Daichinoie is a children’s home under the care of the Shiseigakusha Tachikawa Social Welfare Group, which has a long history of over 100 years. For the past few years, Playground of Hope has been working to find a sponsor to support these children by cleaning up and improving their grounds near the Tama River. We […]
Playground of Hope first built the playset at Sagamihara Minami Jidou Home in Fall of 2015. At the request of the home, we returned to do maintenance on the playset, as well as have a lunch BBQ with the children at the home. With a variety of volunteers, as well as some youth volunteers from
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Two years ago, Playground of Hope’s first project with Kodomonoie Children’s Home included installing a play set as well as painting the outer walls of the facility to brighten up the area. We have always wanted to go back and complete the inner wall of the facility, and for two days on November 17th and
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After two months of planning and preparing, the committee of children at Children’s Home Kodomonoie in Kiyose City, together with the amazing support of sponsors and mentors from J.P. Morgan held another successful Halloween Party at the home. In it’s third year, Halloween at this home continues to get better and better, thanks to the
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As part of Hilton’s annual Global Month of Service (GMS), Playground of Hope is thrilled to work again with Hilton Worldwide and Elliott Management to improve the lives of children in Japan. This year we visited Hikarinoko Gakuen, a lovely children’s home located in Tateyama, Chiba. Despite the heavy rain the afternoon, over 70 amazing
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On Friday, October 14th, together with the wonderful team from Blackstone, we visited Koyama Home children’s home in Isumi, Chiba. This is the second year for Blackstone to visit the home and help support the wonderful children by renewing their play set, building some benches, replacing a broken basketball hoop and providing new baseball/softball goods.
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Nozominomon Kazusanosato is a children’s home in Chiba and has a strong role in the local community. There are currently 35 children living at the home. The facility used to be a public school and was remodeled to a children’s facility 10 years ago. Kazusanosato has a cheerful atmosphere, and all the staff are warm
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Kamakura Jidou Home is part of the Seionkai Social Welfare group, which also runs two senior care facilities in Kanagawa Prefecture. The home was first established in 1896, and renovated in 2003. Currently there are 73 children at the home, making it one of the larger children’s homes in Japan. Previously the home only had
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Sagamihara Minami Jidou Home is a new children’s home, which opened in April of 2014. It was established in order to answer the needs of children both in the local area as well as nationwide. Upon opening, it quickly filled with 22 infants (ages 0-2) and 43 children (ages 2-18). Most children’s homes separate nursery
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For the second year in a row, PoH held a Halloween Party at the Kodomonoie. Last year, it was lead by our sponsors, but this year we decided to have the children plan and prepare for the event as another participant of the RLLC. With a committee of children from 4th grade elementary school to
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