WAZUKA (KYOTO)

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About the project

WAZUKA (KYOTO)

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

This project has been organized with E-Wasa (EW), a local non-profit organization since 2015. EW, meaning good Japanese tea, was created in 2012 to organize agricultural events, support new tea farmers who live in Wazuka. Short-term volunteer programs, workcamps, have been held every year since 2001 by another local group nearby. One of the tea farmers who was a camp leader of workcamp in Wazuka was fascinated by this place and became a tea farmer here. Then, he established EW for the future of Wazuka. Wazuka is famous for green tea, called Uji-cha, the name of a different area. However, the tea farmers in Wazuka want to promote their tea as Wazuka-cha. Now, Wazuka faces depopulation, lack of workers and an aging society since most of the youth leave the town. As a result, the number of abandoned tea farms increases and the town loses its tradition, life, custom and scenery. EW hopes to host international volunteers to work together to animate the town and revitalize the tea farms.

💼 What the programme involves

Volunteers will do natural tea farming in abandoned tea farms with EW. Working at the tea farm is physically hard. After reviving farms, EW will provide it for those who wants to start new tea farms. Volunteers are expected to join local events and weekend-workcamps too.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Single room at the volunteers house. Cooking by volunteers.

📍 About the location

Location: About 80 km from the center of Osaka. Most of the peninsula was designated as a quasi-national park. It was selected as one of the most beautiful villages in Japan in 2013. A famous landscape known as the Beautiful Tea farms is called Cha-genkyo.Other activities: Join the local events etc. Sightseeing, short trip (temples, shrines famous places in Nara and Kyoto).

⚠️ Requirements

Belgian volunteers only.

🤝 Meeting point

The meeting point will be indicated on the infosheet.

ℹ️ Additional information

Participation fee: 12,000 yen per month (6,000 yen from the 4th month).Term: If you want to participate in dates other than the above (either shorter or longer), please choose your start/end date among the following seminar dates.[ 17-19 Apr. / 03-04 Jul. / 02-04 Oct. /18 Dec.

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