Hanawa

CODE: NICE-25S-0808A

Work:

Volunteers will mainly help and join the festival by making some big lanterns TORO (2 x 2 meters) and hundreds of small lanterns together with local students. Volunteers can design your own large TORO in a group and will float it down a river in the festival.
It will be physically demanding work.

Accomodation and food

Volunteers will stay local community building. It will be very simple life style and a Japanese style(sleeping on Tatami). Room is shared with every volunteers. Meals are cooked by volunteers by turns. Sleeping bag is necessary.

Location and leisure

Location: Small town in the southern part of Fukushima. the population is about 7,650.
The town is famous for beautiful flower named Dahlia in Aug. to Oct. Leisure: Experience of Japanese Drum, sports, exchange parties, hot spring, etc.
Volunteers will be able to do Homestay in local house.

Project hosted by

This project is actively working for SDGs 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), organized together with a local NGO for community development named KOBOSHA since 1996. Volunteers will join the summer festival called TORO NAGASHI that is a memorial service for ancestors by making lanterns named TORO and floating them down a river. Volunteers will make large TORO (2 x 2 meters) for the festival in this workcamp. Project aims to mobilize the local community with workcampers. Through this workcamp, the local community will be much more activated, redeveloping pride for their community!

Directions to meeting point

Additional comments

Study theme: Activate the isolated community with suffer from depopulation through the festival and good practices in your country Participation fee: 9,000 JPY (59 USD by the rate on 2024 April 19th) of NICE Volunteers fee need to be paid in advance either by Card or PayPal. This is used for the project preparation/ coordination such as the transportation of the camp leaders while the meals and the accommodation are provided by the local host by free (so, your fee is not used for your meals and accommodation!). Other: Japanese volunteers will start workcamp from Aug. 7th.