📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Organized together with is “Aruking-club (AKC)”. They works on the theme of “making good relationship between nature and human beings”. Their aim is to make people know different face of nature…beautiful nature, strong nature, strict nature and generous nature etc. As a bridge between people and nature, they organize a lot of outdoor activities, like 2 weeks summer camp for kids, nature walking, nature watching, outdoor sports etc.
💼 What the programme involves
Local host will organize some “Kids camps”. Especially there is Non-programing kids camp for 2 weeks on August. It means participants who joins kids, they make a program by themselves during camp. We will prepare, manage and support Kids camp. We support AKC events for example, Oze (One of famous national park in Japan) nature school, cooking events etc.)
🏠 Accommodation on site
Yamanoie, it means “mountain house”. You will have your own room. All basic facilities are provided. There is WIFI here. Volunteers cook by yourself, sometimes you can have dishes with local host. During the camp, cook with kids.
📍 About the location
Mountain area, rich nature. About 150 km of Tokyo. 81% of the village is occupied by the forest and there are 5 clean rivers are going through. It is located near Oze national park.
⚠️ Requirements
Speaking good Japanese (common language will be Japanese) and strong motivation to communicate with kids, enjoy simple life and respect to the local culture and way of the local organization! Experience of kids camp can be useful!
ℹ️ Additional information
Other activities: Various enjoyable programs with children, exchange parties, etc.
Participation fee: 12,000 yen per one month to be paid on their arrivals. There is no fee for vols. from the NGOs charging no fee in their LMTV projects to NICE vols.
Other: English website of local organization: http://morigasuki.org/wp/?page_id=34