📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Organized together with Fukushima Conservation Corp (FCC). Conservation Corps is long term. Conservation Corps is long term workcamps in USA where 10 -20 youth work for local development and environment. About 25000vols. join every year. To create similar programs in Japan, FCC was created 2011 after the Great East Japan Earthquake East Japan. Iwaki city has still damage caused by harmful rumour. FCC start various activities to work in the field and forest, maintain coastal forests which it damaged by tsunami with local people.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will 1) work in rice fields and vegetable with local people, 2) revive the forest in disaster area in Iwaki city that got huge damaged by Tsunami Iwaki city that got huge damaged by Tsunami, 3) to communicate many local people who evacuate from radioactivity.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteer house. Volunteers cook for themselves. All basic facilities are provided.
📍 About the location
Iwaki city is located in the south-eastern corner of Fukushima Prefecture, Iwaki is one of the largest city in Japan.
⚠️ Requirements
Asian priority. Interests in Environment and local development. Liking to work outside. Flexibility and cooperation are required. Speaking good Japanese (We use Japanese mainly).
ℹ️ Additional information
Other activities : We will have a time to learn a leadership, NPO management, group work, that would be useful for your future. Joining the local festivals. Sightseeing, short trip (hot springs, famous places in this prefecture).
Participation fee : 12,000 yen per one month (6,000 yen from the 4th 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.There may be some pocket money to support additional cost by the group (e.g., transportation and meals outside on free days) in some cases.