Date: May 18, 2024Place: Takao, TokyoParticipants: 23 campers, 8 big campers, 3 LITs, 8 Mirai no Mori staff, 3 sponsors, 3 program partnersSponsor: Oracle On a sunny May 18th, the green slopes of Takao buzzed with excitement as this year's first Kikori Back to Nature program kicked off
Date: April 7 & 27~28 Location: Mirai no Mori office & Ome, Tokyo Another year of the LIT program has started, with new and repeating members
Date: April 27 & 28, 2024Place: Sawai, TokyoParticipants: (2-day total) 17 campers, 7 big campers, 7 LITs, 12 Mirai no Mori staff On a pleasant spring-like day, the first activity of the 2024 fiscal year was held under the theme of "New Beginnings,” inspired by Easter
March and April were a time with a lot of big changes for most of the graduates
Date: April 20th, 2024Place: Mitake, TokyoParticipants: 1 LIT, 6 Graduates, 5 Mirai no Mori staff, 25 KIWL Riders, 3 Team WildTame With the warm weather officially starting in the Kanto area, we had BBQ lunch as a Graduate Program
Date: April 5 & 6Participants: 169 people + 10 Mirai No Mori volunteers + 1 Program Graduate + 4 LITs as volunteers “KIWL Imperial Palace Charity Walk”, organized by KIWL (Knights in White Lycra) and Mirai no Mori, was held in the weekend with the full bloom sakura trees! We are delighted to announce that a total of about 180 people, including Mirai no Mori program graduates and LITs as volunteers, came together and raised ¥770,000
Date: March 29, 2024Location: Tokyo Columbia Sportswear Japan has been a continuous supporter of Mirai no Mori since 2017, particularly for the LIT program
Date: March 25th, 2024Location: Tokyo Amazon Audible, an audiobook and audio entertainment service provider, gave LITs a chance to visit their workplace, and we visited their office in Meguro
Date: March 16-17 Location: Tokyo Workshop support: Oracle This month’s program was the LIT closing ceremony, the last program of this fiscal year
Date: February 17-18 & 24-25Location: Tsunan, Niigata This month’s Back to Nature program was the last 2 sessions of the Snow Program
Date: February 17~18 & 24~25, 2024Place: Tsunan, NiigataParticipants: (4-day total) 47 campers, 14 big campers, 8 LITs, 2 graduates, 9 Mirai no Mori staff, 7 KEEN staff Following on from January, we held another Snow Programs in February
January and February were months with many opportunities for graduates to interact with campers and LITs, as 3 graduates participated in Mirai no Mori's very popular Snow Program as kitchen volunteers