Tanabata Party Report
Date: July 5th, 2017 Location: BNP Paribas Participants: 90 people Raffle Prize Donors: BNP Paribas Hollywood May's Garden Spa KEEN Life
Blogs
Leader in Training Program vol. 3 Report
Location: Ikusabata, Ome City Participants: 6 LITs and 4 volunteers Partners: Date: June 11, 2017 Program: In the 3rd session of the LIT program, the six high school students attended a lecture on camping and applied Maslow's hierarchy of needs to specific camping scenarios
June Back to Nature Program: Outdoor Cooking Report
Location: Ikusabata, Ome City Participants: 6 campers, 6 LITs, 2 care workers, 10 volunteers Sponsor: Date: June 10, 2017 Program: We had a fulfilling Back to Nature program thanks to the LITs! Using the knowledge gained from previous sessions, the LITs taught and led the English Games as well as explained to campers and volunteers the different cooking tasks for the day, which included building a fire to cook hotdogs and make dessert, cutting the toppings for the hotdogs, slicing the apples, and making dough for the delicious apple dessert
New annual Leader in Training (LIT) program vol. 2
We held the second LIT program on May 20 right after our Back to Nature: Hiking Program in Mitake, Tokyo
Back to Nature Hiking program
Our Back to Nature: Hiking Program on May 20 was a success thanks to the campers and volunteers! We enjoyed great weather and played Nature Bingo while walking through the forest using a compass to determine our location
Band Night
The Knights in White Lycra—our main fundraiser—is hosting another fun charity event
Back to Nature
It’s time for a new adventure with our Back to Nature: Hiking program! Campers will be taught how to navigate and guide themselves using just a compass and a map
May Ride
For its fifth anniversary, the Knights in White Lycra (KIWL) will see more than 40 riders complete a 550km journey from Tokyo to Ichinoseki, with an aim of raising sufficient funds to send 25 children to the Mirai no Mori Winter Camp for the next three years
June Back to Nature: Outdoor Cooking
Can you smell food in the air? Our next Back to Nature event is all about cooking in the outdoors and how to have fun while doing it! We’ll be testing our Dutch oven skills, playing games in English, and acting out funny skits
The Knights in White Lycra 2017
[youtube K-57FwIY1x4] The Knights in White Lycra (KIWL) is a Tokyo-based, all-inclusive amateur cycling team consisting of male and female cyclists of diverse ages, abilities, and nationalities
Back to Nature: Art Workshop on February 18th
Our Back to Nature Art program was a lovely experience where volunteers and campers together were able to express themselves through handicrafts! The youth and the volunteers enjoyed creating snowy landscapes together with twigs and stones they found while out enjoying the scenery of the Tama River
Back to Nature: Snow Adventure on March 4-5
We had an amazing time together in Nagano! It was so wonderful to see the campers gathering the strength to try out something so far from their comfort zones