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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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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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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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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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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Aisenryou Children’s Home is part of the Ainoizumi Social Welfare group, which runs several facilities, including a kindergarten of 140 children, after-school care, and senior housing. There are about 88 children between the ages of 2-18. This was Playground of Hope’s first project with Aisenryou, and the first location to be involved with our new
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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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