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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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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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.
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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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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