The Haddonfield Japan Exchange, the popular student exchange between Kasukabe, Japan and Haddonfield, will be holding their major fundraiser a Sake and Sushi Party and Auction on Saturday, June 13 at the Markeim Art Center located at Lincoln Avenue and Walnut Street from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m.
While many local service organizations, as well as Subaru of America make donations to this non-profit organization, the majority of the needed funds to host the 20 visiting students and two chaperones, is derived from our Sake and Sushi Party and Auction.
The funds raised are used to support the activities for our Japanese teenage guests as well as the hosting Haddonfield Students.
Some of those activities include tours of Haddonfield shopping and historic sites; trips to Philadelphia, New York City, the Jersey shore, and the Amish Country in Pennsylvania; tubing on the Delaware; bowling; visiting the Cowtown Rodeo; and, of course, there is a welcoming party and a farewell dinner held at Tavistock.
In a similar fashion when our students visit Kasukabe, they live with host families and all the daily educational and cultural activities are provided for our students without cost. The students’ from both countries only cost is the airfare to get them to the hosting country. It is the host families that share their homes for two weeks that are the real backbone of the program.
If you would like to find out more about the program, purchase tickets for the Sake and Sushi Party and Auction, or submit bids on items, just get online at www.HJEx.org or contact, Bill Brown, at billbrown08033@aol.com. Tickets are $30.
