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In the early 1970s, Sue Coppard organised the first Working Weekends On Organic Farms weekend (the exchange being similar to the kibbutz idea). A few years later whilst travelling, she found that some countries were already operating WWOOF organisations using the acronym Willing Workers On Organic Farms and We’re Welcome On Organic Farms, nowadays some groups use World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. WWOOF means different things to different people, but is understood by many. From these early beginnings, WWOOF grew and there are now many WWOOF organisations around the world, connecting thousands of WWOOF hosts with and thousands of WWOOF volunteers. Each WWOOF group is an independent organisation networking together.
Source from : International WWOOF Network website (http://www.wwoofinternational.org/)
Translation - Japanese 「ウーフ（WWOOF）」って何の略？
1970年代初頭、スー・コッパードがイギリスで初の「有機農場週末ボランティア（Working Weekends On Organic Farms）」を組織した。このボランティアプログラム内で行なわれた「労働力」と「食事・宿泊場所」を交換するという仕組みは、イスラエルのキブツでの手法と似たものである。コッパードはその数年後旅の途中で、他の国々でも団体名の頭文字からウーフ（WWOOF)と呼ばれる組織が既に複数活動していることを知った。それらの組織は、「有機農場で働きたいと思っている人たち（Willing Workers On Organic Farms)」や「有機農場が我々を必要としている（We're Welcome On Organic Farms)」などの名称を持ち、今日では数団体が「世界に広がる有機農場での機会（World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms)」という名称を使っている。同じ組織名を用いていても実は多くの違った名称の団体があるように、ウーフは多くの人々にとって様々な意味合いを持ってはいるが、その仕組みは多数の人々から支持されている。ウーフは発足当初から広まってゆき、今日では世界中にあるウーフの組織が何千ものホストと呼ばれる受け入れ農場を取りまとめ、またそれらのホストとウーファーと呼ばれるボランティア志望者との間を取り結んでいる。個々のウーフ団体は独立した組織ではあるが、互いに情報を共有しながら活動している。
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Years of experience: 16. Registered at ProZ.com: Mar 2007.
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Bio
My native language is Japanese, I was born and grew up in Tokyo, Japan.
I went Reitaku University and was majored in Japanese Language.
I took a Japanese Teaching Ability test, which the country of Japan provides once a year and it's official, and I passed the test in 1998.
I was certifed as Japanese Teacher for both Japanese speaker and foreign language speaker as well.
After I taught Japanese language in a Japanese Language School in Tokyo, Japan, I moved and am living in the USA since 1999.
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As a non-paid member : joined since 2007
As a full member : joined since Nov. 2008
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