Support for children in disaster areas in Japan

We are making a place together with local residents and volunteer groups while assisting them to manage the Koganehama Chibikko Hiroba (children’s playground). Some play tools in the playground were made by together with children, and the others were donated.

We have made those tools from the things in there, such as a wood suffered salt damage and debris carried by the tsunami.

In this time, we have built an earth oven out of a drum can, clay, mud, sand, a stone, a rock, a straw, etc.

The team consisting of first year elementary school students treaded on the material in order to mix clay with mud. “Feeling good!” they said. They seemed to like touching it, and enjoyed searching the most pleasant point. We also carried a stone and a rock with them.

We putting the mixed material including straws, and formed the oven. The inside of the drum was decorated uniquely by children.

It will go through several processes in order to be completed, and in the end of the process, the inside will be dried by burning a wood.

Because almost all materials were natural things, we could clean up with children after working.

Although people have to spend longer time and gather other people in order to make a required thing by themselves, they can get an attachment or a relation to it. People cannot buy those things, even though they can buy the materials and make it easier.

We would like to cook a pizza topped with vegetables grown in the field on the playground, by using the oven. We hope the oven promotes community relations for all people.

Links:

• HP of this project