{"id":15019,"date":"2025-05-29T09:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T00:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/?p=15019"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T00:12:38","slug":"habitat-japan-and-carrier-collaborate-to-plant-trees-at-local-childrens-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/archive\/15019","title":{"rendered":"Habitat Japan and Carrier Collaborate to Plant Trees at Local Children\u2019s Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KNS202504_4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KNS202504_4-288x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" class=\"alignright wp-image-28931 size-medium\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On April 26, 25 volunteers from <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toshiba-carrier.co.jp\/\">Carrier Japan<\/a><\/span> helped plant 24 trees at Kodomo no Sono, a children\u2019s home in Chigasaki-City, Kanagawa Prefecture.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This tree planting activity is part of Habitat Japan\u2019s ongoing project at the same home to build a playground in the facility\u2019s underutilized hilly backyard. Carrier has been a major and consistent supporter of this project. Breaking ground last winter together with volunteers from Carrier and other corporations the project is making steady progress.<\/p>\n<p><span><div class=\"c-photo\">\n<ul class=\"c-photo-body c-photo-body--row3\">\n<li class=\"c-photo-item\">\n<p class=\"c-photo-item__img\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/8a85ad1ea7c3c46a1aa0e36fc42a542c.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/8a85ad1ea7c3c46a1aa0e36fc42a542c-468x336.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-photo-item\">\n<p class=\"c-photo-item__img\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/098f894f17e51b5ca0ae1d220d75ab39.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/098f894f17e51b5ca0ae1d220d75ab39-468x336.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-photo-item\">\n<p class=\"c-photo-item__img\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0919ec8f9f272833b621e0ef66cec2ee.jpg\" class=\"lightbox\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0919ec8f9f272833b621e0ef66cec2ee-468x336.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Under the supervision of tree planting experts, volunteers worked diligently to dig holes to plant 24 tree saplings from four native varieties. Several saplings, including three maples, will require support as they grow. Taking advantage of the bamboo forest growing within the home\u2019s grounds, volunteers harvested bamboo stalks, cutting them to size and tying them together to create support structures for the saplings. By the end of the day, volunteers had created a colorful, enriching, and sustainable environment for children to enjoy for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Habitat Japan offers its sincere thanks to Carrier for the continued support of the playground project at Kodomo no Sono and the team\u2019s direct involvement in the project\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KNS202504_8.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KNS202504_8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" class=\"alignright wp-image-28933 size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-area__main\">\n<article>\n<section>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><em>The tree-planting activity is part of Habitat Japan\u2019s playground project at Kodomo no Sono. The playground will be constructed in several phases. To make this project a reality, Habitat Japan relies on the generous support of its corporate sponsors. If your company would like to get involved, please get in touch with Habitat Japan <a href=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/support\/corporategiving\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-area__side\">\n<ul class=\"side-cat\"><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On April 26, 25 volunteers from Carrier Japan helped plant 24 trees at Kodomo no Sono, a children\u2019s home in Ch [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15049,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15019\/revisions\/15049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}