Tokyo Volunteer Action Center
"Summer is the season for volunteering in Japan," says Akiko Kawamura, one of four English-speaking staff at TVAC, Tokyo’s remarkable volunteer networking center located in Iidabashi, notes Metropolis:
"Teachers often assign a volunteer activity as summer vacation homework for their students," explains Kawamura, grabbing a pamphlet from stacks of volunteer-program brochures. "It's a chance for them to do some 'service learning,' to find out about their community, who lives there, what kinds of needs there are and what they can do."
Along with 40 city and village volunteer centers throughout Tokyo, TVAC manages a network of more than 1,000 volunteer activities. One can choose to help the elderly, handicapped, children, hospitals, or many different kinds of NPOs (nonprofit organizations) including international charities and environmental groups.
The website of Tokyo Volunteer Action Center is only in Japanese, but Tokyo Nihongo Volunteer Network has an English page about its language services.
"Teachers often assign a volunteer activity as summer vacation homework for their students," explains Kawamura, grabbing a pamphlet from stacks of volunteer-program brochures. "It's a chance for them to do some 'service learning,' to find out about their community, who lives there, what kinds of needs there are and what they can do."
Along with 40 city and village volunteer centers throughout Tokyo, TVAC manages a network of more than 1,000 volunteer activities. One can choose to help the elderly, handicapped, children, hospitals, or many different kinds of NPOs (nonprofit organizations) including international charities and environmental groups.
The website of Tokyo Volunteer Action Center is only in Japanese, but Tokyo Nihongo Volunteer Network has an English page about its language services.
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