Imabari22-10 (Ehime)

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About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Let's play with kids and make their happiness !
This project is actively working for SDG 4 (Quality Education), organized for the 8th time together with a local NPO (Child care center) named Mummy Land (ML). In Japan, many children are refused in the
childcare centers due to the lack of capacity that makes the life of working parents very difficult. The official number is decreasing in these years, but there are a lot of hidden cases not appeared in the
statistics... ML supports those parents who can't find places for their children at such registered childcare facilities and also open the places for after school activities of other children.
Thus, a daughter of the owner has joined many workcamp/ IVS projects through NICE before and would like to promote inter-cultural learning and exchange to the kids from their early stage.

💼 What the programme involves

N.B. Ce projet est disponible seulement pour les BELGES!

Volunteers will take care of children (age 0-3) at the childcare facility where the host works. They will
also play with children (age 3-10) by introducing their culture or showing their special skills, like playing
the musical instruments or some kind of sports, dancing, drawing, cooking. etc.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Single room at the volunteer's house or homestay at the local host's house. You’ll cook by yourselves but lunch will be provided by the local on working day. Smoking is prohibited. Sleeping bag is NOT
necessary. The accommodation will be changed depends on the season. The staff will explain on the arrival seminar about it.

📍 About the location

Imabari city, Ehime prefecture. About 300 km south west of Osaka. Near Seto Island sea.

🎒 Leisure activities

Join the local events, going out to a park, the river, the sea with children. Cycling in Shimanami road.

⚠️ Requirements

Some Japanese speaking skill (manage to have basic daily conversation). High motivation to work with kids and to learn/ speak Japanese language. Positive attitude to communicate with children.
Language : Japanese and English. Local host can speak English. Japanese is also welcomed!

🤝 Meeting point

The nearest airport is Matsuyama airport from which it takes 2 hours by bus to the project site. However, volunteers need to join On Arrival and Evaluation Seminars in Tokyo, so firstly should arrive at Tokyo airport (Narita or Haneda) by 08:00 on Oct. 22. They also need to join Evaluation Seminar in Osaka in the last 2 days, so and can leave Kansai airport after 18:00 on the ending day.

ℹ️ Additional information

18,000 yen (129 USD by the rate on 2022 Sep. 2nd) of 1.5 months "NICE Volunteers" fee need to be paid in advance either by Card or PayPal. This is used for the project preparation/ coordination such as
the transportation of the camp leaders while the meals and the accommodation are provided by the local host by free.

Volunteers will join On Arrival Seminar in Tokyo or Yokohama for the first 2 days and Evaluation Seminar possibly in Osaka in the last 2 days (However, there are possibilities that they can extend their stay till Dec. 25 and in that case, participation in Evaluation Seminar is exempted!)

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