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This is the last Playground of Hope build of 2014.
We will build a playground at Kamome Gakuen, a school for the disabled in Ishinomaki.
The building activity on Saturday, December 13th, will be followed by an opening ceremony on Sunday, the 14th.
Autumn has come and the best season for volunteer activity has also come! We will have an Okinawa dance performance for the victims who are still living at a temporary housing 3 years after the tsunami. We will also support to re-built a historical monument facing a beautiful beach and we will have an opening ceremony for it with the Okinawa dance. We are really looking forward to your participation.
Autumn has come which is a nice time for volunteering. Team Nadia is going to Ishinomaki between Sep 26 (Fri) night and Sep 28 (Sun). The victims will be happy to see you and you will also use your positive energy through very rewarding activities. Please register soon, places are limited! The number of volunteer has to be limited around 13 people due to the bus size.
The currently planned activities are as following:
1. Shrine painting at a beautiful seaport called Orinohama
2. Fixing a historical monument at the same seaport
3. Cutting big trees which died due to damage from salt at another shrine
4. Food support for a festival held by the Ishinomaki social welfare council
The hot summer is coming! We are going to Ishinomaki to support the kids festival in Ishinomaki. This will be the 3rd time for us to support and it must be fun to see children growing up with the years. We are planning some other activities as well.
July trip date (2 days):
Friday 11 from 11 p.m. – return Sunday 13 in the evening.
The main activities is:
* Kids matsuri (festival)
Please bring your kids along! We will be helping out by preparing food and games for Ishinomaki and Kanto kids. This event was big fun last 2 years so don’t miss it. Japanese drums will also entertain all participants.
Adults will also be very helpful to carry the heavy shrine and support in making it a success. We hope to see many of you this time again!
It is almost 3 years since the disaster and it is great to learn that many schools will finally be re-opened in April, some by governments, some privately. It is so important to get these schools back up and running because otherwise parents are unable to return to the area, meaning that companies recovering from the disaster do not have enough employees.
While schools are being rebuilt, with many of them opening in April, these are being built with the very minimum resources due to the severe shortages of funding (especially for privately operated schools) and contractors who are in high demand.
Dogen-in is just one such example. A temple located at the top of the hill, became a refugee camp for more than 400 victims immediately after the tsunami for many weeks (http://www15.ocn.ne.jp/~
Nadia has put together a number of sponsors and will be donating the following:
Now we need volunteers to build all these items over the weekend of March 14-16, in time for the opening ceremony of the Hoikuen on 16th March.
The overall itinerary is as follows:
14th March – 11pm – Depart Shinjuku by bus
15th March – 6am – Arrive Ishinomaki
15th March – 8am-3:30pm -Volunteer work
16th March – 8am-10am – Volunteer work
16th March – 10:30am-2pm – Opening Ceremony
16th March – 2:30pm – Depart Ishinomaki
16th March – 9pm – Arrive Shinjuku
This will be a very hard-working, highly rewarding experience, with lots of fun with many great volunteers! In addition, volunteers will be welcomed at the Opening Ceremony on 16th where they can meet the kids and children we do this for, as well as those who helped make this work.
We hope many of you can join us!