Date: December 19, 2023Place: Chiba, JapanParticipants: 7 campers, 5 LITs, 1 graduate, 6 Mirai no Mori staff & interns, 21 sponsorsSponsor: Morgan StanleyProgram: On a chilly winter day just before the winter solstice, we had our third visit to a care home with Morgan Stanley volunteers
Date: December 16&17Location: Mitake, TokyoParticipants: (Saturday) 22 campers, 6 care workers, 8 LITs, 7 Mirai no Mori staff, 7 sponsors / (Sunday) 31 campers, 10 care workers, 9 LITs, 9 Mirai no Mori staff, 6 sponsorsSponsors: Oracle & Asurion In-kind donors: Morgan Stanley (craft supplies) / Costco (snacks) / Wahl+Case (snacks) / RICHEMONT JAPAN LIMITED (snacks and Christmas cards) / Namako sensei (cake) / Decathlon (gifts for LITs) / SPEC from Yokohama International School (craft supplies) Program: We had our last program in 2023, with a heartwarming and lively atmosphere
November and December were also months with many opportunities for the graduates to interact not only with Mirai-no-Mori staff but also with our supporters
Date: Thursday, December 7, 2023Place: Warehouse TERADA B&C HALL (KEEN exhibition site)Participants: about 130 people (including guests and volunteers)Sponsor: KEENPro-bono support: WildTame (welcome video) / Satoshi Aoki (photos) / Nayalan Moodley (video)Catering: Farm Canning Mirai no Mori Winter Party 2023, held for the first time in four years and celebrating our 10th anniversary, was a great success with so many guests and volunteers! This year's party was a perfect opportunity to reminisce about the past 10 years and to raise a toast to the dreams of the children we serve
Date: November 18-19Location: Hachioji, Tokyo The Back to Nature program this month was a forestry program in Takao
Date: Noveber 18&19Location: Hachioji, TokyoParticipants: (Saturday) 10 campers, 4 care workers, 7 LITs, 8 Mirai no Mori staff, 14 sponsors / (Sunday) 9 campers, 2 care workers, 7 LITs, 7 Mirai no Mori staff, 11 sponsorsSponsors: Michael Page & Avanade Program: On sunny Autumn days, we enjoyed the kikori program with the big group of our energetic campers, care workers, sponsors and LITs
Series #9 with Anne Smith, translation volunteer & monthly supporter As Mirai no Mori celebrates its 10th anniversary, we have been interviewing our supporters from various fields to share their “voices” with you
Date: November 12, 2023Location: Futakotamagawa, TokyoParticipants: about 50 participants, 5 volunteers, 6 LITs, 2 Graduates, 8 Mirai no Mori staff and internsPro-bono photographers: Gordon Davis & Satoshi Aoki “KIWL x Mirai-no-Mori x Ecomarathon Go-Go Run & Walk Festival”, organized by KIWL (Knights in White Lycra) and Eco-marathon, was held in Futakotamagawa
September and October were great season for sports, with many of our graduates participating in other organizations' sports events
Date: October 14-15Location: Hachioji & Mitake, Tokyo Back to Nature program this month was a farm program on Saturday and a hiking program on Sunday
Series #8 with Kazuya Miki, from Mori-to-Odoru As Mirai no Mori celebrates its 10th anniversary, we have been interviewing our supporters from various fields to share their “voices” with you
Date: October 15Location: Mitake, TokyoParticipants: 17 campers, 6 care worker, 8 LITs, 8 Mirai no Mori staff, 8 sponsors Sponsor: Morgan Stanley Program: Despite the weather concerns, we had a hiking program that allowed us to enjoy the various 5 senses, which ranged from a rainy hike to a sunny river play