Volunteering
Reader S. lives in Gifu-ken and is looking for volunteer work in her area. She also travels to Nagoya on weekends to meet friends, so is looking for volunteer opportunities there too.
She hopes to enter medical school in the autumn of 2007 and would like to have the opportunity to do some kind of volunteer work for at least a year, but has been unable to track down any groups in the Nagoya area that she can contact.
Probably the best place to start for S. is the Nagoya International Center.