The Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement-International (Public Interest Incorporated Foundation)

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  Black pine trees uprooted and dikes wiped out by tsunami

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  Volunteers from all over Japan come to help every month.

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  From sowing up to planting preparations are done by local farmers.

[ Organization Profile ]

OISCA is international non-governmental organization founded in 1961. Equipped with over five decades of working experience at grassroots level, we launched the Coastal Forest Restoration Project shortly after the Great East Japan Earthquake. We are engaged in helping restore the coastal forest, as well as prompting employment for earthquake-affected farmers in collaboration with donors and volunteers from all over Japan as well as the local government and residents.

[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]

Donations will be used in restoring the 100 hectare coastal forest in Natori city, Miyagi prefecture lost by tsunami by raising seedling and planting 500,000 black pine trees; providing support for living expenses and jobs for over 11,000 earthquake-affected farmers; and silvicultural activities which will be continued until 2033.

Our beautification activities working as a team and fantastic town development

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  The Osaka Amemura team is operating our activities.

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  Everything you need for cleaning is supplied! Come and join us – just bring yourself!

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  Anybody can participate in our activity freely and at any time!

[ Organization Profile ]

Our organization, which was launched in Harajuku, Tokyo in 2002, focuses on litter pickup activities around town. Wide-ranging individuals of all ages including industrial firms participate and there are currently a total of 87 teams (77 in Japan and 10 abroad). We strive to globally convey a litter pickup culture which is unique to Japan and bequeath the same to younger generations, who will play important roles as a legacy.

[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]

We intend to use the money to fund expenses for cleaning activities by existing eight teams in the Kansai region; i.e. bibs, garbage bag production costs, purchase costs for tongs, bulk waste treatment fees and equipment maintenance fees, etc. and the costs needed to establish new teams, both domestically and abroad.

Teaching all children with disabilities how to swim at municipal swimming pools

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  ©Pool Volunteer
  The goal is to swim 25 meters freestyle non-stop!

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  ©Pool Volunteer
  They are on wheelchairs in their daily lives but mermaids in the pool!

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  ©Pool Volunteer
  Enjoying a swimming pool with volunteers.

[ Organization Profile ]

Swimming is the ideal sport for the health and rehabilitation of disabled children. We are engaged in volunteer activities to support such children's desire to swim and assist to ensure their swimming experience is enjoyable and safe.

[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]

We would like to use donations for wheelchairs for use in swimming pools that enable disabled children to move around safely and prepare poolside safety mats to help them accomplish their dream; i.e. “Being able to swim”, and conduct training activities to familiarize participants with the knowledge and skills to take care of disabled people nationwide.

Running through the town for patrol! We help develop a safe and secure town with Patrol Running activities.

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  Patrol Running to keep children coming home from school safe

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  Patrolling the vicinity of the railway station, where street crime rates are high

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  Many female members are active nationwide

[ Organization Profile ]

Patrol Running, involving town patrol activities by running, was launched in 2013 and activities are currently performed in 28 prefectures nationwide.
We promote efforts to achieve a safe local community where citizens take initiatives under the slogan: “Accomplishing a town where children, women and senior citizens can live with peace of mind”.

[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]

Japan is a safe country, yet the number of crime victims is endless and many suffer. We would like to use the donations carefully to ingrain “crime-prevention style patrolling via running” nationwide intended to eradicate street crimes.

Supporting local environmental conservation activities

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  ©NAREC
  Environmental conservation activities in which both adults and children can casually participate

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  ©NAREC
  Volunteer activities working only on the mornings of holidays so that you don’t get tired.

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  ©NAREC
  We also contribute to local organizations by providing heavy physical work such as mowing and digging.

[ Organization Profile ]

To conserve, restore and maintain your immediate natural environment and develop people and society that feel comfortable in such environment, we are engaged in activities such as fostering human resources for environmental conservation, conserving and revitalizing the immediate natural environment and stimulating rural districts nationwide.

