Volunteer

There are volunteers in various fields registered with the association taking active part in international exchange and cooperation. The association cordially welcomes you to register as a volunteer for the association.

Host Families

There are about 350 volunteer host families registered with the association. They are deepening international friendship by hosting delegation members from sister/friendship cities and students attending the Japan Foundation Japanese Language Institute. At least one room is requested to be provided exclusively to the guest while he or she stays at your house. Often, even after the guest returns to his/her country, the friendship continues with their host families.

Foreign language expertise is not necessary to be a volunteer host.

Volunteer Interpreters / Translators

Presently, there are more than 500 volunteers interpreting and translating through SAGA in various languages including English, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, Indonesian, Tagalog, Malaysian, Thai, Bengali, Greek, Bikol, Hindi and Arabian. Among other things, they provide assistance at exchange activities with visiting delegations from sister/friendship cities, support foreign residents of the city, and translate information booklets on daily life.

Volunteers are available if you require assistance involving translation or interpretation. To request assistance, please contact the association well in advance and inform SAGA of the date and place of the event for which translation/interpretation is needed, the content to be translated/interpreted and the difficulty level of that content. Informing SAGA of the content difficulty level is particularly important as the volunteers' proficiencies vary.

Event Volunteers

Since July 2006, we have begun recruiting volunteers for SAGA events.

We are currently looking for individuals who can:

teach about or demonstrate cultural arts (foreign or Japanese) such as calligraphy, tea ceremony, cooking, music etc.
speak on the importance of and approaches to supporting foreign residents and promoting cross cultural understanding.
those who can teach Japanese or foreign languages as a volunteer.
plan and organize various exchange programs or lectures in cooperation with the SAGA staff.

Registration

To register to be a volunteer, please fill out one of the form below and send it to the SAGA Secretariat.To send the form by electronically, please download the Word file version, fill it out and e-mail it to us as an attachment. You can also print out the pdf version of the form, fill it out and send it to us by fax (048-887-1505) or regular mail.

＊ All the files above are written in Japanese