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 Educational Actions

 

(to organize school lessons)

More information coming soon!

   
Sister School Project
Organized internationally to promote cultural understanding and exchange among students.

Since 2003 the project team has visited elementary schools in Japan and Bangladesh to introduce
their culture and schools and make gifts to each other.

 

 Social Actions

 
(for disadvantaged kids & refugees)  
   
Stop Child Abuse! (by Happy Kids team of NICE)

This is a specialized project developed by NICE

1) Organizing family workcamps 3-4 times a year
This 2 day camp aims to be a part of the prevention for the parents who are tired and are facing challenges raising their children where:
+ Parents can refresh, reflect and share their problems and know-how with other parents.
+ Children have a chance to experience nature, voluntary service and learn from cultural exchange.
+ Parents and their children can strengten and rebuild their relationship through this event.

2) Awareness campaign for the public
Four times a year (near the stations in Shinjuku and Atsugi). We distribute informative pamphlets and to over 400 people we asked questions about awareness and appropriate action to prevent and deal with this problem.

3) Activities with the orphanage
We organize a weekend workcamp in Kamakura Children's Home in Kanagawa almost every month.
Some examples: organizing a summer camp for those who have no place to go back home to during the holidays, helping with their events of making rice cake, Chirstmas party, bon-dancing, etc.

4) Activities with a group of foster families
We organize weekend workcamps with "Ken-o-Satooya-kai" (a group of foster parents in the central part of Kanagawa prefecture) to care for the foster children while the parents have seminars and we run summer camps.

5) Continuing study and research
We have a monthly meeting to further study the situation of child abuse including reports by members who have spoken with specialists. Plan for future projects and actions of the team.

6) Support to the other specialized NGOs
We have helped with fundrasing concerts of CMPN (a specialied NGO in Kanagawa against child abuse).

 

   
c) Actions with Refugee (by Refugee team of NICE)

This is a specialized project developed by NICE

1) Meeting with the refugees who are waiting to be formally registered as refugees by the Japanese government and have been forced to stay in the "jails" with foreign criminals, both in Osaka and Ibaraki.

2) Organizing special events to raise public awareness and promote cooperation among related NGOs.
The first one named "Smile Festa" was held in Osaka, in November 2004. We have also distributed
4,000 special bookmarks with some information about this issue in Tokyo.

3) Exchange with the refugees by cooking, playing football, etc.

4) Continuing study and research
We have a monthly meeting to further study the situation of refugees in Japan including reports by members who have spoken with specialists. Plan for future projects and actions of the team.

 

 Farm Stay Programs

 

(to revive agriculture)

More information coming soon!

 

 Development

 

(to support revival)

More information coming soon!

 

 

 Environment

Green Foster Parents
(forest protection)
This is one of the biggest activities in Greening Asia (a common action to protect forests) by NVDA (Network for Voluntary Development in Asia).
 
   
Aims
a) Green Japanese forests by reviving native trees
b) Green Asian forests through partnership with Asian NGOs of international voluntary projects
c) Encourage a green way of thinking by asking them to grow the seedlings
 
   
Activities

a) Green Foster parents of the seeds
In 1999, international volunteers collected seeds from Tanzawa mountains where deforestation has occured and more native trees are needed. We asked 1,300 "parents" to grow them in their homes, companies, schools, etc. for two years. We then planted over 300 trees that were grown and cared for by volunteers. We re-start this project with different seeds every year.

b) Greening Asia Fund
This Fund consists of donations, support from sponsoring foundations and fund raising. We have
collected about 4,000 US$ and part of which is used to hold tree-planting workcamps in Fiji and Mongolia. Partner NGOs in Asia are NVDA members who are help to plant trees and are able to help maintain them.

 

   
Promotion of acrylic sponge use
(for environmental protection)
This is one of the activities in Greening Asia (common action to protect forests) by NVDA (Network for Voluntary Development in Asia)
 
   
Aims
a) To improve water quality and to make the water environment cleaner by reducing the amount of washing soap that is flushed into our water systems
b) Raise awareness on the importance of protecting our natural environment and promotion of concrete actions
c) Save on the cost of buying washing soap, the time it takes to wash dishes and protect your health from the use of chemical soaps (health of your skin and of our water systems)
 
   
Activities

Step 1. You will make sponges using acryl during the workcamps, seminars, wherever!
Step 2. Then, you will use it to wash dishes without washing soap in the workcamps.
Step 3. Volunteers and local people can keep using them and promote it after the projects
* You need only acryl (which you can easily get from many shops) and only a stick to make them!

 

 

 Networking

 

(to promote international volunteering)

More information is coming!

 

 

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