The 30,000+ children who live in Japanese care homes include orphans and children who have been victims of neglect or abuse. When they leave institutional care at 18 (as the law requires), they face a highly uncertain future. The Mirai no Mori NPO runs excellent programs that help support these children. These include summer and winter camps at which the children can learn valuable skills that will give them a better chance in life, a Leaders-in-Training initiative which teaches the older children to proactively support the younger kids, and a support network that maintains close ties with care-home graduates after leaving institutional care, as they attempt to forge new lives as young, independent adults.
We (the Knights in White Lycra) will be cycling 500 km over the course of four days, over mountainous terrain, around the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, where we will meet some of the children who are benefitting from Mirai no Mori's inspirational projects.
(The Noto Peninsula fell victim to a severe earthquake in January of last year, and we will also be meeting and assisting local residents who suffered in the wake of the disaster.)
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