Kiyotaka Hirose is a Japanese pianist. He started to learn piano when he was five and dreamed of becoming a pianist since then. He gave performances regularly at many famous concerts and held his own piano recital. In 2003, Kiyotaka was received by the mayor of Vienna in the City Hall.

As 2012 is the 40th anniversary of Sino-Japan friendly diplomatic relations, we are very honored to have invited Kiyotaka Hirose give his wonderful volunteer performace in Shanghai Children’s Medical Center for kids on May 31st, and at the Make a Difference Day closing ceremony on June 2nd！

New to Hands On Shanghai (HOS)?  Want to know more and get involved?  Please come to our volunteer orientation！

Both “old” and “new” volunteers are welcome to participate. You can expect to get a better understanding of HOS and our programs. After the orientation, there is free talk time for you to relax, make new friends and clear the last questions before getting started volunteering. Training will be conducted in Chinese and English.

HandsOn Shanghai is now holding two new volunteer orientations per month.
One is held on the second Thursday of the month in downtown Shanghai, in Changning District. The second orientation is held in our Minhang Volunteer Center on the last Saturday of every month.

You can sign-up for our orientations through our website calendar just like for any other volunteer activity.

Detailed contact information of our onsite coordinator and the address and time of the orientation will be sent to you in the confirmation email after successfully signing up.

To celebrate a great start into the new year HandsOn Shanghai held the first team building event on February 18th for all its team leaders and education volunteers. The theme of the activity was clay designing. Two team leaders, who are very good at clay designing, first taught the others some basic skills, such as making little flowers etc. Then the volunteers had some time to practice the new art for themselves. Some made beautiful glittering butterflies under the instruction of one of the teachers, others totally followed their own imagination and created beautiful flower vases, colorful birds, cute ducks and frogs, gracious giraffes etc. Time flew by so fast and everyone had a fun time.
When the creative part of the day finished we all had a pizza lunch together which made the morning complete.

After the team building volunteer team leaders were invited to stay and participate in a workshop about a new HandsOn Shanghai elderly care center project called “Wonderful Moments”.