ARI Participants gave their first presentation of the school year this week. Each participant gave a presentation about their home cultures, agricultural practices, and various social issues they experience. The audience was lively as well, asking many questions to each
According to the preventive measures is declared from August 8th in Tochigi prefecture, we suspend accepting visitors until August 31st.
Thank you for your understanding.
You can now watch the documentary A Football Garden for Sierra Leone on our official YouTube channel!
This documentary portrays Pastor Mambud Samai and his organization, the Single Leg Amputee Sports Association (SLASA). Mambud is the association’s program coordinator and a 2018 graduate of the Rural Leaders Training Program at the Asian Rural Institute.
“In Sierra Leone, many youths live with amputations in the wake of the civil war,” said Mambud at the beginning of his training at ARI. “Using the sport of soccer, I work to empower these young adults and give them hope. I also offer classes on computers, financing, agri-science, nutrition, and food security.”
Following his training, Mambud started expanding agricultural activities with the amputees in Freetown. The documentary shows some of the first steps they take to make their vision of a garden and soccer field possible.
This film was created by German team Dr. Donata Elschenbroich and Dr. Otto Schweitzer, documentary filmmakers with over thirty years of expertise in educational films from a cross-cultural perspective. Donata has been volunteering regularly at ARI since 2011. The film was developed in 2019 as a joint venture between Donata and ARI’s Graduate Outreach Coordinator Steven Cutting, working together on the concept and research as they visited various places in Sierra Leone.
After filming, the LUSH Foundation in the UK further funded constructions on the football field, and SLASA continued planting, harvesting, and receiving visiting schoolchildren. European supporters have pledged to provide new prostheses, training, medical supplies, and buildings, helping SLASA to gain claim ownership of the land. SLASA is also supported by the United Church of Canada, a supporter of ARI.
The Asian Rural Institute (ARI) is seeking a qualified candidate to serve as contract part-time staff member.
The position is for a Japanese-speaking accountant to join our General Affairs Section.
The contract starts from January 2022.
Please find details from our recruitment page (Only in Japanese): パートタイム職員募集
The photo roaster of class of 2021 is published!
Please read from here : Class of 2021
For the 2021 Rural Leaders Training Program, we have invited 24 candidates from overseas.
Their arrival is yet to be decided as the suspension of Japanese visas continues due to COVID-19 measures.
However, three Japanese participants have joined ARI this April and already started their training on campus.
We hope that the worldwide spread of the coronavirus will end so that all overseas candidates can join our studies as soon as possible.
According to the state of emergency is declared from April 25th, we suspend accepting visitors from the target areas.
If you wish to visit from outside of the target areas, please check the following points before applying.
・ We ask you to measure your body temperature for two weeks before your visit, so please apply more than two weeks ago from the date you would like to visit.
・ All applicants are given an orientation in advance using online conference tools such as zoom, so please cooperate.
The date of arrival for 28 overseas participants of the 2021 ARI Rural Leaders Training Program has not yet been decided due to the suspension of visa issuance procedures for Japan due to COVID-19.
However, three Japanese participants have joined ARI this year. We are delighted to welcome them to ARI and will hold an Opening Ceremony on Friday 9 April. We regret to inform you that due to COVID-19, we will not be able to welcome any guests from outside this year.
The ceremony will be streamed live on ARI’s official Facebook page, so please join us there, or follow it on your news feed after the ceremony.
You can watch the ceremony live from the link below:
https://www.facebook.com/Asian.Rural.Institute
We look forward to celebrating the Japanese participants’ opening ceremony together with you!
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of euodoō – Journal of Rural Future Study.
Euodoō is ARI’s annual journal, presenting insightful analysis, essays, and ideas from people connected to ARI. The thesis papers and essays in Euodoō nr. 5 link the topics of biodiversity, food security, and family farming with the COVID-19 pandemic.
We hope the ideas and research in this edition will reach many supporters, graduates, and fans of ARI.
Among the contributors are ARI staff and 1999 graduate Zacivolu ‘Acivo’ Rhakho Dozo and 2004 graduate Makito Fujii. There are thesis papers by Dr. Kae Sekine of Family Farming Platform Japan; and by Patrick Trail, Yuwadee Danmalidoi, and Dr. Boonsong Thansrithong of ECHO Asia Regional Impact Center in Thailand. Further contributions were provided by Dr. Sue Hall Pyke (University of Melbourne, Uniting Church in Australia’s Sophia’s Spring) and Raymond Epp (Menno Village, Naganuma). As usual, we present a text by founding member Dr. Toshihiro Takami.
You can download the digital edition as a PDF here or from our Downloads page. A print edition is available upon request (JPY 800 + shipping):
Tel: 0287-36-3111
Email: [email protected]
Due to the uncertainty of visas being issued for overseas students in relation to COVID-19 restrictions, the 2021 ARI Rural Leaders Training Program (RLTP) will be making several adjustments throughout the year.
The program will currently begin on campus as scheduled with three Japanese participants. Please watch over them warmly.
We hope that over the course of the year, we will gradually be joined by our overseas participants as well.
We appreciate our extended ARI community during these times and continue to look forward to your engagement and support towards the ARI RLTP.
Regarding the Opening Ceremony, we will hold it on April 9th (Fri) in a restricted way. We appreciate your participation in the ceremony via live streaming. We will post the detail on our home page.
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