Education Japan Project #25405

Provide education tour for children in Kumamoto

by sweet treat 311

Provide education tour for children in Kumamoto

Project Report | Jan 30, 2018
Getting ready for a new exciting year!

By Gentaro Yui | Director

Dear supporter,

Happy new year! We are very thankful for your support in 2017. Last year was another special year for us, going into third year in operation receiving over one thousand children locally as well as internationally. Ninety four year old sturucture, former public elementary school is full of energy. Locals are feeling that their community once damaged by tsunami is revitalized. This winter has been a cold one, but we including animals are charging ourselves for spring/ summer season!

Local develepment is still slow. Permanent homes are almost completed, and locals are starting to coming back to their hometown. Local elementary school and middle school has opened its door in September 2017. There are many walls, about 9 meters tall, covering the coastal line to block big tsunami for the future.

We have organized second invitation tour of Kumamoto children last summer, participating to our one week program. Mixed with children gathered from all over the world, they have engaged many experiences in nature, with local people, as well as sustainble methods at MORIUMIUS. They seemed happy to be away from the disaster area, seemed relaxed and enjoyed spending time with other children.

I am going to visit Kumamoto in order to meet and discuss with our local partner to invite children in 2018. Planning to invite in summer or in fall. As Tohoku region becoming leader in reconstruction from disaster, I feel that we will keep trying to invite children from other disaster area. I hope being away from home create confort for those children as well as to feel the energy of reconstruction in ther area will empower them.

Thank you again for your support. Without it, we would not be able to provide unique learning opportunities as well as interaction to local communities. I hope to grow and continue this great venture so that the community will revitalize through education.

Warm regards,

Gentaro Yui

Back to all project reports

About Project Reports

Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.

If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.