📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
NICE - Never-ending International workCamps Exchange - is an NGO to organize workcamps and other voluntary service projects mainly in Japan. Project is organized together with 'Morito', a local voluntary group in Sado Island, since 2001. They
maintain the school forest called 'Furusato-no-mori Park' in Ogi town, on the southern
part of the island. They make it possible for the community to enjoy the forest in every
season. They are now trying to focus on caring for the forest in a joint effort with the
community. They hope youth and foreign volunteers will mentally and physically help to
empower the area.
💼 What the programme involves
We will participate in the famous art festival 'Earth Celebration' and make/sell soba
(buckwheat Japanese noodles) with the local people. Volunteers practice making Soba in
the every evening until the festival. We also work in the school forests, cutting bushes and
creating recreation programs for local youth to experience the forest. And we support the
local small festival 'Ogi Matsuri' as play the Japanese drums. Part of the World Tanabata. Volunteers get knowledge and skill about making Soba and playing the Japanese drum.
Also the basic knowledge of the Japanese language and local culture.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Japanese style cottage. Meals will be cooked by volunteers by turns. Sleeping bag is
necessary.
📍 About the location
300 km northeast of Tokyo. Sado Island is famous for gold and the Japanese crested ibis.
Ogi is in the southern part beside the beach, where you can enjoy fishing and the hot
spring. -- LEISURES : Exchange parties, excursion, fishing, etc.
ℹ️ Additional information
Making Japanese noodle and maintaining the forest.