{"id":392,"date":"2010-03-07T14:32:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T05:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jambointernational.com\/wordpress.php\/?p=392"},"modified":"2010-03-07T14:32:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T05:32:56","slug":"english-jambo-writeup-in-httptokyo-green-blog-com-february-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/english-jambo-writeup-in-httptokyo-green-blog-com-february-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMBO Writeup in Tokyo Green Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What follows is a copy of an <a href=\"http:\/\/tokyo-green-blog.com\/files\/4e344d730abf8ab31451a33bff5060d2-9.html\">article in Tokyo Green Blog<\/a> posted in February 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jambointernational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ShibusawaJan71.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jambointernational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ShibusawaJan71-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ShibusawaJan7\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ShibusawaJan71-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ShibusawaJan71-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>David Howenstein and JAMBO International Center<\/p>\n<p>Recently, on a late winter afternoon, I was finally able to catch up with David Howenstein for a sit-down at the Takadanobaba Starbucks.  David, who comes from St. Louis and has been in Japan for 20 years, is the founder and director of JAMBO International Center located here in Tokyo. He started JAMBO (which means \u201cGreetings!\u201d in Swahili) in 1996 to \u201cencourage people to reconnect with nature while helping others.\u201d The original format was to aid Africa  through sponsoring charitable activities, and to experience nature.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since then it has evolved into a \u201chiking and helping\u201d format, which David sums up as Having Fun Doing Good. He explained that people in Japan often envision volunteerism as \u201cserious\u201d and not much fun, and that was something he&#8217;s set out to correct.<\/p>\n<p>David\u2019s vision stresses environmental interaction on three levels: natural, social and internal.<br \/>\nTo accomplish this JAMBO holds around six events every month.<br \/>\nThese include one or two charity events, three hikes, and one or two environmental restoration events where participants can experience volunteerism hands-on.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental restoration events where JAMBO members and friends can take part include river and ocean cleanup with organizations like Arakawa Clean Aid (http:\/\/www.cleanaid.jp\/index.html). Other work involves cooperation with various sato-yama projects and the following three restoration organizations:<\/p>\n<p>Shu(http:\/\/www.shu.or.jp\/profile\/profile.html)<br \/>\nFoEJapan (http:\/\/www.foejapan.org\/satoyama\/activity\/index.html), and JUON (http:\/\/juon.univcoop.or.jp\/).<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for a way to make a difference and get involved, check out JAMBO. Guests and new members are always welcome.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.JAMBOinternational.com\/<\/p>\n<p>And thanks to David Howenstein for taking time to share his vision.<br \/>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What follows is a copy of an article in Tokyo Green Blog posted in February 2010. David Howenstein and JAMBO International Center Recently, on a late winter afternoon, I was finally able to catch up with David Howenstein for a sit-down at the Takadanobaba Starbucks. David, who comes from St. Louis and has been in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}