{"id":20843,"date":"2011-07-26T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T21:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=20843"},"modified":"2011-07-26T20:27:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T00:27:41","slug":"jet-alum-works-with-japan-america-society-of-hawaii-to-run-camp-program-for-tohoku-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/26\/jet-alum-works-with-japan-america-society-of-hawaii-to-run-camp-program-for-tohoku-students\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum works with Japan-America Society of Hawaii to run camp program for Tohoku students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jashawaii.org\/jpnaid3.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20845\" title=\"RJKlogo\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RJKlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RJKlogo.jpg 282w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RJKlogo-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>**************<\/p>\n<p>I recently learned that former <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jetaahawaii.org\/\">JETAA Hawaii<\/a> President Kelsey Soma Turek (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnto.go.jp\/eng\/location\/regional\/fukuoka\/index.html\">Fukuoka<\/a>-ken, 2005-07)<\/strong>, who by day is an Education Program Director at the <a href=\"http:\/\/jashawaii.org\"><strong>Japan-America Society of Hawaii<\/strong><\/a>, is involved in the implementation of a program in Hawaii aimed at helping out students from Tohoku.\u00a0 In Kelsey&#8217;s words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The <a href=\"http:\/\/jashawaii.org\/jpnaid3.asp\"><strong>Rainbow for Japan Kids<\/strong><\/a> project is aimed at providing positive  educational and cultural experiences for children in Iwate, Miyagi, and  Fukushima prefectures who have experienced some sort of  trauma\/devastation\/loss from the Great East Earthquake in March. The  organization at which I work (Japan-America Society of Hawaii) is  responsible for planning this project, working with supporters in Japan  and Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>As Educational Program Director, I am personally in charge  of arranging many of the activities (team development courses at Kualoa  Ranch, Camp Erdman on Oahu&#8217;s North Shore, Kilauea Military Camp on the  Big Island of Hawaii) for the 20 middle school students during their  10-day stay beginning tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Generous donations make this project  possible. We hope to do this quarterly over the next year. More info can  be found at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jashawaii.org\/jpnaid3.asp\">http:\/\/jashawaii.org\/jpnaid3.asp<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Do you know of a JET alum working for the benefit of the Tohoku region through the organization where they work?\u00a0 E-mail jetwit [at] jetwit.com to share their story for posting on JETwit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>************** I recently learned that former JETAA Hawaii President Kelsey Soma Turek (Fukuoka-ken, 2005-07), who by day is an Education Program Director at the Japan-America Society of Hawaii, is involved in the implementation of a program in Hawaii aimed at helping out students from Tohoku.\u00a0 In Kelsey&#8217;s words: &#8220;The Rainbow for Japan Kids project is [&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":[305,378,102,304,282,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-outreach","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-japan-society-round-up","category-notable-jet-alums","category-jet-roi","category-traveltourism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-5qb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843","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=20843"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20847,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843\/revisions\/20847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}