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
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
We held the second LIT program on May 20 right after our Back to Nature: Hiking Program in Mitake, Tokyo
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
The Knights in White Lycra—our main fundraiser—is hosting another fun charity event
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
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
[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
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
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
Last month we moved into our new office, and since then we have had new interns join our team
On a sunny day on November 20th, we welcomed 20 children, 4 careworkers, and 17 corporate volunteers to beautiful Mitake