Empowering Sick Children through Sports: NPO Founder - Kitano Hanako
RISING · Season 8 · Episode 10
Across Japan, over 250 thousand children consistently miss out on school and other shared peer-group experiences due to chronic medical and physical conditions. In 2016, Kitano Hanako built upon her own experiences of similar hardship to found an organization that has so far helped some 1,300 such children to unlock their potential through sports and placements with professional and university sports teams.
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Season
8
Episode
10
Air Date
19/Oct/2022
Air Time
—
Runtime
28 min
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Across Japan, over 250 thousand children consistently miss out on school and other shared peer-group experiences due to chronic medical and physical conditions. In 2016, Kitano Hanako built upon her own experiences of similar hardship to found an organization that has so far helped some 1,300 such children to unlock their potential through sports and placements with professional and university sports teams.
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