Welcome from the FJET Presidents
We are the 2010-2011 FJET Co-Presidents, Cindy Chen and Zachary Everson.
FJET, the Fukui Chapter of National Association of JETs, exists to help you and all Fukui JETs by being the informational hub of a strong community of more than 100 teachers. We strive to achieve this goal by writing useful documents, helping with Fukui Orientation, and organizing various events and trips to help keep you involved during your time in Fukui.
Please come visit us in our FORUM to introduce yourself and ask any questions.
Another great source of information is the FJET Yahoo mailing list. Many community announcements are posted there that may not make it here, so please go ahead and sign up for that. YAHOO GROUP
Welcome to our new 2010 JETs!
We have already seen a good number of new JETs posting in our forums.
To all incomers who have not introduced yourselves - please mosey, meander, or otherwise make your way on over to the forums section and post up something!
FJET is the Fukui chapter of the nationwide AJET group.
Just to brag, We are the best - we have lots of trophies, shirts, and certificates that we made that say so!
We hope you can use this page to answer your questions, alleviate your worries, and lighten your wallets (seriously! we sell a lot of $#|T!)
A simple tip to help get more out of this site is - Don't be afraid to ask questions - we have a highly excited and seemingly trained staff of other JETs to answer any and all questions!
Safe travels!
- 2010-2011 FJET Committee
Our amazing Fundraising :-)
Hello team,
After the last orphanage visit a couple of people were asking me a little about what was happening with the money from the MYC auction so thought I would stick a post up here so that everyone knows what is what :-)
We raised a lot of money, and it is going to be split evenly over the five orphanages in Fukui Ken. We currently visit Fukui Shi, and Tsuruga, with Ono starting this month, but in addition to these three there is an orphanage in Takefu and one in Sabae. The kids at these two are obviously just as in need as those at orphanages we visit, so we are going to divide the money between all the homes.
From there, it is a mixture of the home's and our wishes as to how the money is spent. They obviously now far more than we do what is really needed so their opinion is crucial, however obviously we have ideas on how to spend the money too. In Fukui Shi we have settled for vacuum cleaners - their choice, and a basketball net - our choice. The cleaners will make day to day life better for the kids - saves them from cleaning with clothes like at school, and the basketball net will give them a new toy to play with. I will talk to the other homes once we actually have the cash all collected, so please pay up ASAP!
Thank you again for all your fundraising, you all rock
Mike
ps if you ever have any questions about money or indeed anything please mail me at fjetvolunteer @ gmail dot com anytime :-)
Introducing Smile Kids Japan
Our own Volunteer Coordinator Mike has made some amazing progress with a project that many FJET members participate in. You can read more about it at their new website http://www.smilekidsjapan.org/.
From the website:
We are a recently formed small non-profit group. Our aims are to
* Promote awareness of orphanages across Japan, especially amongst the foreign communities.
* Encourage these communities to set up regular volunteer visits.
* Help show these volunteers how this is possible, with hints, tips, and an overview of everything from setting up the first meeting to keeping up volunteer motivation.
* Ultimately we are aiming for every orphanage in Japan to have a two hour visit once a month.
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