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March Meeting Report

The “Visit Hina-Dolls’ Festival in Kanazawahakkei” event took place on Sunday, March 2. Unfortunately, the FSC students canceled their participation the day before. However, the volunteer members, along with one of their spouses, enjoyed the event. They visited

April Meeting

Teaching English at JVDCBDo you speak English? Then you can teach English!  That is, you can help visually-impaired adults build up their English skills as they retrain for jobs at the Japan Vocational Development Center for the Blind

VVI’s 50th Anniversary in 2025

In 2025, CWAJ celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Volunteers for Visually Impaired (VVI) Committee providing unique and meaningful programs in English for Japanese with a visual impairment. Please check out our beautiful slider, on the top of

International Women’s Day Report

CWAJ celebrated International Women’s Day by holding a well-attended talk event for the general public to increase our visibility. The event was held March 6 at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, with the title Inclusion Through Innovation:

SPRING FUNDRAISING DRIVE

Would you like to help increase the donations CWAJ gets for Scholarships? Please come to one of our two Donations parties! On April 17 and April 18, the Donations committee will be holding parties where we get together

Spotlight on Momoyo Kamimura (Momo)

“Travel time to New York will be shortened to 40 minutes.”A thirteen-hour flight from Tokyo to New York could be less than an hour through space travel? … such a magical thought … The university space start-up was

VVI Announcements

Teaching English at JVDCBDo you speak English? Then you can teach English!  That is, you can help visually-impaired adults build up their English skills as they retrain for jobs at the Japan Vocational Development Center for the Blind

March Meeting

FSC held a GM on Tuesday, February 4 from 20:00 to 21:00. During the meeting we discussed the future programs for 2025. Many ideas were presented by the volunteer members including outings, visiting museums and factories, online programs,

April Meeting

Date:  Not confirmed yet, but probably third or fourth Wednesday of April.Venue:  St. Joseph’s Home for Children By the time you read this we will have had our special Valentine Day’s Classon February 12. Our next class at