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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The town of Matsushima decided to tear down an old, derelict pool and in its place build a new children’s center for local kids and families to enjoy. One of the local officials working on this project had participated in a Playground of Hope build in Tohoku. Although Matsushima town had not been damaged as
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On 3.11, the grounds of Nakazato Elementary School was filled with water from the tsunami and the gym quickly became filled with evacuees from the city of Ishinomaki. Despite this, the local community and children worked hard to hold their sports festival that year. Many children from other elementary schools in area also transferred to
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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 9 years ago. Kazusanosato has a cheerful atmosphere, and all the staff are warm
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Our second visit to Koyama Home in 2015 was a follow-up to the RLLC earlier in the year. The younger children in the home also hoped for a see-saw, soccer nets and a picnic table. Together with our sponsor, Blackstone, PoH went to the home to provide more play equipment for the children. It was
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During the initial weeks of the 3/11 disaster this beautiful park and adjacent Japanese shrine had served as an evacuation center. Before that time, local children, families and several kindergartens had use this park to play in for decades due to its central location and natural beauty. Unfortunately, for young children who had to evacuate
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.
Although the school is not far from the coast, Komagamine Elementary School was protected by the tsunami by an electrical power plant in the area that took the majority of the hit. 220 lives were lost in Shinchimachi on that day. The school has grown in size due to a large number of families from
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Aoi Chiku is a newly constructed residential area in Higashi Matsushima City in Miyagi Prefecture. Built on land that was once only rice paddies, the new neighborhood is home to 580 families, with over 1,500 residents and 200 plus children. The project was jointly developed by Higashi Matsushima City and Urban Renaissance (UR). Playground of
PoH established a strong relationship with Koyama Home, having built a play set and painting the facilities in December of 2013. We returned to the location to improve the grounds at the home and work with the children with the RLLC. Every day the home went through many banadages as the children’s natural desire to
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