Requirements

Only for Belgium residents

ℹ️ Additional information

Volunteers will join the local traditional summer festival

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📅 Available sessions

NICE-20-0728B

28/07/2020 → 06/08/2020

Closed

2 / 8

♂ 0/2 ♀ 2/2

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–99 years old

Solidarity donation

18000.00 JPY ≈ 102 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Ibigawa, Ibi District, Gifu, Japan

Japan

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Japan Yen (JPY / ¥)

Exchange rate

1 JPY = 0.005641 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

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🗣️ Languages spoken

English Japanese