[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]

We would like to use the donations for the Osaka Rangers’ Project (http://rangersproject.jp/project/osaka/), which is our collaborative effort to protect biodiversity within Osaka prefecture.
Locations: Osaka Castle Park, Akutagawa Ryokuchi Park
Examples of our activity: Forest Conservation within the Osaka Castle grounds in Osaka Castle Park. Let’s finish before the plum blossom season coming up!

Delivering clean water and a toilet to people living in developing countries

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  ©WaterAid/ Eliza Powell
  Women and children collecting unsanitary water

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  ©WaterAid/ Ernest Randriarimalala
  Children happily bathing in clean water

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  ©WaterAid/ Ernest Randriarimalala
  “This is the moment we have awaited for seventy years” said Raza

[ Organization Profile ]

In today’s world, 844 million people lack access to safe water and 2.3 billion people lack access to an appropriate toilet. WaterAid Japan is striving to create a world where all people everywhere can use clean water and sanitation by 2030.

[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]

About 800 children die daily due to using only unsanitary water and without access to adequate sanitation. We would like to use your donations carefully to deliver water and toilet facilities to people living in the twenty-eight nations where WaterAid Japan is in active.

A place supporting the lives of children with life-threatening illnesses.

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  Japan’s first community-based children’s hospice

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  Have various experiences through playing with brothers, sisters and family members.

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  Every moment for children that they can never enjoy at the hospital

[ Organization Profile ]

The Tsurumi Children’s Hospice (TCH), Japan’s first community-based hospice for children, opened in spring 2016 in Tsurumi ward, Osaka. Whatever illness its children may have, they value enjoying the same experience as their peers of the same generation and every moment spent there. The TCH is a second home for children with life-threatening diseases and their families, who support them to enhance their quality of life.

[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]

Even children with illnesses require various experiences for growth and development. They also learn various things in an environment capable of playing and studying with children in the local community. We will prepare a space of “Asobi Souzou Hiroba”, where the TSURUMI Children’s Hospice lies as a playground where all children can play with peace of mind and foster human resources to watch over such children.

An NPO engaged in community welfare such as child poverty

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  We aim to achieve a society where everybody can live in their local community by their own values.

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  We strive to solve problems such as child poverty.

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  We are engaged in activities such as operating children’s cafeterias, providing study support and preventing high school dropouts.

[ Organization Profile ]

We provide various support, including livelihood support for disabled children and adults in the local community, study support for developmentally disabled individuals and students unwilling to go to school and employment support for young people, etc. Currently, we are also tackling child poverty and seeking a solution to cope with complicated social issues, while collaborating with various organizations.

[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]

We aim to achieve a local community where every child can live naturally by their own values in their local community, through activities such as operating children’s cafeterias and providing study support.
We would like to use your donations to provide the support children need, whenever they need it and as much as they need, to solve the child poverty issue.

Support for children with incurable diseases and their families

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  【Pre-race】Let’s boost the number of fellow runners through our running events!

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  【Race day】Children suffering from intractable diseases and their families cheering for you every 10 kilometers on the sidelines

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  【Post-race】We will present you with a visual record of your finest moment while running toward your goal!

[ Organization Profile ]

Our slogan is “Don’t worry. You are not alone”. We promote our activities that provide families facing intractable diseases with time, space and opportunities to spend with smiles from the heart, connected with the social world.

[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]

Your donations will be used for activities to support children with intractable or incurable diseases, such as family vacation, exchange opportunities with local people, charity events and constructing facilities for respite care, as well as briefing sessions and campaigns to realize them.

Supporting hospitalized children and their zest for life

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  ©CliniClowns Japan
  Seeking to deliver a moment that moves hospitalized children’s emotions

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  ©CliniClowns Japan
  CliniClowns remaining considerate of the feeling of the moment of children who are hospitalized

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  ©CliniClowns Japan
  The moment when all the family smile, forgetting about the illness, even for a second

[ Organization Profile ]

“Delivering all children the moment of being a child”
Wishing to deliver the “moment of being a child” for children who are hospitalized. Based on this aspiration, we provide a program dispatching CliniClowns to children’s wards of hospitals throughout Japan from Osaka and fostering children’s zest for living through play and involvement with children.

