About Care the World

Care the World was founded by Nora Kohri in 1988. The website has been running since 1998. 

Care the World has been supporting the Japanese community overseas as well as the foreign community in Japan through providing information related to childbirth practice and childcare practice of various countries. 

Care the World has information on over 60 countries and publishes booklets on childbirth and childcare of each country. The information on childbirth covers topics such as; how do you find a doctor?, prenatal care, birth choices, hospital stay, postnatal care etc. For Japan, it is All you need to know about birth in Japan. The information on childcare consists of topics such as; doctors who speak English/Japanese, common illness and disease and how to prevent them, treatment practice, immunization schedule, what to bring from your home country, child rearing practice, how to find a babysitter, preschools for the child, what to do with the language etc.

Nora Kohri is an Overseas Birth and Childcare Consultant, an International Medical Social Worker, and a Bilingual Education consultant.

Places lived ......   She was born in Japan, but had lived in many countries. She lived in Bronx, New York during her elementary school years. She moved back to Japan and spent middle school there. She spent her high school and college years in Toronto, Canada. She returned to Japan and lived there for 5 years. After that she moved to Singapore and lived there for 6 years. Then back to Japan and lived there for 7 years. Since 2001, she has been living in New York.

Education and Career .......   Her interest in working with people who are less fortunate began while she was studying in University of Toronto. She majored in sociology and urban studies. This led her to work with children, women, elders, physically challenged, sick, immigrants, and native Indians in the urban setting. She also minored in criminology to work with the adolescents who often were in trouble with the law.

In Tokyo, Japan, she worked as a counselor for the English speaking community. She dealt with issues such as international marriage, culture shock, stress, loneliness, depression, suicide etc.

In Singapore, she worked in hospitals and clinics as a medical interpreter, specializing in the field of obstetrics, gynecology, and pediatrics. At the same time, she began her research on overseas birth and child rearing practice. 

After her return to Japan in 1993, she gave lectures, seminars, wrote articles, went on interviews, went on radios as an overseas birth and childcare consultant which she continues up until this day. She shares the life of women living overseas, having birth away from home and raising babies in foreign countries. She represents Japanese children who were raised overseas and returning home. In order to help families who are planning to live overseas with small children, she travels to various countries and visit hospitals, talk with the medical professionals and listens to the problems the Japanese communities are facing in living overseas.

She volunteered as a counselor at crisis pregnancy center in Japan.

Today, along with her long established career as an overseas birth and childcare consultant, she studies at Columbia University, working towards her masters in Social Work. She is expected to graduate in 2004.

Publication ......  In 1993, she published the book, Birth of the World, in 1994, Childcare of the World, both written in Japanese. As a bilingual education consultant, in 2002, she had published a book on How to raise a Bilingual Child. With her wealth of knowledge on moving, in 1999, she published a book called, Starting your New Life Abroad. In 1997, she wrote a book called, Life with a Maid  for mothers raising children in third world countries.

Family.....  She has a son who is born in Japan, and a daughter who is born in Singapore,  attending the local school here in New York.

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