Kuromatsunai
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About the project
Kuromatsunai
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
This project is actively working for SDG4 (Quality Education)/ SDGS11 (Sustainable cities and
communities) and has been organized together with Buna-no-mori Shizen Gakko (nature school with
beech forests) since 2003. BSG was started in 1998 to promote ecological education for kids and run
various kinds of programs such as walking in the forest as the school program, trekking and searching
for fossils for the tourists and kids camps in the spring/ summer vacations as well as training for the
nature guides, maintaining the community farm, exchange with the local community, etc.
*Outcome of this workcamp: In 2025, 4 international vols. worked together with the local people and
made great contribution such as exchanging with the local kids to grow glocal friendship! Please see
the long term goal of this project as "Local SDGs" at https://www.slideshare.net/nice-workcamp/n1-
68295484 (only Japanese for the moment, but you can at least enjoy the pictures!)
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will help to run three kids summer camps each for 4-7 days by playing with and assisting
kids, running cultural programs (sharing your dance, songs, arts, sports, games, cooking, etc.) and
helping house work and preparation such as cleaning, cooking and setting up the equipment with the
staffs and other vols. You won’t have much "free" time, let's enjoy the time with the children!
🏠 Accommodation on site
Old school (Volunteers will sometimes sleep in the same rooms with the kids by turns during the kids
camp).
🍲 Food
Lunch besides the kids camp period will be cooked by volunteers by turns while other meals
will be provided mainly by mother Mariko san (but you should still help!). Sleeping bag is necessary.
📍 About the location
South west of Hokkaido island. Full of beautiful nature with national reserve of beech forests, a river
and wetland. Main industry is cattle farming.
⚠️ Requirements
🤝 Meeting point
The nearest international airport is Sapporo (CTS). From CTS to the meeting point (Kuromatsunai
station), it takes 4-5 hours by train. Volunteers need to arrive at CTS by the end of Jul. 21st and can
leave there after the midnight of Aug 17th.
ℹ️ Additional information
Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.
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📅 Available sessions
NICE-26S-0722A
22/07/2026 at 00:00 → 17/08/2026 at 00:00
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
Hokkaido, Japan
Japan
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Japan Yen (JPY / ¥)
Exchange rate
1 JPY = 0.005641 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
Timezone
Japan Standard Time
Local time: 21:34 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken