We’re delighted to share with you some of the pictures from our 5th successful playground installation in beautiful Kesennuma! This time we were at Aikou Kindergarten with our excellent sponsors from Supercell. Twelve volunteers from Supercell worked side-by-side with the teachers from the school for2 hot days. The principal of the school provided such a […]
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What a beautiful and fun day it was in Kimitsu, Chiba to work together with 25 team members from Hilton Tokyo Bay and staff and children from Hagukuminomori Kimitsu Children’s Home to complete a large play set and BBQ event. Although it rained for a bit, the sun shine broke through the clouds just as
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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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Playground of Hope is always happy to be introduced to new locations in need of play! We were first introduced to Iitoyo Elementary School in Soma City, Fukushima by the principal of our 2015 project at Komagamine Elementarcy School in the neighboring city of Shinchimachi, Fukushima. Just a few days before our scheduled build and
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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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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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