📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Organized together with Unzen Social Welfare (a semi-governmental) Association since 1994. Unzen is located in the west part of Japan, there is a rich natural environment facing the sea and mountain town. However, the town has been lost active community participation due to the declining birthrate and aging population. The past workcamps were quite successful in encouraging Kids camp. We are going to organize the Kids care program.
💼 What the programme involves
We will organize and run the Kids room (7-12 years old) during their summer vacation, Kids room will open the 9:00-17:00, volunteer give the variety international games for them. And we run 2-3 days international exchange program with about 20 local girls and boys within the ages of 10 to 15. -- Kids program management seminar (Program design, English communication and risk management.)
🏠 Accommodation on site
Social Center, very simple life style. Volunteer stay a Japanese style room. Share room. Sleeping bag is necessary.
🍲 Food
volunteer will eat local food.Meals will be cooked by volunteers by turns.
📍 About the location
Small town, about 80 km east of Nagasaki, very famous as a symbolic place against nuclear war. Unzen is very famous for football in Japan. -
Unzen is the name of the region in the center of the Shimabara-hanto Peninsula which belongs to the volcanic region of Mt. Unzen-dake. Its principal peak is Mt. Fugen-dake and the area is part of Unzen-Amakusa National Park. In 1990, Mt. Fugen-dake erupted after 198 years of silence, and the lava dome of Mt. Heisei-shinzan was formed. The dramatic shape of the new mountain may be seen from observation points at Nita-toge Pass, and from Mt. Myoken-dake.
The Unzen-onsen Hot Spring is on the southwest side of Mt. Unzen-dake, at 700 to 800 meters above sea level. The hot spring is divided into three sections: Koyu; Shin-yu; and Sho-jigoku, and is a popular summer resort because of its cool weather. Sulfuric gas colors the ground red and yellow where fumes have burst forth, and more than thirty hot springs are scattered throughout the deserted landscape of Unzen.
🎒 Leisure activities
Exchange parties and Cultural workshop etc.
⚠️ Requirements
English (Japanese is also welcomed!)
ℹ️ Additional information
Projects to foster the international perspective of the children in the region facing the depopulation and aging.