YONENOMIYA PARK
7th annual maintenance project with JATCO donated play set in 2015.
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Yonemiya Koen
We don’t have the opportunity to work with many Japanese sponsors but when we do it’s always a great experience, especially when it is supporting a local community at the foot of Mt. Fuji. This Get Out and Play Day is our 4th annual event with JATCO and has become quite a popular event with
Fuji City Yonenomiya Park Maintenance & Free Play Festival
As part of the third JATCO-Playground of Hope collaboration, JATCO volunteers have returned to Fuji City’s Yonenomiya Park where they had built a playset in September 2015. With the playset having been used heavily by the local children as witnessed by the faded away paint on its floors and by the turf that disappeared from
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Kouyama Park with Kodomo no Ie
Rain or Shine We Play! Despite a rainy start on both Saturday and Sunday, PoH had a wonderful time together with our sponsor, J.P. Morgan and Kodomonoie Children’s Home! On Saturday, we put together a brand new play set at the park near the local children’s center. And Sunday, we prepared delicious sandwiches (planned by
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Isumi City, Oohara Elementary School
This is a Playground of Hope first! While in the past Playground of Hope has worked with city hall, public schools, as well as children’s homes. Thanks to the support of our sponsor, Hilton Tokyo Bay, we were able to bring Isumi City together with Koyama Home children’s home and build a play set for
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Isehara Sogo Undo Koen
Children made cars, castles and houses using cardboard boxes and other everyday items combined with Imagination Playground at our first pop-up playground event. The event was held together with JATCO at Isehara City Sports Park. In the morning, more than thirty JATCO volunteers gathered to lay down patches of grass, refill the sandbox with sand
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GTF Green Day Challenge 2015
The Playground of Hope was delighted to be invited to take part in the annual Greater Tokyo Festival in Shinjuku Park, once the private park of the Japanese Emperor! Although a cultural event by nature due to the many children and families that visit each year, event organizers invited PoH to bring its Imagination Playground
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Yonenomiya Park
A classic public / private collaboration driven by PoH supporter! A volunteer from one of our first projects in Tohoku suggested to his company, JATCO (Nissan subsidiary), that they consider a park project in Fuji city where they have their largest factory in Japan. To our delight, their marketing and communications department loved the idea.
MIDTOWN SUMMER 2015
As part of our efforts to expand our activities beyond building play sets and other such things, PoH participated in the Tokyo Midtown’s annual summer festival. The idea is to provide children, of various ages and nationalities, an opportunity to interact play together. In doing so children get to hone their interpersonal communication and problem
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Tokyo Yamathon 2015
yYamathon is an annual event run by IVG Japan since 2010. At Yamathon, teams of 3-4 supporters run together around the Tokyo Yamanoto Line, visiting each station. The money raised by IVG goes to various charities. In 2015, IVG worked hard to raise funds for a PoH project in Ofunato, Iwate Japan. To show our
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