On Air: Fukuoka City Information/2014.01.11(Sat)/09:00～

In Fukuoka City, the After-school Program Center is now accepting applications for 2014.

The After-school Program Center is a service for households where parents or other members of the household are not available during the day due to work and/or other engagements. It provides children in the 1st through 5th grade of elementary school a place to go after classes finish but before their parents, or caretakers, return home. There are also options for children in the 6th grade at some clubs, so please check the information pamphlet called Notice Regarding After-school Programs available at each elementary school after-school program center.

It costs ¥3,000 per month to be in the program. Snack foods and overtime services are available for an additional fee. Applications are being accepted until Friday, February 7.

Please see the Notice Regarding After-school Programs brochure or check the Fukuoka City homepage at www.city.fukuoka.lg.jp for more information. After learning about it, please inquire with the after-school program center at your child’s elementary school.

Next is an announcement about the Kego Park Safety Center that opened on December 25 of last year.

The Kego Park Safety Center in the northwest corner of the park offers citizen consultation on topics such as safety patrol, juvenile delinquency prevention, and other such community development topics. Please make use of the center if you have any questions or concerns. Also, be sure to have someone capable of communicating in Japanese with you when you go.

The center was established as an annex to the Tenjin Keibu police box, and is a focal point of joint efforts between communities, the police and Fukuoka City to promote and maintain public safety in the Tenjin area.

Furthermore, if you apply in advance, the center's public conference space is available for use, free of charge, to local organizations offering seminars on protecting oneself, traffic safety and other such public safety and community development topics. In order to use the meeting room space, please download a permission request form from the Fukuoka City homepage and submit the completed form to the Civic Safety Section of city government no later than two weeks prior to the date on which you are requesting to use the space.

For further information, please call the Civic Safety Section at 092-711-4054.