[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]

We would like to use your donations for our CliniClowns dispatching operations, where CliniClowns visit children’s ward on a regular basis and lecture presentations and charity events to achieve a society where all children can be themselves and anyone can smile through “Red Nose”.

Supporting single-parent families and families with disabled children in Osaka through sick child care

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  We provide reassurance and child care services for parents, even when their children suddenly develop a fever.

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  Our childcare staff taking care of sick children while giving reassurance

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  Supporting households with children throughout society and forging a chain of mutual cooperation.

[ Organization Profile ]

Aspiring to realize “a society allowing parents to continue working after childbirth without much surprise”, Nobel was established in 2009 as the first mutual aid project offering a home-visit day care service for sick children, which dispatches nursing care staff to children’s homes whenever needed and without fail, even for same-day requests in the Kansai region.
We have been expanding our support toward the goal of establishing a safety net which anyone requiring day care service for sick children can use.

[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]

We will provide a day care service for sick children which is user-friendly to all, including special programs providing our service at 1,000 yen per month, which is about 1/6 of the ordinary rate, for single-parent families with annual income below 3 million yen and providing a day care service for disabled children which require more manpower and there are far outnumbered who provide services than usual at the normal rate.

Job assistance for young unemployed people

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  ©A basic job preparation program, “Job Training”
  Internship program to broaden the view of occupation

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  ©Learning + Independence support: “Manabitasu”
  Helping children to become self-reliant through study and experience

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  ©Career Education Program, “Life Connection”
  designed to prevent social isolation: A workshop where you can learn how to cope with difficulties

[ Organization Profile ]

Amid the young population for the next generation has been decreasing, one in sixteen young people is out of job. Regarding support for unemployed youth as “social investment”, Sodateage Net provides youth with a basic job preparation program, “Job Training” and gives assistance to their parents, as well as study and employment supports to the children of needy families.

[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]

We will use your donation to sustain our “Youth Employment Support Package”, which allows the young people who cannot afford to participate in our “Job Training” (a basic job preparation program for those who have difficulties in finding jobs and preparing themselves for working) without paying their expenses, study support for children of a family with financial difficulties and school visits intended to prevent high school dropouts.

Research into regenerative medicine and drug development using iPS cells

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  ©Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA),Kyoto University
  Professor Shinya Yamanaka who works at CiRA as director

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  ©Shinya Yamanaka, Professor, Kyoto University
  iPS cells anticipated for the application of regenerative medicine and drug development

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  ©Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
  The donated funds are used to hire institute members, 90 percent of whom are on non-regular employment contracts.

[ Organization Profile ]

This is a research institute where Professor Shinya Yamanaka, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2012, works as director. Many researchers and research support staff are dedicated to their research and work to improve the way patients suffering from injuries and diseases are treated.

[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]

Your donation will be used carefully as steady employment of brilliant researchers and research support staff at the CiRA, establishment and protection of intellectual properties on iPS cells, support for research projects for medical applications, dispatch of information on iPS cell research and promotion activities, and furtherance of our stable research activities, etc.

Support for people with cancer and their loved ones

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  ©Cancer Support Community Japan
  A support group where cancer patients talk to each other

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  ©Cancer Support Community Japan
  Training session for specialists providing psychosocial support held in Osaka

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  ©Cancer Support Community Japan
  A cancer prevention leaflet and a rainbow ribbon badge

[ Organization Profile ]

As the Japan affiliate of the Cancer Support Community – the largest international non-profit organization dedicated to providing support to people affected by cancer – we have been engaged in activities in the Kanto region since 2001 and the Kansai region since 2013, providing psychosocial support for people with cancer and their loved ones from professions such as clinical psychotherapists, social workers and nurses in their local communities.

[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]

We intend to use the money raised through the Osaka Marathon to fund efforts to provide professional led psychosocial support for people with cancer, as well as broadly educating people about cancer prevention in the Kansai region, aiming to prevent cancer and create a society where people can retain their quality of life, even if developing the condition.