Providing Volunteer Opportunities in Japan

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Summary

We make it easy for both foreigners and Japanese to volunteer to help the Tokyo community, no matter what language they speak. We have pretested projects and put the societal needs in context for all. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Even with the growing societal concerns in Japan, structured volunteerism is very new to Japanese society. In addition, the nonprofit sector is very underdeveloped. There are no tax laws to encourage charitable giving, and not much encouragement is given to individuals who wish to volunteer. With all of these factors, there are true impediments to volunteering in Japan for both Japanese and foreign nationals. We aim to address these concerns by providing bilingual volunteer opportunities.

Activities

We are doing our part to grow the "3rd" sector in Tokyo. While helping friends or family is a cultural norm here, assisting those you don't know is a more recent development. We're helping foreigners & Japanese serve the community better together.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $70,132
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $259,868
Total Funding Goal: $330,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Hands On Tokyo(HOT) serves as a bilingual volunteer organization connecting 200 volunteers to worthy projects within the Tokyo community. HOT will assist approximately 500 seniors, children and adults in participating more fully in society.

Project Message

HOT is not only able to connect volunteers with NPOs, but also to provide traditionally understaffed NPOs with additional resources to plan and implement volunteer programs.
- Dawson (Steven) Lin, President and CEO Asia, CAPMARK

Who is Running This Project

Contact

D. Steven Lin,
Board Chairman
Kamiyacho MT Bldg. 14th Floor
4-3-20 Toranomon, Minato-ku
Tokyo, 105-0001
Japan
n/a
Email:

Project Sponsor

Hands On Network

Organization

Hands on Tokyo
Kamiyacho MT Bldg. 14th Floor
4-3-20 Toranomon, Minato-ku
Tokyo, n/a 105-0001
Japan
81-3-5404-3563
http://www.handsontokyo.org

Learn more about Hands on Tokyo and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Japan and can also be found under Democracy and Governance.

For more information about Japan, read the Human Development Report on Japan or the Wikipedia entry for Japan.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on June 24, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 22, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

An Update on Our Project

By Hands on Tokyo - , January 18, 2008 05:59 PM

Hands On Tokyo has about 200 registered volunteers with 17 different nationalities, as of December 19, 2007. Since we started our first project in March, 2007, about 500 volunteers served for more than 1100 hours!

On September 29, 2007, Hands On Tokyo had the first annual "Day of Service" and accomplished three projects by about 120 volunteers. Those projects are:

(1)Distribute fliers of soup kitchen and some food to homeless people

(2)Rebuilt the yard at nursery for 0-2 year old babies who can not live with their parents

(3)Having festival at Senior home

Thank you so much for your generous support!

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