{"id":13750,"date":"2010-09-26T20:36:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T00:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13750"},"modified":"2011-03-08T01:02:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T05:02:57","slug":"jet-roi-jet-alum-creates-program-for-jets-to-volunteer-at-orphanages-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/26\/jet-roi-jet-alum-creates-program-for-jets-to-volunteer-at-orphanages-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"JET ROI:  JET alum creates &#8220;Smile Kids Japan&#8221; program for JETs to volunteer at orphanages in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20100925a1.html\">this article<\/a> from <strong><em>The Japan Times<\/em><\/strong> on Fukui JET alum <strong>Mike Maher-King<\/strong> who started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smilekidsjapan.org\/\"><strong>Smile Kids Japan<\/strong><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smilekidsjapan.org\/\">www.smilekidsjapan.org<\/a>), a web-based network that enables JETs to volunteer at orphanages around Japan.\u00a0 The idea came from Mike&#8217;s own experience volunteering at an orphanage in his area, which he then expanded to bring other JET alums to the orphanage as well.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the URL for the article:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20100925a1.html\">http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20100925a1.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Also of note, the article is by a JET alum journalist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jodygodoy.com\/\"><strong>Jody Godoy<\/strong><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Examples like this do a wonderful job of demonstrating the Return on Investment that Japan continues to reap from the JET Programme and its alumni.\u00a0 If you have other examples to share, please <strong>email them to jetwit@jetwit.com<\/strong> and we&#8217;ll post them for the JET alum community and others to read about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this article from The Japan Times on Fukui JET alum Mike Maher-King who started Smile Kids Japan (www.smilekidsjapan.org), a web-based network that enables JETs to volunteer at orphanages around Japan.\u00a0 The idea came from Mike&#8217;s own experience volunteering at an orphanage in his area, which he then expanded to bring other JET alums [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[282,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jet-roi","category-volunteer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3zM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13753,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750\/revisions\/13753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}