Date: February 2-3, 2019 Location: Tsunan, Niigata Sponsor: KEEN Partner: English Adventure Participants: 33 campers, 7 care workers, 6 high school students, 4 sponsors, 12 Mirai no Mori staff and volunteers Program: This year, we went to Tsunan in Niigata, where is very famous for its heavy snowfall for our annual snow-surfing program with our long-term partner, KEEN
Phil Robertson Co-founder and co-owner of Honyaku Plus Three years ago, Phil Robertson joined a Tokyo-based philanthropic cycling group known as the Knights in White Lycra, with the intention of getting fitter and giving something back to Japanese society
This special LIT program was held in the snowy town of Tsunan in Niigata
Unique charity T-shirts designed by Professor Kurakake, ambassador of KEEN, inspired by our mission "Change begins In the outdoors” are now on sale! KEEN official site： 1) A big tree design in white 2) Forest design in beige & navy With a very generous support from KEEN, JPY 1,600 out of JPY3,000 will be donated to Mirai no Mori programs for the children we support
Mirai no Mori is happy to announce that we have received an award for “Excellent NPO” at the 6th annual Excellent NPO ceremony
Pedaru is a bicycle sharing platform in Japan that takes unused bicycles from owners who no longer need them, and shares them through their mobile application with users who want to access a bicycle
Location: NORTHSTAR Alpine Lodge, Nagano Participants: 43 campers from 9 different homes, 4 LIT, 11 care workers, 9 Mirai no Mori staff Date: January 3-6, 2019 Program: Winter Camp: We did it! Thank you again to all of our wonderful supporters that made this Winter Camp possible
Date: Saturday, December 15th ~ Sunday, December 16th Place: Mitake Program: The Back to Nature Program was the end of year Christmas program, and it was one of the biggest we had, with over 70 participants! LITs had a several tasks, starting with supporting campers and staff for preparation to welcome bicycle-riding Santa
Date: Tuesday, December 18th Location: HARAJUKU QUEST HALL Participants: 95 wonderful supporters Raffle Prize Donors: KEEN JAPAN - Shoes Voucher Circus Outdoor TOKYO - Coupon and Original Plates Flan - Voucher Jaybird - Sports Earphone Kansas - Clean Distilled Le Cordon Bleu - Cooking Lesson Mitake Race Rafting - Rafting Tour Nomadics - Yoga Mat and Backpack Northstar - Voucher Okaikosan - Wood Giftset Sanober san - Christmas Cake Individual Supporters - Champagne, Eco-bag, Red Wine, Sake, Stained Glass Art, Watch Special sponsor: KEEN JAPAN Sponsor: EMS CORPORATION Supported by: IMADEYA・Smile Corp
Date: Saturday, December 15th Location: Mitake Participants: 38 campers, 5 care workers, 3 LITs, 10 sponsors, 8 Mirai no Mori staff, 1 special guest, 7 KIWL santas Program: For the last Back to Nature Program of 2018, as many as 70 people gathered around in Mitake under beautiful weather! We started off with some fun English games to get to know each other, and divided into teams to decorate the room, bake cookies, and write Christmas cards for KIWL santas! The decoration team did a great job making a beautiful Christmas tree, the cookie team baked huge cookies with the help of the special guest Sanober san, and the card team went outside and created special Christmas card using little branches
Rob Williams Knights in White Lycra Rob Williams, founder of Knights in White Lycra, knows first-hand how fulfilling it can be to test one’s own boundaries
Date: Saturday, January 19th ~ Sunday, January 20th Location: Tsunan Program: This LIT program will be held in Tsunan, Niigata prefecture! The LITs will prepare for the last project of the year