{"id":15220,"date":"2025-10-31T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/?p=15220"},"modified":"2025-11-07T15:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:40:44","slug":"facility-improvement-volunteers-building-a-stage-for-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/archive\/15220","title":{"rendered":"Facility Improvement: Volunteers Building a Stage for Smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our Facility Improvement Program that works with welfare facilities like children\u2019s homes and shelters for single mothers, Habitat Japan is implementing a project to build a playground at Kodomo no Sono, a children\u2019s home in Chigasaki, Kanagawa.<a href=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20221109-26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20221109-26-288x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20221109-26-288x216.jpg 288w, https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20221109-26-960x720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20221109-26-144x108.jpg 144w, https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20221109-26-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20221109-26-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20221109-26-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20221109-26-107x80.jpg 107w, https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20221109-26-152x114.jpg 152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On October 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 2025, a total of 27 volunteers from Bloomberg, Cisco Systems<span> G.K.<\/span>, Gensler, and J.P. Morgan participated in a joint volunteer activity, helping construct an outdoor stage area and clean the interior of the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Despite cold and rainy conditions, volunteers came together as a team and tackled their work. Volunteers tasked with stage building worked hard, carrying, mortaring, and laying 90-centimeter-long wood-patterned stone tiles one by one. Volunteers kept spirits high despite difficult conditions, cheering one another on to delicately lay over half of the stage\u2019s tiles.<\/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<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-6-468x336.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-photo-item\">\n<p class=\"c-photo-item__img\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-41-468x336.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-photo-item\">\n<p class=\"c-photo-item__img\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-42-468x336.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Inside the facility, volunteers armed with wash cloths and a dream cleaned the floors and windows of the cafeteria, event hall, and even some of the facility\u2019s outer walls, bringing a shine to areas which are often hard for facility staff to attend to with their busy schedules. After lunch time, one child excitedly commented on how the windows were noticeability cleaner, highlighting how meaningful the task is to residents.<\/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<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-57-468x336.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-photo-item\">\n<p class=\"c-photo-item__img\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-61-468x336.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-photo-item\">\n<p class=\"c-photo-item__img\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-71-468x336.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After the activity, facility director Wada-san thanked the group, sharing \u201cWe are grateful for the hard work of so many volunteers despite the rain. Through today\u2019s activity, I hope that participants were able to deepen their understanding of children\u2019s homes\u201d. A volunteer also highlighted the value of this opportunity to volunteer alongside other companies and learn their values, commenting\u201cIt was a great opportunity to get to know members from other companies and learn about what kind of volunteering everyone does. I hope I have the opportunity to volunteer with everyone again someday.\u201dGoing forward we hope to create more opportunies for corporate volunteers to form teams beyond the confines of one company.<\/p>\n<p>Habitat Japan\u2019s playground project at the Kodomo no Sono children\u2019s home is currently in its second phase which will ultimately lay an outdoor stage and decorate the area with greenery before the end of this year. The third phase, installing play equipment and a foot path, is planned to mark the completion of this multi-year project by next summer. Thank you to all our volunteers and supporters who have made this project possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-127.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-127-e1761893452715.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2550\" height=\"1382\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15228 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-127-e1761893452715.jpg 2550w, https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-127-e1761893452715-304x165.jpg 304w, https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-127-e1761893452715-960x520.jpg 960w, https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-127-e1761893452715-144x78.jpg 144w, https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-127-e1761893452715-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-127-e1761893452715-1536x832.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-127-e1761893452715-2048x1110.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-127-e1761893452715-148x80.jpg 148w, https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251025-127-e1761893452715-210x114.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of our Facility Improvement Program that works with welfare facilities like children\u2019s homes and shelt [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15220","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\/15220","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15233,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220\/revisions\/15233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}