Recruiting for TOMODACHI Summer 2016 SoftBank Leadership Program

Recruiting high school students from Tohoku now!

Fully funded by the SoftBank Group, the TOMODACHI Summer 2016 SoftBank Leadership Program will take place from July 21, 2016 to August 11, 2016 (dates are tentative) and will send 100 Japanese high school students from the disaster affected prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima to the University of California, Berkeley for an intensive three-week workshop focused on global leadership development and community service. The goal is for the participants to utilize what they learned on the program to strengthen their local communities in Tohoku and to become active leaders after returning to Japan.

During this program the students will explore methods for contributing to their local communities and be exposed to projects led by young people in the United States to inspire them to take action, while gaining a further understanding of American society and culture through homestays and exchanges with American high school students. In addition, this program will send six professionals from nonprofit organizations from the three prefectures to enable further support for the students’ activities following their return.

Interested students are encouraged to apply for the program via the link below. The application deadline is March 31, 2016.  Participants will be selected at the end of May 2016.

• To Apply, click here　(Japanese only)