KATSUYAMA 2 (FUKUI)

"This project is actively working for SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), organized together with ""Ohara Eco Project (OEP)"" and Katsuyama city government since 2009. There were 600 inhabitants in Ohara village with 90 houses, but now only 1 elder OEP was founded by the Foresters cooperative and local people in 2006 and have rehabilitated 7 houses of cultural heritage. Depopulation problem is serious in most of mountain parts in Japan. Many fields and forests are abandoned, so we will try to improve the situation by voluntary power Volunteers support local community work like as cleaning up ditch, mountain road and old house, organizing local festival, agriculture in Abandoned farmland and so on instead of local people. Outcome of this workcamp: Please see the presentation made by the volunteer for the IVS contest in Japan; https://www.slideshare.net/nice-workcamp/e1-67951349 (only Japanese for the moment, but you can at least enjoy the pictures). In 2019, 5 vols. from 3 countries worked well with the local people."