Kangaroo House

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    Kangaroo House Aims To Make Everyone A Hero

    Kangaroo House is a group home facility in Kaizuka, Osaka Prefecture, that aims to make everyone a hero. Kangaroo House is operated by Cangaroo K.K. It is registered as a residential support service for people with intellectual, mental, or physical disabilities. It’s hard to track down information on this Kangaroo House, a name given to many organizations in Japan, and I don’t know why it chose a kangaroo as the symbol of its group home services, caring for residents with various disabilities and providing daily life support. As noted in many posts, Japanese companies often use a kangaroo to symbolize their operations because the marsupial’s pouch commonly symbolizes protection and…

  • A Kangaroo Started From A Whisper That Now Shouts Out Loud

    Kangaroo House in Kyoto is a free school for kids who don’t want to attend formal classes and named because of a child’s whisper “to be a kangaroo so I can hide in Mum’s pocket,” according to a report on the organization. Kangaroo House got its name from a child’s remark: “If I were a kangaroo, I could jump free and hide in my mother’s pocket when anxious.” Kangaroo House markets itself as a “mother’s pouch” for anxious kids: lessons by day, emotional charging by heart. Operators chose the kangaroo motif to signal a place that protects, carries and recharges worried children–literally invoking the pouch as a comfort metaphor. NPO…