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Are there any foreigners who are deeply involved in Volunteer work in Japan? |
Travel Info Are there any foreigners out there who run their own volunteer organizations. For Example: Mountain cleaning, River cleaning.organization for the betterment of women and children.D.V. AIDS , education etc. Travel Tips There are volunteering jobs around..of course..you just need to find these organizations.. I attended some but mostly Japanese are the main organizers.. I still do lots of voluntary work after leaving Japan. There is no way that can stop me because of my job....Even in our company in Japan with thousands of employees,,we did find time to volunteer even once a month or quarterly..Sometimes my boss would tell me a joke that they won't pay me because I accepted some volunteering jobs outside.. I don't know the reason why you are asking this..but I was one of the active volunteer in Japan before..I did join groups of people from town to clean streets., etc.community events..etc.. Maybe you can ask the churches if they know any volunteer organizations too.. If there are homeless people around the city, I am sure there are people who are volunteering to serve them food or give clothes etc..For teen-agers who have problems,,or educating about AIDS..I remember I attended one when I was in Tokyo.. Volunteering is part of my learning...as well as serving people..no money involved...I think lots of foreigners do that too in Japan.. There are reasons why people volunteer...and if there are people who have no time to get involved in their community..there might be a reason for everything. I was one workaholic myself in Japan still managed to get involved in volunteering...and glad I did! Others May I answer frankly? I was unemployed in France and I moved to Japan to get a job. I was a kind of male version of housewife and I saw so many people sleeping in the street. I wanted to do something for them but, after I got a job, there was no way to escape from the professional life and I could not do anything I planned when I arrived. Most of the foreigners are like me. Once they start working, there is no time to do anything. I'll add in a bit to the above. Not only does Japan require a bit more overtime work than a typical country, but the average person loses AT LEAST 2 hours a day commuting by train, often more. Not having a car, and having to get everywhere by bicycle or train makes it much less likely for anyone to want to invest the time to get to and from a volunteer site. Then add in the language barrier. Most foreigners here can't speak the language, which really limits options. Free time gets eaten up by daily chores, which take 10 times longer when you can't speak the language. Try going to the bank without speaking the language, taking care of bills, going to the hospital, etc. Setting up a volunteer organization would require native-level Japanese, and people with that skill are probably working too hard paying the bills to have free time for volunteering. Lastly, many foreigners here work as teachers, and often just want to be alone or with friends on days off, rather than engaging in any activity requiring the mental stress of communicating across the language barrier, which is too much like work. |
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